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The New MacBook Pros are here with Thunderbolt!

February 24, 2011 No comments

Today Apple announced the new MacBook Pros (13″, 15″ and 17″) with the new Thunderbolt connectors.

I didn’t expect thunderbolt (aka lightpeek) to be released so early. It’s a great step up for a new generation of connectors. Hopefully, we’ll get a lot of peripherals with it, especially hard drives.

USB has always sucked for hard drives (except the 3.0 version) and firewire was never as widely supported. Now that Intel is on board with this new connector, I’m sure it will push it in all its new chipsets and the connector will be soon available on most new PCs.

But it will take a step like the one Apple took with USB back in 1998 and removed all the other connectors to push the availability of peripherals using it. So, hopefully after a year on the market, Apple will release the next generation of its systems with firewire and USB removed, forcing the adoption of the new connector.

BTW, the new MacBook Pros finally adopt Intel’s year-old i5 and i7 processors. About time!

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Apple Sells 33.36 Million iOS devices in Q1 2011

January 18, 2011 No comments

Apple reported sales of 7.33 Million iPads, 16.23 Million iPhones and 9.8 Million iPod touch.

With 92 days in the quarter from October to December, it means that Apple activated over 362,000 iOS devices per day on average.

Although Apple doesn’t break down its iPod sales by type, from the price average per iPod ($176) it’s easy to extrapolate that more than half of those are iPod touch.

That’s simply astonishing. Huge, huge numbers.

With a reported 90% of all iOS devices running iOS 4.x, that makes for a very strong platform for app developers to build on.

Also, they reported selling 4.134 Million Macs, making this the first quarter they sell more than 4 million macs per quarter.

Very strong results indeed. Congratulations Apple!

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MobileMe’s iDisk sucks for big files!

December 19, 2010 1 comment

I never believed it before, but today I experienced its suckiness for myself. iDisk sucks for big files, especially disk images.
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iTunes installation problem

December 16, 2010 No comments

For the first time ever, since I started using Macs (back in 1985) I face an installation problem with an Apple package.

Last night, iTunes 10.1.1 showed up in Software Update and I told it to install it. When the installation process finished, the installer tried launching iTunes and it failed with a missing dynamic library problem.

I tried launching it manually and it failed again.

The solution was simple, go to Apple’s iTunes page, download the full installer and install it manually.

There is always a first time.

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Bing’s Censorship in the Middle East

October 28, 2010 No comments

A while back, I decided to switch from Google as the default search engine to Bing. I did for a while and was forced to switch back because of Bing’s censorship policies.
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