It happened to me - the infamous white macbook laptop case cracking.  I’d read about this a couple years ago, but had forgotten about it.  Until last night.  I opened my macbook and the case had a crack in it.  Specifically, the area to the left of the left shift key had a larger than [...]

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So Keith Elder has finally switched back to the “Apple is expensive” party line.  Keith and I had numerous “debates” about this topic years ago, and he was *always* quoting the Apple fan line that “spec for spec” Apples are not just competitive with regular PCs but *cheaper*.
I know Keith knows he believed it back [...]

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So Long Apple. The Party’s Over

JavaLobby.org has a pretty long thread on this recent blogosphere topic. Apple did not ship a Java 6 with Leopard. Everyone is up in arms. One of the questions I haven’t seen address anywhere is why it’s Apple’s job to spend time putting together a Java runtime [...]

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This has probably been beaten to death in macrumor sites already - I’m not speculating as to what might or might not be coming out in future versions.  I *did* have the idea (however unoriginal) that including ‘text to speech’ in the iPod would make it tremendously useful for reading blog RSS feeds.  Imagine being [...]

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Keith over at dotnetpimps (see trackback) has written a decent piece on the state of open source software and what it has and what it doesn’t. Really not anything that hasn’t been said before, but nicely summed up.
I’ve had discussions with mark on this topic over years (and with keith occasionally) and Mark’s take [...]

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I can’t believe I’m the only person experiencing this, but I haven’t found *any* mention of it in the 20 billion + documents google has indexed.
As I wrote earlier, my wife recently got a new Mac - (NOTE - IT’S AN INTEL MAC!!!) - we’re now running OS X 10.4.6. We’re using the latest [...]

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My wife is a rather committed Apple fan.  We’ve owned an emac for almost 3 years, and have an iPod each.  We’re not rabid ‘top of the line, gotta have it now’ people, but she does appreciate the Apple experience.  We went to the local Apple store here and did explain that we have an [...]

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