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• goodness. just had to find a story somewhere huh?
  
  "The unibody MacBook and MacBook Pro had become almost identical--the basic differences could be summed up as a matter of price, a port, and a graphics card. Perhaps Apple was merely looking for a way to clear up the difference of the two models in the minds of less tech-savvy shoppers."
  
  bingo. nothing's changed except the name... now grandma can get the "macbook pro" for the price of the "macbook" In reply to: "The gap in Apple's MacBook lineup"

  June 9, 2009

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• just got parallels 4 and now i'm wishing i had not. horrible and unstable, they seem to have rushed this release to keep vmware from getting too many headlines, but it's just not usable.
  
  after a few minutes the vm freezes and i have to kill it, it's a cpu hog compared to ver 3 when idle.
  
  some promising features though, such as dynamic resource allocation, multi-core support and windows icons can appear in the os x menu bar next to the os x items.
  
  just not ready yet, should have done more testing or released it in beta before calling it a final version. my recommendation would be to hold off until they've worked out some major bugs. In reply to: "Performance key to new Parallels Desktop for Mac"

  November 11, 2008

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• yes i have used it. depends on what you want to use it for. internet explorer and office seem to be the most stable and usable products. anything beyond that is a crap-shoot. they have a list of apps that are known to be supported, check out their web site. In reply to: "Performance key to new Parallels Desktop for Mac"

  November 11, 2008

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• no. it does not. In reply to: "Performance key to new Parallels Desktop for Mac"

  November 11, 2008

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• my drive died this morning
  on my macbook. of course it wasn't a seagate, it was as hitachi and
  it wasn't the original drive. In reply to: "Apple acknowledges some MacBook hard-drive problems"

  November 26, 2007

  2 replies

• Right
  It's wireless or wired, but not connected directly to a computer.
  It streams content from 5 computers and stored items directly
  on the internal HDD from 1 computer. "Connected" was a bad
  choice of words.
  
  From Apple's site:
  "Apple TV works with widescreen, enhanced-definition or high-
  definition TVs capable of 1080i, 720p, 576p, or 480p
  resolutions..."
  
  "AirPort Extreme, Wi-Fi 802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11n wireless
  network...Wireless streaming requires 802.11g or 802.11n."

  January 9, 2007

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• looks like "fake" wheel is the answer
  http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/top/exclusive-microsoft-zune-details-194957.php
  
  "First off, that scroll wheel you see? That's not a wheel. It's just four buttons arranged in a wheel formation. "

  September 28, 2006

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• hah
  maybe i can trade in my beenz points for zune points...

  September 28, 2006

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• Huh?
  Where have you been living? iPod only works with a Mac? Any iPod will work with windows (thanks to 3rd party tools) and newer iPods work with windows out of the box.
  
  The zune doesn't seem to have anything great about it. Microsoft missed a chance by making a portable player that would compete with the Nano, but instead went for the iPod with the smaller adoptee rate. Yeah sharing is maybe the one feature that could hurt the iPod but i'm sure microsoft loused that up as well.
  
  And 79 points = 99 cents? Maybe there's a formula in excel that will help me keep track of that...

  September 28, 2006

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• Well they did buy it...
  They bought it from Connectix. I'm not so sad VPC is dead on the
  mac, VM Ware announced their upcoming solution, there's parallels
  ($$) and if you want to reboot there's boot camp (free).
  
  What bothers me is they are dropping vbscript in office for mac,
  not that I like vbscript, but that means office files are no longer
  portable from pc to mac (and the other way around) if you wanted
  to use scripting (mostly in excel) which i tend to do.

  August 7, 2006

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