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Apple Agonistes
Apple Loses Business
A free GUI Solution To Resizing Disk Partitions
Microsoft Employee talks about how MS is copying Leopard for next OS
A Road to Daytona - Leopard From The POV Of The Standalone User.
Firefox 3 Final Beta To Be Released In March
Canadian Sympatico Email Service Affected By Hotmail Outage
eWEEK: Apple Moves MacBook, MacBook Pro Lines to Penryn
The Mac Hardware Report: How Important Are Looks?
Road Warriors Get Ready - Lenovo Delivers `No Compromises' Ultraportable ThinkPad X300 Notebook PC
Apple Agonistes
News.com's Charles Cooper says:
Browsing the headlines on Yahoo Finance this morning was enough to make anyone briefly consider jumping out the window. To wit:
• Job worries sink consumer confidence
• S&P: U.S. home prices down sharply
• U.S. home foreclosures soar in January
• Harsh light shines on iPhone, iPod sales
So here's the multiple choice test: Which headline does not fit with the rest? If you chose letter "D" you win a dream date with my colleague Michael Kanellos (No worries: Kanellos is off reporting on start-ups in Ireland this week, and so you're safe.)
I have to confess that the depth of emotion punctuating the "whither Apple" debate never ceases to baffle me. Throughout its history, Apple has always received more than its fair share of scrutiny. The commentary has usually been marked by extremes, pro and con, between the bulls and bears. That just went with the territory. And now a new element has been injected into the debate over Apple's prospects: recession.....
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Apple Loses Business
smh.com.au's David Flynn reports:
Apple's stylish notebooks may be common in cafes and schools but despite success with consumers, the company is on the fringes with business.
Experts say there's no sign of that changing. iMacs may sit at the reception desk and PowerMacs are standard for designers, yet Apple has failed in the broader enterprise.
To read more, click here.
A free GUI Solution To Resizing Disk Partitions
Mac OS X Hints contributor smilinggoat says:
I installed Leopard on a FireWire drive to test it before upgrading my MacBook Pro's internal Tiger installation. Satisfied with the results, I tried to use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy Leopard to my MacBook Pro's internal drive, only to find the external image was slightly too large for the internal.
Not wanting to spend $35 on iPartition, I dug around and found the GParted LiveCD. It provides the GParted GUI front-end to parted (a GNU partitioning program) on a live Linux CD. I burned the image in Disk Utility and booted up on it. Once loaded, it provided a screen to select which kernel version to boot up, even providing a MacBook option......
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080216071647156
GPARTED-LiveCD
http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/
Microsoft Employee talks about how MS is copying Leopard for next OS
AppleGazette's Michael reports:
Brandon is a developer for Microsoft. He has a Macbook that he carries around at work because its a well built machine. He barely uses OSX on it, and he even knows some people at his job who have them and have completely deleted the OSX partition - because the hardware is THAT good…but, you know, OSX doesn't quite compare to Windows Vista.
Anyway, in this post on his blog, he discusses not only how Microsoft is looking at Leopard and copying features, but he also ponders if Apple is doing the same…
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A Road to Daytona - Leopard From The POV Of The Standalone User.
rixstep says:
There are those who have voiced unreserved praise for OS X 10.5 Leopard and there are those who incessantly criticise it. The truth has to be somewhere in between. This is an account of what it's like to boot into Leopard - as opposed to Tiger and previous releases of OS X. It's empirical and covers only a limited gamut of experiences and mostly from the POV of the standalone user.
You can check it out at:
http://rixstep.com/2/4/20080226,00.shtml
Firefox 3 Final Beta To Be Released In March
ZDNet.co.uk's Tom Espiner reports:
Firefox 3 edges closer to release, with the fourth and final beta of the web browser out "in a couple of weeks", according to Mozilla's vice president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer.
The final Firefox 3 beta release will address issues including memory usage and cross-site XML HTTP requests. Memory usage has been improved in the final release version of Firefox 3 by rewriting "big chunks of the core Firefox code" and tuning the core scripting engine, according to Schroepfer.
For the full report visit here:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39352913,00.htm
In the meantime you can read Charles W. Moore's full review of Firefox 3beta3 here.
Canadian Sympatico Email Service Affected By Hotmail Outage
The Canadian Press reports:
Bell Canada's Sympatico email subscribers were among the casualties of a global outage Tuesday at the system that hosts Microsoft's free Hotmail email and other web services that are run by the U.S.-based software giant.
Jason Laszlo, a Bell Canada spokesman, said the company - which offers the Sympatico Internet service in Ontario and Quebec and has millions of subscribers - first noticed problems with Microsoft's outage just before 9 a.m. Tuesday.....
At Microsoft and Bell Canada, the two companies integrated their respective web portals about four years ago - combining two of Canada's most-visited websites into sympatico.msn.ca. The Sympatico email accounts, which are included with Bell's Internet subscriptions, have since been integrated with the Microsoft platform.
For the full report click here.
eWEEK: Apple Moves MacBook, MacBook Pro Lines to Penryn
MacBook Pro gains the multi-touch trackpads and environmentally conscious LED backlights of its sleek sister MacBook Air.
[Editor's note: Actually, the 15" MacBook Pro got LED backlights in the June, 2007, revision, and the 17" Pro and the MacBook still have CCFL backlights with this latest revision.]
For the full report click here.
