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New MacBooks July-September?

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
While Montevina’s speed upgrades are also said to be modest, it has also been rumored that Apple will be revamping the physical design of their next notebooks to bring them in line with the current iMac and MacBook Air. Recently leaked photos depicting a more tapered [...]

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Windows Boot Drive Crash

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Even when on vacation, you find computers everywhere. Someone asked me, “what do I do? when I try to start my computer, I get a boot drive not found”.
Microsoft has a good discussion about what happens if you get Operating System Not Found or Missing operating system. The long and short of it is that [...]

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Lamp-free DLP

June 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Another example of why buying a projector now is hard. The big news is that projectors are moving to LEDs which means no more bulbs and lots less power. If you can hang on until this fall, I’d suggest waiting for next generation of projectors that are all solid-state.
(Sad to say this is the [...]

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Apple ships 802.11n Airport Express and 1Gb Ethernet notebooks

March 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Airport Express, MacBook Pro, Macbook

Macrumors.com says the $99 Airport Express is going to get 802.11n networking. This is a very nice piece of hardware that complements the Time Capsule mainly. You can use it to add a printer to your network (in essence, it converts a USB printer into a network printer), you can use it as an [...]

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