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  • Apple Skips Zinc in New Notebook Batteries
    Apple has been using Li-Po batteries in its iPods and iPhone.
    Jan 07 18:46 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • End of the Line for Apple's FireWire
    Interesting that it was not mentioned anywhere, but in some ways, Apple knifed its own baby. How so? Well, it was the original iMac from 10 years ago, that intro'd USB to the mass market. Until then, USB was having a hard time getting any traction. Apple dropped its ADB connectors for USB, and everyone had to get USB mice, and USB keyboards and USB printers and so on. So if FW has died in the consumer arena, Apple can thank itself for bringing about that change 10 years ago.
    Oct 21 00:53 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • End of the Line for Apple's FireWire
    Pro models get FW. non-Pro models do not. non-Pro models like the Macbook have 13" screens, 1280x800, which are really too small to do serious FCP editing. Surely, a Pro can afford the amazing $2000 MBP? They can even get it refurb'd in a month or so for $1800, most likely. It'll have the bitchen graphics card too, just like a Pro model should have.

    What Apple has done, is drop FW for those who manage their harddrive with FW bootups. I do that, but my Macs laptops are both 5 years old. At the consumer level, FW has been dying a slow death. Apple dropped FW sync from its iPods a while back, and the iPhone lost FW power, in the 2nd generation. So, while FW is better than USB, it's become the Sony Beta to VHS; however it will live on just like Sony Beta at the professional level.
    Oct 17 13:14 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Crop of New Smartphones Will Compete With iPhone
    Open-source OSes are not a mass-market selling point. Ask Linux all about it. The average user wants functionality and usability. He doesn't care whether it is open-source or not. It's like iTMS tracks. No one cares that it has DRM, because the DRM is not a hindrance. That's why Amazon's music store has made no inroads into iTMS share.
    Oct 01 15:47 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Is Blu-Ray Actually Microsoft's Victory?
    As pointed out, PS3 with PS2 sales added up to almost 50% of the game console market, worldwide, last year. Sony may have been delayed, but it hasn't suffered as badly as you and others think. Already, this first month of the year, MS announced they had only shipped 200k units, which was 3rd and last, as some sort of anomaly. Strangely, last year, they only shipped about 1.2M units in the first 6 months of the year, which means they were shipping about 200k units per month. Sounds like a normal month to me. In other words, MS has been stuffing the channel for the Xmas quarter, in order to meet pre-announced shipping target goals. Very much like the funny math used to announce Vista licenses.
    Feb 19 15:23 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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