Whatever you were waiting for, you can stop dreaming now because Steve Jobs just made the Apple iPad a reality — straight from fanboi wet dreams. At the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, at around 10 in the morning, he unveiled the iPad. Mark this date, you geeks — January
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We put this here, because this is one of the first drool-worthy things we have seen launched this year (pending the launch of Apple’s tablet). Maingear, a New Jersey-based maker of boutique PC hardware, brings you a wonderful year-opener in the F1X series of gaming PCs. Saw it here first at DigitalTrends.com:
Boutique high-end PC maker
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Are you a big Dell fan? Well, here are Michael Dell’s bets for consumer systems for the incoming year — the Inspiron brand continues to be Dell’s connection to the computer-owning masses. These photos were given out during CES 2010 and seen here at DigitalTrends.com:
Dell unveiled a variety of new laptops, desktops and netbooks to
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A cursory Google search for slot-load burners for desktops, be they Blu-ray burners or DVD burners, reveals that while a lot of people are looking for these kinds of drives for their desktops, very few of them exist in the wild — or even available in the market. We here at MacPCWiz figure that just
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It’s that time of the week again, and we bring you our weekly Gadget Update. Boo yah.
ASUS Eee Box 1501 now comes with Blu-ray?
ASUS Eee Box 1501 with Blu-ray
We continually admire ASUS and it’s commitment to bringing affordable technology to the masses. That admiration has grown constantly, as we see them launch powerful but
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Ahhhh, now we’re going somewhere with all this hype. Apple has finally announced that it is launching… errr, something this January 27. As to what it is launching, we’ll have to wait a little bit more. Apple is inviting people to come see it’s “latest creation”. Found this at CNET.com:
The Apple event invite as
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As far as netbooks go, and MacPCWiz guarantees this, you will be hard pressed to find a performer better than the ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1201N.
There, we just had to get that out of the way, so you know what to expect out of this article. The the end of the age of netbooks may
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Adobe’s in-house tech/software guru Dave Helmly talks about a topic we very much love (because we’re Blu-ray addicts) — Blu-ray authoring. He tackles this with Adobe software (of course), this one with Adobe Encore. Enjoy the authoring lesson, it’s 20-plus minutes of cool tips and tricks — a veritable treasure trove of stuff you need
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Hehehey! MacPCWiz’s 2nd Gadget Update coming right at you. (boo yah!) In this issue we feature a couple of computers plus a few interesting gadgets for you. Hold on tight, enjoy the ride.
LG’s BD590 – First Blu-ray player with inegrated hard drive
The LG BD590 – Blu-ray player with hard drive storage
First up is LG’s
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Ok, so we ask the obvious question here: What if, after I format my external hard drive, I realize that I need to use my portable hard drive for both Mac and Windows PC? As you would probably now guess, this is a dilemma of sorts. Mac OS X will recognize an NTFS drive, but
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