2007-11-20
iphone oops
according to "thinksecret":http://notes.thinksecret.com/secretnotes/0711tmobilevodafone.shtml people in Germany might be able to get an iphone without the 2 year contract. (as it isn't legal to sell a phone on a contract over there apparently). Sadly I think the end result will be that the phone will either be withdrawn from Germany altogether, or some kind of technical lock where only people with ...
2006-02-26
Make the Apple patches harder to install.
"David Reid":http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=385 wrote a excellent post about how Apple is fighting a impossible battle with the OS/X hackers who release the patches to make OS/X run on a regular PC. my thoughts is that Apple needs the lawyers, as it comes down to where apple makes money. It uses the attractiveness of OS/X to sell the hardware (at ...
2006-01-27
Is Apple more expensive?
Inspired by "Thom's":http://blog.clearairturbulence.org/tech comment on a previous post, and pissed off that people are keep on calling apple purchasers 'stupid' for buying overpriced hardware I thought I would do a quick comparision of US laptops. A "IBM Thinkpad T60":http://www-131.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=4611686018425142449&storeId=10000001&langId=-1&categoryId=2049168&dualCurrId=1000073&catalogId=-840 vs a ...
2006-01-26
Did apple make the wrong choice?
when it chose which x86 processor to put in it's new macbook pro? CNET recently did a "benchmark":http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10442_7-6389077-9.html comparing the AMD and intel dual core offerings, and AMD won them all. Don't get me wrong.. for most people (including me) you won't be able to tell the difference in speed when you use your word processor, but still it ...