LowKey Stand
Although on the pricey side of $59 bucks, this is awesome for keeping your desk clean and the your screen at the right height, plus easy access to 4 USB 2.0 ports! Not to mention it is a very study aluminum to match the metal of the display of the cinema displays and iMacs.
Intel x9000 processors are let into the wild!
Hopefully Apple will embrace this processor series in their new
MacBook Pro they will release on January 15th, that'd make me just
about the happiest man ever!
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Amazon Kindle
Although the product is a little odd shaped and designed, the
feature set of the Kindle is impressive enough to more than
overcome the downfalls of the hardware. Built in WiFi for access to
all of your favorite blogs, that update all day long! Also you can
purchase subscriptions to most major newspapers and journals and
have them delivered each morning before they even hit the
newsstands. Access to wikipedia via WiFi and a built in dictionary
for any concept or word you might be misunderstanding. Check out
the Amazon page linked above for a full feature set.
Replacing a Notebook Hard Drive
Well, I decided to check with my good friends over at iFixit and they had a great step-by-step guide with pictures on how to get to the hard drive. The short of it... a new 160GB Seagate drive and 24+ screws in little Sobe caps later and I'm inside my laptop, scared I might break something.
Well, that looks daunting huh? Well, it wasn't too bad... just a
lot of steadyness and being static-free.
After
I replaced the hard drive (bottom left in the picture), I restarted
onto the Leopard disc and chose the restore from backup option.
This lets you restore a system from a backup, such as time
machine.
It actually lets you choose any saved state to restore from. I chose the most recent backup version. Nevertheless it took around 4 hours to transfer the 70 GB from my backup drive. Now everything is EXACTLY the way it was before my drive stopped working!
New Apple iPhone Apps Page
Apple's got a great selection of the greatest iPhone and iPod Touch Web Apps for all to check out and bookmark!
Gateway One
So I guess Gateway is really stepping up and trying to grab away
the market that cares about what their system looks like.
The
Gateway One
priced from $1,299 for the base model and $1,799 for the high end
model. It boasts Intel's Core 2 duo processor and a 19" widescreen
display. It also has 8 channel (7.1 Dolby Digital) audio, 8x
DVD±R/RW, built in 5 in 1 card reader, 802.11n draft wifi, GET
THIS... 7 usb ports!!!, 1 firewire port, 1.3Mp camera built into
the screen, media remote control, up to a 500GB hard drive and up
to 3GB of ram (2GB is standard!).
If you're in the market for a computer and you hate Macs (how could
you though?), this would be my #1 choice.
Free calls for the rest of your life.
This one time fee is $399, it includes the main "Hub" for your home
that controls all the calls. The Hub looks like an answering
machine but can do so much more. This service uses a broadband
connection, sort of like Vonage and Skype, but unlike the other
guys, the Ooma system uses your current regular phone system in
your house with the addition of a $40 box called the "Scout" that
goes in line just before your phone. These Scout boxes give you
access to voicemail at any phone in the house.
Hub
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Scout
With Ooma you can even hold two separate conversations with two
different people. This feature works like call-waiting, except you
can put one person on hold and call another while the first is on
hold, or switch between the two calls, all just by pushing on the
number pad on the first line or second line buttons.
So for most homes your look at around $500, but since that's a one
time rate and you will get free calls anywhere in the us whenever
you want... forever... you will easily recoup that money and it
will start paying for itself in under 2 years even if you are
paying as low as 20 bucks a month! So after 2 years, at the
longest, you will be essentially making money off your
investment.
iMacs, Keyboards, iLife '08, iWork' 08!
Anyways, the new keyboards are flippin' awesome...
The new iMac design is awesome...
The new iLife and iWork '08 suites are awesome
too...
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Intel Penryn
Here's my only concern is that Intel will soon be releasing their
new processor in the Core 2 Extreme line code-named
Penryn.
This will support a 45 nano meter form factor, which makes it
cooler, more efficient, and saves battery. It will be sporting up
to 2.8GHz of independently overclocking dual core processor that
lets you run single threaded apps at screaming speeds. Here's the
problem, its release date has been rumored to be not until Q1 2008
. This means that it will most likely be
released in MBP's at Macworld '08 in January. We'll just have to
wait and see what Intel's next move is!
JVC HD radio
MacBooks get upgrade
Personally I'm waiting for the LED screens and hybrid hard drive based MacBook Pro's to get released this summer, but any upgrades are good upgrades!
MXR Distortion+
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