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Hardware PowerBook 17-Inch

PowerBook G4 17": The First 100 Seconds

No wonder creative types love Macs. When Apple does something truly brilliant, you can fall in love with a machine in an instant, like the perfect paintbrush or sweetest, favorite electric guitar. And the 17″ PowerBook is one of the best things Cupertino’s ever done: the dream finally realized of a uncompromising desktop machine that’s […]

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Hardware Mobile Phone

Sony Ericsson T610 Feedback

RWong writes: I’ve own a T610. They came out in Hong Kong about a week ago. As per your previous user report, the sound quality does suck. A lot of hissing in the background and its picks up a lot of background noise (Similar to the Sony Z28 that I used before as well). Radiation […]

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Hardware PowerBook 17-Inch

PowerBook 17-Inch Hissing and Capacitors

It’s possible that a capacitor might be faulty on the 17-inch PowerBooks. This problem sounds familiar (no pun intended) to the hissing problem that I’ve had with my old airport. There is a fix for the airport capacitor problem here. It’s easy to tell if a capacitor is blown on a board. The physical appearance […]

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Water-Cooled G4 Runs Under 30 Decibels

I bet you didn’t know this – but there’s another company interested in reducing the noise of G4’s with great temperatures. Dangerden! I’ve been working with Danger den closely to create the first ever water-cooled Macintosh kit. We’re still in a lot of prototyping – but I thought I’d give you a peek at one […]

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Hardware PowerBook 15-Inch

Aluminum PowerBook 15-Inch Waiting in the Wings

The PowerPage has received an interesting new update on the status of the long awaited Aluminum PowerBook 15-inch. The original TiBook has already migrated to its new Aluminum skin and is just waiting for the existing Titanium models to sell out. Word from a reliable source is that Apple has the new Aluminum PowerBook 15s […]