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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Ok, away from the iPad for a bit, and on to what might serve as Apple’s competition for their newest baby. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, was holding a tablet thingy in his CES 2010 keynote, and it apparently was the HP Slate, the iPad killer. This might, or might not, be the tablet you’re all
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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.
Steve Jobs' newest baby – the
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We welcome you to another MacPCWiz Gadget Update, our last one for the opening month of the year. This is where we feature any gadget that we find that may have tickled our fancy, or may just be so darned ugly that we can’t NOT write about it.
Let’s get on with the gadgets then.
A Lenovo
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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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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.
And just a day after our No-Blu Ray-for-iMacs article (and posting their record revenues and profits), the Apple mothership quietly announces their iMac refresh – 2 new iMac models plus a new MacBook a mere 2 days (well, 1 day for some, depending on time zones) before Microsoft’s Windows 7 launch. Intentional? We’ll let you make up your mind about that. Meanwhile, onto the new models — we are a tech website first and foremost, tech industry scandalous rumors run a far second in our list of priorities.
Check out these cool new Macs inside Mac PC Wiz.
Here’s a trip down memory lane for you nostalgic Mac users out there. Remember these models — the MacBook Pro, the PowerBook G4, the iBook, the PowerBook 520, and the PowerBook 100 — they were at the leading edge of portable computer technology in their respective times. Check this out:
Twenty years ago this week, Apple
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