Archived Roundup - Wednesday, October 27, 2004
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Three Challengers Take On The Mini
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These challengers are getting closer in style to matching Apple. But, until they are as easy to use, I can't recommend them over the iPod. By Walter...
Rejected Limited Edition iPods
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The door has been opened for imitators to follow...
Even I Didn't Know That Windows Had Gotten This Bad
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It's one thing to be the better platform. It's a whole other thing to be the only usable platform out there. You do the math. By Bill Palmer,...
Putting Bluetooth In An iBook
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The hack permanently ties up one of the USB ports, but no longer does the iBook have an ugly appendage. By Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac
Steve Jobs: He Thinks Different
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By Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
New in iTunes 4.7 - Show Duplicate Songs
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iTunes 4.7 includes support for copying photos to an iPod photo and a cool new feature: the ability to show duplicate songs in your library. It...
Apple Remote Desktop updated
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Apple Remote Desktop has been updated to v2.1, and it seems more stable so far. The Ping of Death problem still occurs, but that can be avoided by...
The Road Warrior: The iBook Speed Bump; Can PowerBook Updates Be Far Behind?
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In his Road Warrior column Charles Moore predicts that PowerBook speed-bumps may follow last week's iBook speed bumps. Read More... Read...
Aluminum PowerBook Pitting
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MacInTouch has posted a reader thread on the topic of Aluminum PowerBooks pitting. "No, what we're seeing are not scratches, they are actual pits,...
System X Faster, But Falls Behind
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Virginia Tech's recently rebuilt Mac supercomputer has squeezed out a few more teraflops, but it probably won't be able to keep its top-five world...
QuickTime Won't Make Quick Time To Cell Phones
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While Apple competitors Microsoft and Real prefer to attack the burgeoning market for cell phone entertainment by having handset makers embed their...
Virtual PC For Mac Straddles Two Worlds
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What happens next to Virtual CP is in the hands of the Macintosh Business Unit. The fact that there is now a Virtual C that is a fully Microsoft...
Apple's Newest Gambit: U2 iPod
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With this U2 bundle the numbers skew wildly in Apple's favor with two-thirds of the money going to Apple. By John C. Dvorak, CBS Marketwatch
The Video iPod Is Coming, I Hope
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Yes, watching portable video now is a kluge exercise, but Apple can fix that. By Scott Ard, CNET News.com
