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O’Grady Discusses iPhone Acquisition Strategies for the 29th

First off, snagging an iPhone come the 29th is Jason’s quest, not mine. My cell phone needs still reside around an Amish level wherein I just hope my phone makes and completes a call. If my phone got any simpler, it’d be a butter churn. Still, for those of you who are wondering about the […]

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MacBook Pro

Blu-Ray Read and Write Support in LED MacBook Pro?

Apple doesn’t mention Blu-Ray support with the new MacBook Pro and I was surprised when a new MacBook Pro owner wrote that Toast 8 showed the OEM Matshita UJ-857E drive as having Blu-Ray read and write support. The UJ-857 (no E) was used in some previous MacBook Pros/MacBooks and was often maligned for things like […]

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CPU Crunch: MacBook Pro ‘Santa Rosa’ versus Others running Photoshop, After Effects, Compressor and Motion

As we’ve said before, we are very excited about the new MacBook Pro with the “Santa Rosa” chipset (faster 800MHz frontside bus), faster graphics processor (GeForce 8600M GT), greater main memory capacity (4GB), and greater capacity 7200rpm hard drive option (160GB). In this test session, we focused on applications that push the dual CPU cores. […]

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3D Game Shootout: MacBook Pro ‘Santa Rosa’ versus Others

We’re very excited about the new MacBook Pro with the “Santa Rosa” chipset (faster 800MHz frontside bus), faster GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor, greater main memory capacity (4GB), and bigger 7200rpm hard drive option (160GB). We’ll be posting a series of test results during the next few days. We’re starting with a page comparing the […]

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Podcast

PowerPage Podcast Episode 46

Episode 46 of the PowerPage Podcast is now available. You can either download it from the iTunes Store or directly (54’37, 21.88MB, AAC). Your panel: Jason O’Grady, Rob Parker, Youngmoo Kim and special guest Ben Rudolph from Paralles. Topics include: the release of new Santa Rosa, LED-backlit MacBook Pros and the release of Windows virtualization […]