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Angry customer uses steel ball to smash Apple Store items, complains about consumer rights prior to being caught

This probably isn’t the best way to have your customer support complaints addressed. On Friday, a disgruntled customer walked into the Apple Store in Dijon, France and began destroying various products with a steel ball of the kind that’s used in the classic French game Pétanque. The steel ball is hollow but still weighs about […]

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Review: 120GB Mercury Extreme Pro 2.5″ Notebook Drive

Maybe it’s part of getting older. When the idea of solid state hard drives first emerged a few years ago, there was some hesitancy on my part. Not quite the smashing of all available nearby looms, but some hesitancy. This was a new thing, a hard drive made entirely of flash memory with no moving […]

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Apple Apparently Reconsidering Matte Displays on iMacs, Notebooks

When Apple began to slowly convert its notebook and iMacs displays to highly-reflective glass surfaces shortly after the release of the original iPhone in 2007, opinions were mixed as to the change. In short, Jason pretty much Hulked Out given the annoyance. And there may have been smashing. The screen, which has been considered almost […]