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Bluetooth iPod: More Cost, Less Battery

Infoworld’s Tech Watch is covering the Bluetooth iPod watch: I met with Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG and asked him if he heard anything about enabling iPod with Bluetooth so that you can use a Bluetooth wireless stereo headset. Foley said everyone is waiting for it but he’s heard nothing from Apple. […]

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Hardware

Good: 200MB PB Drives, Bad: 2007

Several sources are reporting that Fujitsu is preparing a 200GB (2.5-inch) notebook drive. The new mobile hard drive will feature perpendicular recording technology according to IDG News. Perpendicular recording is a method of storing information using magnetic fields to represent each bit. In disks that are commercially available today, the bits, or magnetic fields, lay […]

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The Value of Your Legacy Portable? (Updated)

As new machines continue to roll out of Cupertino, along with the release of Tiger this week, my old iBook Dual USB 500MHz continues to decline in value. So, what do you do with that old iBook/PowerBook that just isn’t worth getting rid of? Kitchen appliance, car stereo, stereo component? What’s your take on the […]

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Hardware PowerMac G5

Amazon Spills the Beans on new G5 Configuration (Updated)

Amazon has spilled the beans on a new G5 configuration. Part Number: M9749LL/A Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5 processors 512MB of DDR SDRAM 250GB hard drive 16x Dual Layer SuperDrive (CD/DVD+RW) Ships with Mac OS X10.4 Tiger Amazon is selling the machine for US$2,994.99, but it is not listed in stock as of yet. [Update] […]

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Ask PowerPage: Olympus TDA and PowerBook

I am a lucky owner of a new Olympus R1018 TDA (tough digital assistant) and my main computer is a PowerBook. It comes with Windows ce.net or Linux. Since the Bluetooth support is not finished in Linux, I’ve settled for ce.net for now. It took me quite a few hours but I did get the […]