Some people are beginning to be seriously bummed out by the Apple iPad, but Steve Jobs and Co. still continue to dole out the Kool-Aid, saying that their “magical” new portable device is going to be “the death of netbooks“. We seriously doubt it, Steve, but we love your marketing department.
With Apple iPad “first ship”
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The freaking thing hasn’t even shipped, and the Apple iPad has already divided the Internet community into believers and haters. We won’t join in that direction — as far as MacPCWiz is concerned, jury’s still out on whether in the Apple tablet is a “gadget to beat” or not.
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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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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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Barely a week into 2010 and techies all over the world are already proclaiming the downfall of 2009’s favorite gadget — the netbook. Black Friday’s hottest item is going RIP, says all my fellow tech nerds while sipping their designer coffee and hunched over their work terminals. A blog at NYTimes.com says it this way:
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Let’s face it: this Apple Tablet — (whatsitgonnabecalled? -> iTablet? MacBook Touch?) — has been a long time coming. And now Mac fanbois everywhere are going ape crazy on the possibility of Steve Jobs’ version of the netbook might launch in January — to the point that it is making Apple stocks a very tasty
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So yeah, we get that you are obviously an Apple fanboi — no harm in being loyal to specific products. And you’re a guy on-the-move — you do business online, you are a poster boy for everything portable, your office is the coffee shop, the metro, Central Park, or wherever you choose it to be.
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While Apple isn’t going to throw its weight behind the Blu-ray format just yet, that doesn’t mean everyone else is doing nothing, with Amex Digital rolling out the new Blu-ray Drive Upgrade Kit. Also known as the BD-UG1, it will retail for $199 while supporting Blu-ray recording should you happen to rely on BootCamp on your Mac mini while work under the Windows operating system.
Read more on this Blu-Ray upgrade kit from Mac PC Wiz after the break.
It’s pretty official at this point — update version 10.6.2 DOES NOT support Intel’s Atom processor. And so every single one of you too cheap to buy Cupertino’s hardware and are running Snow Leopard pre-10.6.2 on your netbooks, this update is NOT for you. Now that Apple has released the final version of Mac OS 10.6.2 Snow Leopard into the wild, it appears that the shipping version does not support Intel’s Atom processor after all.
Read more on this OS X/Snow Leopard update from Mac PC Wiz after the break.
At last, some good news on the tech front for Mac users. Fancy some quad-core processor goodness for your high-end Mac? Apple could be on the way to release a couple of new MacBook Pro laptops according to two configuration files in the latest build of OS X, version 10.6.2, that carry the references MacBook Pro 6.1 and the MacBook Pro 6.1b. The last time Apple launched laptops was back in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference but the findings, by a user from a Spanish Mac forum, indicate clearly that Apple will likely refresh the very top end of its laptop range.
Read more on this inside Mac PC Wiz.