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Microsoft’s My Documents Folder Makes Triumphant Return – On iPad

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Earlier today, I was reading Infoworld’s article, The iPad questions Apple won’t answer. The first question they listed was “Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad?”, and their assumed answer was “No”; they suggested that the only way to do this would be to open a document from an email message.
I read that [...]

Top 5 Things To Check Out at Macworld 2010

Macworld 2010 opens today. It is the 25th annual gathering of Mac users. That’s right, 25 years!
But thanks to the absence of Apple this year, this “Mecca for Mac Heads” may be the last. So check it out while you can.

The show runs for 5 days. The Expo showfloor opens on Thursday at noon.
For the [...]

Opinion: MacBook, or iMac + iPad?

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The announcement of the iPad has done a lot of things: it’s stoked up excitement in the Mac using community, it’s got a bunch of developers feverishly coding exciting new stuff, and it’s got retailers and cell phone companies the world over drooling over the money they can make from it.
And it’s also somewhat upset [...]

In Depth: 30 Days with the Nexus One

It’s been a month since my review of Google’s “SuperPhone”, the Nexus One. Since that time, we’ve surfed, updated facebook, navigated, called, played endless hands of cribbage and even tried to freeze it to death on a trip to Dayton Ohio. Follow me after the jump to find out does the “SuperPhone” stand the [...]

Apple Begins Shipping 27-Inch iMacs With Core i5 Quad-Core Chips

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Apple reportedly has begun shipping its 27-inch iMacs with Intel Core i5 quad-core processors to consumers who ordered the new desktop Macs in October. The company is now notifying buyers the iMacs have shipped from Shanghai. Apple had said it would ship the new Core i5 and i7 quad-core Macs in November.

The new iMacs include a 27-inch screen with 16:9 ratio and 2560×1440 resolution. The 2.66 GHz Core i5 750 iMac retails for $1,999 with a $200 build-to-order alternative includes a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 860 processor. Both quad-core iMacs sport 8MB L3 cache with the “Nehalem” Core i7 reportedly 2.4 times quicker than the Core 2 Duo.

Along with a 27-inch screen, the new iMacs offer 4GB SDRAM expandable to 16GB. The desktop machines also include an ATI Radeon HD 4850 discrete graphics, 1TB Serial ATA hard drive and a slot-loading 8x SuperDrive.

[Via AppleInsider]

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4 comments

    Its cool,, I want one but don’t have enough money =(

    I am waiting for my i7!
    Should be the best desk top ever.

    it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

    waiting hard for my baby! ordered it the first day it came out…

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