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Snow Leopard to support Exchange natively

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Mac OS X

This is a big deal for making Macs enterprise friendly. Can’t wait until next year!
AppleInsider | Apple previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard with QuickTime X
Mac OS X will include native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in OS X applications Mail, iCal and Address Book, making it even easier to integrate Macs into organizations of [...]

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MacBook Air $100 off at Amazon and so are iMac’s

June 14th, 2008 · No Comments · MacBook Air, iMac

MacInTouch: timely news and tips about Apple Macintosh, iTunes, iPhone and more…
MacBook Air is only $1699 with Amazon’s discount and rebate. Save $55-$105 off the new iMacs: 20-inch/2.4GHz, the 20-inch/2.66GHz or 24-inch/2.8GHz with Amazon savings.

Save $75-$180 on other MacBooks and MacBook Pro models, and save on AppleCare, too. Save $150-$380 on the latest Mac Pro [...]

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iPhone 3G

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments · iPhone

iPhone 3G reviews are out. Big differences are it is all plastic insted of metal. GPS is included and it supports 3G jof course. The headphone port is flush (yeah! so no need for special headphone adapters!). You’ll need a protector for this one. The new iPhone is the same width as the iPod touch [...]

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Mac Office 2008 somewhat faster

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Mac Office

This corresponds to what I’ve seen, you’d expect that Office 2008 being a native Intel application would be much faster than Office 2004 which is PowerPC and runs in emulation on Intel. Well, the results are a little confusing. It is faster, but not much in many things:

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Apple Airport Client Performance

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Airport Utility

Apple – Support – Downloads – AirPort Utility 5.3.1 for Leopard. Wow, incredibly hard to find, but the Airport Utility let’s you look at individual client performance. Very cool, but impossible to find but it shows you the nominal bit rate of the link I think that is active and changes over time.

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