Apple Hardware & Software reviews
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Friday, 22 October 2010
MacBooks and other laptops get warm – even hot, depending on use and conditions. Running Final Cut Pro – or even iTunes sometimes – can really get the fans to spin-up and work overtime.
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Saturday, 16 October 2010
Microsoft is caught with any Mac release in two ways. Firstly, all those PC switchers and/or those who use a PC at work, say, and a Mac at home want the experience to be extremely similar, both for the sake of ease of use, and for productivity.
This is a most reasonable expectation, and if Microsoft’s assertion that a billion Macs and PCs are running Office in one form or another is true, it's certainly an expectation with considerable weight!...
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Friday, 08 October 2010
Kiwi ingenuity – designed in Christchurch and made in Thailand, the Swiftpoint promises to be a revolutionary device.
For one thing, it’s tiny – with is partly the point. It’s so small you can happily use it on the space below the keyboard and beside the central trackpad on most laptops, and most definitely this is the case for all Apple laptops...
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Wednesday, 06 October 2010
I recently checked out the latest new iMac, a top-of-the-line 2.93GHz with the bigger 2TB traditional-style hard drive fitted (not the SSD) and 12GB RAM. It took seven days to arrive once ordered, outfitted and shipped direct from China. You can track these purchases online (shipping is free) as they approach, which is cool....
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010
What everyone seems to want these days is the ability to print from iPads, iPod touches and iPhones – with the increasing use of workday applications on, particularly, iPads, you can imagine why – a printout of that Numbers spreadsheet, for example. This printer handles that fine. ...
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Wednesday, 22 September 2010
The C2 is another all-in-one design with the USB cable built right in, except this time it’s a hard drive. It offers the usual Clickfree automatic backup of PC or Mac computers, along with iPod music and playlist import...
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Tuesday, 21 September 2010
The Clickfree Traveler is a sleek, automatic backup solution that’s in between the size of a credit card and a postcard, and it’s only about 2mm thick. With a brushed aluminium chassis, it suits the Pro Macs in looks....
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Monday, 20 September 2010
Canadian company Clickfree, inventors of ‘effortless computer backup’, has just launched four feature-rich, simple-to-use backup solutions on the New Zealand market.
Clickfree products are able to backup multiple computers, networks and mobile storage devices, like the iPod, iPad and iPhone easily and effortlessly....
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Monday, 20 September 2010
It’s always in your interests to monitor and check the condition of your Mac’s hard drive, and while the free Apple Disk Utility in your Utilities' folder inside the Applications' folder can do the basics, if you want more, or continuous monitoring, you should be looking further afield. ...
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010
Little tiny USB drive packs in the Gigabytes. Physically, ‘thumb drives’ are usually about the size of a thumb, logically enough. But this thing is about the size of a thumb nail! Despite that, it holds a very impressive 16GBs of data....
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