Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Today is the day that all my packages arrive. I am very exited. I broke down and ordered a Black MacBook 
with AppleCare and a MobileMe – Family Pack. I figured I didn’t need the power of the MacBook Pro yet, and I can wait until after MacWorld to get one if I decide that I need the power. I also wanted to save the extra money I would of spent on the MacBook Pro and use it toward the best package of them all.
The baby is coming home today. The 5 day long hospital stay is finally coming to an end, and little Juliana will finally get to come home and see her room and all of her toys and clothes. I can’t believe how much more stuff we have gotten since the baby was born. It seemed that everyday I came home I had another car full of stuff to bring into the house.
Technorati Tags: Apple, apple care, Family, MacBook, MacBookPro, mobileme
Tags: Apple, apple care, Family, MacBook, MacBookPro, mobileme
I first saw this posted via twitter by Cali Lewis. She posted it on Geek Brief TV. The picture is from a French Blog. Now I don’t speak French, but I do speed geek and the picture is lust worthy.
Now this is just another “leaked” picture which will more then likely turn out to be fake, but it has sealed my decision to wait for the 14th to purchase my new MacBook Pro. Just in case it’s real. From what you can see in the image below, is a new beveled edge and black keyboard which makes it look a lot more like the MacBook Air. Also is the much rumored glass trackpad with multi-touch. I’m not too sure I would like for the dock to be part of the multi-touch trackpad. I believe it would get in the way of normal use.
New MacBook Pro?
Technorati Tags: Apple, Leak, MacBookPro, Rumor
Tags: Apple, Leak, MacBookPro, Rumor
The folks over at Gizmodo have posted that 6 placeholder SKUs have shown up in the Inventory System of Future Shop a division of Best Buy.
Future Shop Mac SKU Place Holders
The fact that there are 6 place holder SKUS would lead one to believe that new MacBook’s and MacBook Pro’s are on the way for the much rumored October 14th announcement.
I have made it two days so far without ordering my new MacBook Pro. I want to order it now, but am trying very hard to wait to see if there are any truth’s to all these rumors I keep posting about. It’s almost like I’ve become an Apple Rumor blog.
If you have any ideas of want to weigh in on the possibility of new MacBook & MacBook Pros feel free to do so in the comments.
Technorati Tags: Apple, Future Shop, MacBook, MacBookPro, Placeholder, Rumor
Tags: Apple, Future Shop, MacBook, MacBookPro, Placeholder, Rumor
Mac Soda claims to have knowledge of the new video card Apple will use in the new MacBooks. nVIDIA’s MCP7A-U is an integrated chipset, but don’t let that turn you off. It packs features such as low-power consumption, and HDMI-Out.
read more | digg story
Technorati Tags: Apple, Graphics, MacBook, MacBookAir, MacBookPro, Nvidia, Rumor
Tags: Apple, Graphics, MacBook, MacBookAir, MacBookPro, Nvidia, Rumor
According to tuaw the German retailer T-Systems (a division of Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile) which sells Apple computers posted a few new items for sale today which were then taken down shortly after everybody started talking about them. The new systems they posted may possibly be the new MacBook Pros based on the specs, and the picture posted.
Possible new MacBook Pro
The specs were listed as having either a 2.5GHz or 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard disk, and an nVidia GF 8600M GT video card. The interesting thing is that the prices listed when the item was still visible showed the prices being much cheaper then the current models. The Apple store starts with 1799 € for the MacBookPro while T-Com has systems for 1402€ (15″ – 2.4GHz-models). Larger systems are also much cheaper (1973€ vs. 2499€ for 17″).
I’m personally hoping that they announce new MacBook Pro’s soon. I am holding off on buying one, because I don’t want to buy it, and then have a new one come out a few weeks later. The other rumor’s I’ve heard point to an October 14th announcement.
People are all worried that the Large Hardron Collider will bring about the end of the world. Personally I think the experiment will be safe. What I do worry about is some hacker group penetrating the security of the network, and messing around with things.
