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Apple Now Accepting iPad Apps, Planning “Grand Opening” of iPad App Store

Apple is now accepting iPad apps for a “grand opening” of the iPad App Store, according to an email just sent to registered developers.
“iPad will begin shipping soon and your opportunity to be part of the grand opening of the iPad App Store starts today,” the email says.
There’s no details about when the store’s grand [...]

Security Expert: “Mac OS X Is Safer, But Less Secure”

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Tech site H-Online has an interesting story today, quoting security expert Charlie Miller about his forthcoming talk at the CanSecWest conference next week.
He says OS X is full of security holes. There are lots more than in Windows, he claims.
And yet: OS X is a safer system to use. Why? Because, in the words [...]

Apple Devotes Entire Home Page To Jerome York Obituary

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If ever you needed a sign that Apple was a different kind of technology company, this is it.
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This is one of those “Here’s to the [...]

Coming Soon: Steve Jobs, the Sitcom

Fake Steve creator Dan Lyons just signed a deal to bring Steve Jobs to another small screen near you.
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Making sure the barbs prick will be the [...]

Apple Updates Plastic MacBook With NVIDIA 9400M Graphics

Apple’s white plastic MacBook now has the same graphics horsepower of more expensive aluminum MacBooks, reports said Wednesday.

The upgrade, made without any official fanfare, provides buyers of the low-end notebook NVIDIA’s 9400 graphics engine, the same system already available to owners of pricier aluminum MacBooks.

Cupertino also added some oomph to the white plastic notebook’s main processor, upgrading the MacBook to a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and doubling memory to 2GB.

However, the white plastic MacBook’s beefier DD2 memory has a clock speed of 667 MHz rather than the speedier 1.06MHz available with DD3 memory for aluminum MacBooks.

Likewise, Apple still limits white plastic MacBooks to a 20-inch Cinema Display upgrade and retains a Mini DVI graphics output rather than a Mini DisplayPort.

In October, Apple lowered the price of its entry-level white plastic MacBook to $999 from $1,099.

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Ed Sutherland

Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.

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One comment

    I didn’t understand something: “Likewise, Apple still limits white plastic MacBooks to a 20-inch Cinema Display upgrade…” I have a 24-inch Samsung Display for my white plastic Macbook and they work perfectly together.

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