Too many hobbies, not enough focus
It's been a while since I published another article in my series chronicling the history of the PowerBook, but here it is: the 500 series. Released in 1994, the 500 series used an entirely new design full of curves an innovative features such as stereo speakers, a trackpad, dual batteries, and built-in networking. It was …
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Apple held its "A Little More to Show You" event yesterday and with it introduced five new and updated products – an updated Mac mini, a brand new iMac, a 13" version of the Retina MacBook Pro, an updated iPad, and the much rumored iPad mini. The Mac mini The mini receives basically a hardware …
I've finally had a chance to update all of my Mac Museum hardware pages with all of the models that I currently own. I had been waiting until I had a photo and detailed description of each model before posting it but that was taking too long. Instead I've decided that having an image and …
Every now and then you find a truly great deal and boy did I find one this week. I happened to be browsing through Craigslist on Wednesday when I spotted an ad for a free Mac and display. The person was moving out of the country and wanted to get rid of it quick. I …
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Apple had its big event today to reveal the iPhone 5 and new iPods. It appears that the company has finally combined its iPhone and iPod Music events into one, moving the June iPhone announcement to October last year and September this year. It now occupies the same time frame as the original Music events …
Hewlett Packard released a few new products today, including a touch screen all-in-one called the Spectre One. It looks... well, like something I've seen before. It might, just might look somewhat similar to a computer I've seen before. Maybe. You be the judge. But HP does have that cool touch pad thing to go with it …
I currently use two Macs on a daily basis – a 27" iMac and a 15" MacBook Pro. I use the iMac for gaming, graphics, photography, and heavy development work. I use the MacBook Pro for general internet surfing and writing. My MacBook Pro is almost four years old now, and while it still handles …
I have a third generation iPad and I love it, except for the home button which hasn't quite worked right since I received it. In order get it to work, you have to press really, really hard or hit it in one specific corner. Quitting and switching apps is difficult so I've been using the …
Microsoft announced its rumored first-party tablet today. It runs Windows 8. The most interesting part to me were the two accessories that Microsoft announced, the Touch Cover and the Type Cover. Both attach magnetically to the tablet (similar to the iPad's Smart Cover), both act as a cover for the tablet when folded over it, …
One of my goals for the Mac Museum is to provide original content that plays on my strengths. I pour a lot of my writing ability into the profiles that I've posted (that's why they take so long to write), but I haven't had a chance to do the same with the photos. The iBook …
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