execupundit.com - 1/17/2009
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Daniel Akst looks at the cost of Macs and concludes that "cool" is associated with "cash." An excerpt: Most of the cool people I know use a Mac. My sense is that they like to think of themselves as egalitarian sorts unencumbered by snobbery -- rather than, say, brainwashed cultists obsessed with ...
macrumors.com - 1/23/2009
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macrumors.com —
A security alert posted this morning by antivirus
vendor Intego reveals that the company has discovered a...
new Trojan horse that is being carried by pirated copies of iWork '09 circulating on a number of torrent sites. The Trojan, which...
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iWork '09 Torrent Carrying OS X Trojan [Updated]
blogs.pcmag.com - 1/23/2009
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blogs.pcmag.com —
It's hard to believe that this week marks
25 years since the original Apple Macintosh was first...
introduced. In that period, the Mac has had its ups and downs, and changed in ways that the original development team could scarcely have imagined. But in ...
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Mac Memories: The Day Steve Jobs Showed Me the First Mac
macworld.com - 1/23/2009
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macworld.com —
by Adam C. Engst , Macworld.com Editor’s Note:
The Mac is certainly a landmark product, one of...
the many to make its way out of Cupertino in the last quarter-century. But not everything Apple touches turns to gold. We asked TidBits editor Adam C. ...
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The six worst Apple products of all time | Editors' ...
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The Price of Mac Cool - It's Higher Than Windows
Futurelawyer —
Execupundit.com: The Price of Mac Cool.
If you have drunk the Koolaid, and think that using Macs is cool, and using PCs is boring and stupid; then, you need to read this post from Execupundit. Facts are facts; Macs are pricier than PCs, and don't do anything so much better than PCs to justify the price jump. However, I would prefer to keep the extra money in my pocket and be seen as someone who isn't interested in status symbols. If you really believe that your choice of computer operating system and hardware defines ...
Clearing The Cache [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network —
... Like many of us, I spend quite a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting things. In Clearing The Cache I pull out some of my favorites and share them with you here.
Daniel Akst says I Once was Chic, but Now I’m Cheap as he goes back to PC (via Execupundit).
Gregg encounters an amusing dialog box from Adobe.
Using Windows 7? Tim shares The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets (via Geek in Disguise).
Nick Lewis shares his ...
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The Mac just turned 25 years old, and Macworld decided to ask some people which was the best Mac ever made. The results may surprise you.
What could it be? Surely something of recent vintage, the new unabomber MacBook Pro perhaps, loaded as ...
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apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com 1/23/2009 — Anticipating the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh — unveiled by Apple ( AAPL ) in a Super Bowl ad on Jan. 24, 1984 — AAPLinvestors has assembled some choice quotes from the first wave of critical reviews.
Below, a sample from their ...
Get a Mac - FAQ
apple.com 12/2/2008 — Can a Mac run Windows and Microsoft Office? Yes. Microsoft Office is available for the Mac, and Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files created on a Mac are fully compatible with Windows. Most other popular applications are available for the Mac, too. But ...
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macminicolo.net 3/4/2009 — A Look At The New Mac mini Low cost. High Performance. The Perfect Mac Server As you can imagine, we were happy to see a new Mac mini get announced this morning. The Mac mini is an incredibly powerful server with a low price . Colocating with ...
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theappleblog.com 1/23/2009 —
Boxee is telling their Mac users to get LOST — that is, they are telling them that they can watch the hit show on their Mac.
Boxee is releasing a new update for their Mac version today that allows users to stream content from ABC. The ...
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readwriteweb.com 1/26/2009 — On January 24, two days after Ridley Scott 's now legendary 1984 commercial went to air during Super Bowl XVIII , Steve Jobs stepped onto the stage at De Anza College in Cupertino CA, and pulled a beige box out of a canvas bag. As the lights dimmed ...
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macworld.com 1/22/2009 — Macworld:
The 25th anniversary of the Mac is bound to spark debates, particularly when it comes down to the ultimate question for Mac aficionados: Which system was the greatest Mac ever?
Adam Engst, John Siracusa, and yours truly all ...
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