This week’s piece at Macworld looks at the tablet thingamajiggy that is surely coming soon because everyone says so.
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Such stuff as dreams are made of
Posted in Hardware, Mac Blogs on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Word of warning
Posted in Hardware on May 1, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Glenn Fleishman noted this on Twitter yesterday, but Apple is no longer sending reminder emails to sign up for AppleCare. This burned the Macalope as well, who had planned to sign up at the end of the one year of warranty coverage, expected to be reminded then missed the date. The horny one can only [...]
You get what you pay for
Posted in Hardware, Microsoft on April 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A bit more on the Microsoft ad.
Pinch the Macalope
Posted in Hardware on March 3, 2009 | 9 Comments »
He actually agrees with ZDNet’s Larry Dignan is about the Mac mini. Not completely, of course (there’s no real comparison between the mini and a netbook, for example), but at the price point the mini is at — even with nine gajillion ports in the back — it just doesn’t seem to cut it. OK, [...]
MacBook sales crushed by netbooks
Posted in Hardware on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not.
Unicorn chaser
Posted in Hardware, iPhone on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Gartenberg, quoted in this Macworld piece by Jim Dalrymple, provides a good tonic to the nonsense in the previous pieces: “Economic slowdowns don’t stop spending, but it means people will be more careful what they spend their money on,” Michael Gartenberg, vice president of market research firm JupiterMedia and editor of the MobileDevicesToday blog, [...]
Somewhere, someone is wrong on the Internet
Posted in Hardware, Silly Pundits on December 9, 2008 | 46 Comments »
Guess who!
Still not thankful for ZDNet.
Posted in Hardware, Silly Pundits on November 26, 2008 | 48 Comments »
Speaking of professional trolls, ZDNet’s Robin Harris provides a veritable omnibus of stupid. An omnishortbus, if you will. The title? Apple’s new MacBooks: flop or fiasco? What prompts this bon mot? What appears to be an unattributed report saying Apple has cut MacBook orders by 20-30% in DigiTimes, the outfit that said Apple would offer [...]
Is this a joke?
Posted in Hardware, Silly Pundits on October 15, 2008 | 39 Comments »
Wired’s news feed teases Adam DuVander’s Webmonkey piece on the so-called “Apple tax” thusly: It’s no secret that Apple’s computers cost more than PCs with similar specs. Well, when you put it like that, it must be true! But Apple’s disclosure of its sales figures and estimated market share at a press event Tuesday raises [...]
Well, duh
Posted in Hardware on June 8, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Computerworld discovers Macs aren’t more expensive than PCs.
