I recently noticed that the LCD bezel around the display on my PowerBook G4 17-inch has been leaving faint marks around the edges of the top case. The marks are most noticeable on the front areas of the wrist rests but is even starting to appear on the speaker grilles. A little probing uncovered what […]
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An Archive reader writes, “Apple has released a document on how to use the new iPod NoteReader .” The highlights: you can link to other notes, or to tracks on the iPod, or to dynamically generated playlists. It handles 1,000 notes, up to 4K each, and caches up to 64K of notes in memory so […]
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PowerBook UK Market Share Up
MacWorld UK quotes IDC numbers that indicate that Apple’s notebook marketshare has grown in the UK: Apple’s UK notebook market share climbed from 2.8 per cent to 3.4 per cent year-on-year. In total across all vendors, notebook sales grew 14.7 per cent year-on-year, so Apple’s growth in that market exceeded industry averages. Desktop sales, however, […]
KODAWARISAN (dr-mip) has posted takeapart pictures of the Super Tangent iPod shuffle ripoff.
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How-To: Dissect Your PowerBook Battery
Cult of Mac‘s Leander Kahney: “It’s complete surprise to me that the iBook’s battery pack is filled with ordinary-looking rechargeable batteries. Apparently this is also the case with the PowerBook. And I thought they’de be filled with a rectangular battery — dense and compact — like the iPod. It’s so un-high-tech.” Read more at Cult […]