Those new Intel Macs sure look tasty, don’t they? They also don’t have to burn too big of a hole in your wallet. Amazon has some pretty good deals on Macs, including the new 13 inch Macbooks.
ArsTechnica has done another bang-up job, this time with the Apple MacBook review. Clint Ecker takes us through 7 pages of commentary, photos and benchmarks. The new MacBook is pitted against the MacBook Pro, Mac mini Core Solo, and an iBook G4.
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If you have ever played around with Mac OS X’s Activity Monitor (or typed “top” in a terminal window), you’d see many processes with unfamiliar and undecipherable names like cron or hdid. So what do they all mean? Westwind Computing has a list of the common process names and their meanings.
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Macworld has the first impressions of the new MacBook.
Jason Snell: “The biggest change with this keyboard is its look. Previous Apple laptops have featured keyboards with keys that are wide at the base, but narrower at the top. As a result, even though there are fairly large spaces between the square areas where your fingers contact the keys, there are only tiny gaps down at the base of the keys.”
Cyrus Farivar: “[The 13-inch] MacBook fits quite nicely into the Booq PowerSleeve12—only sticking out a little bit, but not enough to prevent the bag from closing. The extra resolution is quite nice too, as it allows me to have a good-sized browser window while keeping an instant message client open on the side.”
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After much speculation (and a week late, according to some), Apple has launched the new MacBook. The MacBook is a replacement for both the consumer iBook series, as well as the 12inch PowerBook. The Apple laptop line has now completed the transition to the Intel chips. There’s a lot to like about the MacBook, with up to 2GHz of Intel Core Duo processing power, an integrated iSight camera, Front Row, iLife ’06, and a 13-inch “glossy” widescreen display.
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Apple has released updates for their iLife ’06 suite. The updates, which include bug fixes and minor enhancements, are for iMovie HD, iPhoto, iWeb, and iDVD.
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Apple has released several Software Updates – Security Update 2006-003, Quicktime 7.1 (Mac OS X and Windows), and Front Row.
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Here are the latest deals from Amazon. You can save up to $150 off a MacBook Pro, iMac Core Duo or an Intel-based Mac Mini using the Amazon Rebate Center.
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The Apple Corps (the record label of the Beatles) versus Apple Computer (the company that makes Macs and iPods) lawsuit has come to an end. The dispute came about when Apple Corps said that the iTunes Music Store violated an earlier agreement which stated that Apple Computer would not get into the music business. A British judge has decided in favour of Apple Computer – read the full legal decision.
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Automator is the easy workflow automation/scripting/macro tool shipped with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4. AUTOMATOR.US is a great resource with tutorials and lots of examples to get you started. Soon you can say goodbye to all those annoying repetitive tasks that you do on your Mac!
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