This exact scenario played out between September 9th & 10th at CERN. A group calling themselves Greek Security Team was able to deface one of the sites that is part of the LHC network. The site has been since unreachable to the public.
You can read the entire story here.
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Tags: hack, LHC
I found another mockup of the rumored MacBook Pro. The image was posted to flickr and I must say that I really like it.
I am still hoping that the rumored Apple event will bring an updated MacBook Pro and I also must say that if this was the design they went with I would be extremely happy. I’m currently thinking about selling my new machine I just put together to get some money saved to purchase my new toy.
Let me know what your opinions on this mockup are, again I did not create this, just found it on flickr.
Let me preface this post by saying that I know it’s not going to happen, but it sure would be nice.
Today on Digg there was an Article showing what looks like an ad for the new MacBook Pro. It shows it looking for like the Air, but larger, heavier and more powerful. There is also an article to this form post. One of the pictures in this post shows this text “The New MacBook Thinner Then Ever Before Coming September 23rd”. Now September 23rd is a big day for me, it just happens to be my 30th birthday. So that’s it really. I want to get a MacBook Pro and I am holding out until the new ones come out. So maybe I can get it as a birthday present to myself. Although, the baby is due close to my birthday as well. That means I will have the best present in the world, but maybe I could still manage to obtain the MacBook Pro and have the second best birthday present in the world.
I would also like to note that I am very tired, and haven’t been sleeping well. I am hoping this all made sense. I’m off now to try and get some of that rare sleep stuff. G’night all.
I have been planning a new video podcast, and one of the first things I will be doing for it is titled project “h”. Now I can’t say much about this project, but I will say this much. It involves building a computer, which we are going to do on camera. Needless to say I would need parts to build a computer, yeah sure I could build it out of spare parts I had laying around the house, but what would the fun of that be?
So I headed over to my favorite part supplier newegg.com. I ordered the following list of parts on Tuesday at 10:56AM.
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 3.0GHz LGA 775 130W Quad-Core Processor
DFI BloodIron P35-T2RL ATX Intel Motherboard
Patriot 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Memory
LG 20X DVD±R Super Multi DVD Burner Black ATAPI / E-IDE Model GSA-H55NK
Now I paid for standard shipping on the entire order, and did not choose the rush option. I arrived home from work the next day (Wednesday) at 4:30 and saw a package on my porch. I thought to myself, I didn’t order anything recently, and it’s too soon to be my package from newegg. Well I am happy to say that I was wrong. It was actually my newegg package. So I got curious as to when it was actually dropped off on my porch. So I checked the tracking number via the newegg site and found it was delivered at 1:48, which is barely 24 hours after I had placed the order.
So that is why I love newegg, not only do they have the best prices around, but the service is exceptional. I do have to not that I was lucky enough to have everything I ordered be in stock at the Edison, NJ warehouse. Being that I live in Northeast Pennsylvania, it was a quick trip to my home. But even when I order things that have to ship from California they are usually always here within 2 days, 3 at the most.
Now hopefully you’ve read all the way down to hear, and are thinking to yourself that this is going to be a pretty powerful computer with an extreme quad core processor and 4 gigs of ram. Well I actually ordered 2 sets of the ram, so that means 8 gigs of ram. So this is going to be a beast of a computer, you’ll just have to keep an eye out for the upcoming launch of the new project. I’m not going to give out the URL just yet. If you want to know when the project launches you can subscribe to my RSS feed, or you can follow me on twitter.
Technorati Tags: Computers, Newegg, Project "h"
Tags: Computers, Newegg, Project "h"
As you may know I am a strong believer in Windows Home Server and believe home servers are going to be a big part of computing within the upcoming years.
So today is a special day for you. Microsoft is allowing you to download a 120 day trial of Windows Home Server. I personally can not say enough good things about WHS, although in the beginning there were some problems such as the notorious data corruption bug.
For those of you whom may be interested in the trial, here is the information.
To order a trial kit click here.
To learn more about WHS click here.