The Mac Hardware Report: How Important Are Looks?
Apple has continued to raise the bar for cutting-edge industrial design, but little has changed when it comes to appearance in the Mac lineup in recent years, other than the strikingly individualistic beveled shape of the MacBook AIr. As my friend Rob Griffiths, of Macworld, observes in an intriguing commentary this week: "But then, I came to a startling conclusion: it seems Apple has perfected the design of its Mac cases."
Here's the link to the story:
http://macnightowl.com/2008/02/26/the-mac-hardware-report-how-important-are-looks/
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Road Warriors Get Ready - Lenovo Delivers `No Compromises' Ultraportable ThinkPad X300 Notebook PC
[ Press Release ]
Lenovo has unveiled its highly-anticipated ThinkPad X300 notebook PC, designed for today's most demanding road warriors, and the thinnest and lightest full-function notebook in its class1. The ultra-thin, ultraportable ThinkPad X300 notebook measures less than three-fourths of an inch at its thinnest point, or approximately the height of a U.S. quarter coin, and has a starting weight as low as 2.9 pounds.
The ThinkPad X300 notebook combines a number of leading technologies such as solid-state drive storage, a LED backlit display, ultralong battery life and enhanced wireless connectivity. Rated Gold by the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) for its superior environmental attributes, it also features a number of environmentally-conscious technologies, such as low-voltage processors.
"The ThinkPad X300 notebook marks a major milestone for the ThinkPad family," said Peter Hortensius, senior vice president, Notebook Business Unit, Lenovo. "ThinkPad has been pioneering notebook PC design for more than 15 years, raising the bar on innovation, and focusing on the core needs of ThinkPad users, namely quality, reliability and functionality. Our customers told us that they wanted a notebook that was amazingly thin and light, but that they still wanted their battery options, their USB ports and of course, their DVD burner. Well the waiting is over, and it's all there in the ThinkPad X300, our thinnest and lightest ThinkPad ever."
Designed for Maximum Mobility & Performance
The versatile ThinkPad X300 notebook PC offers models that can be configured for extreme portability starting at just 2.9 pounds2, or maximum battery life of up to 10 hours3 or a balance between the two with a convenient built-in DVD burner. With its compact, thin and light design, the notebook packs a powerful punch, providing a full suite of innovative features to meet users' mobile computing needs.
Expanded Multimedia: The ThinkPad X300 notebook offers an optional built-in 7-millimeter slim DVD burner for easy, flexible, on-the-go multimedia capabilities. It also includes stereo speakers, a digital microphone and an integrated camera.
Extreme Durability: Constructed with advanced carbon and glass fiber, the ThinkPad X300 notebook's Next Generation ThinkPad Roll Cage helps protect the notebook from falls and drops that can occur in mobile environments. These same materials are used in building airplanes and Formula One race cars to help reinforce their structure without adding additional weight.
Ultimate Wireless Connectivity: Users have a variety of connectivity options at their fingertips including models designed for WiMax, when the technology becomes available, as well as ultra-wideband/wireless USB, WWAN4, WLAN5 and GB Ethernet.
Simple Navigation: Built-in GPS functionality6 allows mobile users to navigate by helping them to connect to popular mapping programs.
Clearer, Crisper Viewing Experience: The notebook's 13.3-inch LED backlight WXGA+ high resolution display provides brighter and more energy-efficient performance than LCD displays.
Enterprise-Level Security: Equipped standard with an integrated fingerprint reader, I/O port disablement and 32-byte password protection, the notebook offers a layered security approach to help protect data and unauthorized access.
Enhanced Performance and Data Protection: The notebook comes equipped with a 1.8-inch 64 GB SSD that provides more than twice the performance of a regular 2.5-inch hard drive7. With no moving parts, the technology offers more than four times greater shock resistance as well as greater energy efficiency than traditional hard disk drives and contributes to the notebook's thin and light design7. The notebook also comes with the latest Intel Centrino with vPro technology, up to 4 GB memory and Lenovo's ThinkVantage Technologies.
"The challenge we shared with Lenovo in its development of the ThinkPad X300 was in making things small without losing key capabilities, such as performance and battery life," said Mooly Eden, corporate vice president and general manager, Intel Mobile Platforms Group. "Intel's contribution included developing packaging technology that enabled us to shrink the Intel Centrino platform by more than 50 percent, yet retain its high performance and low energy consumption."
In its first big test out of the gate, the ThinkPad X300 notebook PC will support team members on the official aircraft of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay as it launches a demanding 137,000-kilometer, five-continent "marathon" next month. Often departing from torch relay cities late at night and arriving at the next city in the early hours of the morning, and with no margin for error, the torch team will rely on both ThinkPad and Ideapad technology to support nearly 22,000 torchbearers, in more than 130 cities worldwide.
Designed for the Environment
Rated Gold by EPEAT, the ThinkPad X300 notebook stands out as one of the most environmentally-responsible PCs in the industry. Lenovo designed the notebook to include environmentally-conscious technologies such as energy-efficient SSD and arsenic-free LCD glass and mercury-free LED displays. The energy-efficient LED display helps the ThinkPad X300 notebook achieve up to 35 percent lower power consumption than previous models. Lenovo also uses recyclable packaging.
The ThinkPad X300 notebook starts at approximately $2,799. It is available immediately through Lenovo business partners and:
http://www.lenovo.com
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