Posts Tagged ‘apple’

MacBook Pro refresh late 2011

October 24th, 2011

Apple has done a late season refresh on their MacBook Pro lineup.

You can expect to get a boost in performance, storage and certain video upgrades.

    13-inch MacBook Pro includes a 2.4GHz dual-core Core i5 processor with 500GB hard drive. $1,199
    or
    $1,499 will now buy a 2.8GHz dual-core Core i7 with a 750GB hard drive.
    —–
    15-inch MacBook Pro includes a 2.2GHz quad-core Core i7 and an AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics card for $1,799.
    or
    2.4GHz quad-core Core i7 and AMD Radeon HD 6770M GPU for $2,199.
    —–
    17-inch MacBook Pro includes a 2.4GHz quad-core Core i7 processor with AMD 6770M for $2,499.
    or
    2.5GHz quad-core Core i7 CPU and a 512GB solid state drive for $3,849.

    These laptops are shipping now! So if you bought one last week, you might want to get ahold of Apple Customer Service and see if they are willing to compromise.

$299 Droid Bionic? No end to the Greed!

September 9th, 2011

Apparently Verizon is not content to make a killing on your tiered data plan…they seem to think that you want to pay an extra $100 for a dual core smartphone as well.

Will the Droid Bionic Make $299 Smartphones the Norm?

All this without any discount to your monthly bill. Ouch!

Look to Sprint to swoop in and rescue you with numerous dual core phones and possibly the iPhone 5 (rumor:)…all on an unlimited data plan that I don’t see changing any time soon.

Sprint Said to Plan Unlimited Data With IPhone

To prepare for the introduction, Sprint has postponed the September debut of a rival smartphone that uses fourth- generation, or 4G, wireless technology, said one person familiar with the situation.

Sprint– This is not the iPhone 5 you are looking for

August 29th, 2011

Looks like Sprint is trying to hide something…maybe? Unfortunately they probably have to hide the fact that the iPhone 5 is coming to their network. My guess is that it’s an Apple rule that is to blame.(speculation of course)
It may also simply be that the Big Boss Man of Sprint wants to be the one to reveal the news.

I can’t understand what the big deal is. Sprint has had many very successful Android phones. Of course, Apple iPhone is considered, by many, to be the top of the line in smartphones.

Whatever the case, it will be interesting to see how long this secret is kept.

source: ubergizmo

Kindle Cloud Reader trumps Apple rules

August 10th, 2011

Score one for Amazon in their battle with unrealistic rules from Apple and their app store regulations.

Kindle Cloud Reader is an optimized web-browser based Kindle reader, for iPads and Google Chrome and even Apple Safari.

Support for additional browsers coming soon.
On an iPhone or other unsupported device? Check out our free Kindle reading applications

All of this Amazon Kindle goodness is made possible by delivering your books from the Amazon cloud and rendering them in HTML5. You can also download new books and read them offline.

This is a giant middle finger to the Cupertino Rules Machine.

Kindle Cloud Reader

source: Gizmodo.com

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