Jan 15th, 2008 by Stu
Today’s MacWorld special event was Steve Jobs unveiling the new MacBook Air - a super slim sub notebook that’s .76 inches at it’s thickest. This slender, lightweight Mac comes with the option of flash based storage, instead of a regular hard drive.
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Jan 8th, 2008 by Stu
For users who need lots of processing power, memory and storage in one Mac, Apple has released it’s new top-of-the-line 8 core Mac Pro. The new monster features all kinds of upgrades that should appeal to it’s professional graphics, video and audio customers. Using quad core Intel Xenon processors and lots of L2 cache should significantly boost processing speed over older Mac Pro models.
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Jan 8th, 2008 by Stu
I just wanted to drop a quick note here praising this handy timesaver that makes exporting and uploading pictures to Facebook sooo easy for iPhoto users. With the plugin you can log onto Facebook directly from iPhotos ‘Export’ menu, bypassing extra steps, and saving time.
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Jan 8th, 2008 by Stu
You want a big HDTV? Want something crisper than projection, but large enough to fill your cavernous home theater with bright plasma HDTV goodness?
Well, now you can thank Panasonic for unveiling a huge 150 inch plasma hdtv at the CES 2008 show yesterday. Panasonic has upped the bragging rights ante with this intimidatingly proportioned HDTV, which they claim has 8.84 million-pixel image resolution. Its screen is the equivalent of nine 50-inch sets, with an effective viewing area of 11 feet, unheard of without projection.
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Jan 7th, 2008 by Stu
Blu-ray? HD DVD? Who cares! If you have some kind of broadband internet in your area, chances are you can forget about the format wars (as deftly pointed out by a recent article in the New York Times Blog) and just stream HD movies right into your living room.
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Jan 7th, 2008 by Stu
Well, I’m not sure that anyone would have noticed I was missing online, but I’m back and ready to blabbing and talking about technology, HDTV and Mac stuff again.
My absence began when my iMac died - just out of warranty. Either the logic board or power supply blew, but since Apple didn’t want to fix their lemon of an iMac, I was SOL for a little while. A 350 mhz G4 got me through the summer, and in September I purchased one of these slick new aluminum iMacs (with Applecare, you better believe).
Since then I’ve been getting back in gear, and I think I’m ready to start posting again 
May 18th, 2007 by Stu
Is it wrong to love something just because it’s so big? Am I admitting something about my inadequacy as a male if I get all excited about a big, expensive object?
This 52 inch HDTV is impressive in ever possible meaning of the word as it applies to large pieces of home theater equipment, both for the picture, and how elegant it manages to be for such a beast!
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May 18th, 2007 by Stu
Gamerscore is reporting that Microsoft will be sticking with HD-DVD as a high definition format for the foreseeable future.
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