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.
The newest episode of Growing Up Geek has been posted to growingupgeek.net and also iTunes.
Show Notes
- Jerry finally got his PS3
- Jason finishes his WHS serve backup and let us know how much data he lost
- Trevor is worried we’re too connected in this digital world
- Jerry wants to know who to blame when his old programs don’t work on newer version of Windows
- We all miss our DOS games
- Why do we pay almost full price for 10+ year old games?
- Will Microsoft add a Blu-ray player? Did they make a mistake abandoning HD-DVD?
- A history of EGMs April Fool’s jokes
- The Dreamcast.com phishing scam
- Ziff Davis files for bankruptcy
- EA tells Jack Thompson to get bent
- Jerry and Jason talk about their experiences with the Wii Zapper
- We make plans for a video ‘Growing Up Geek’ in the summer
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The newest episode of Growing Up Geek has been posted to www.growingupgeek.net as well as iTunes. In this episode we cover.
Show Notes
- Jason’s 7 TB Windows Home Server melted down from a known issue.
- Why do we stay away from bad hardware but flock to bad software?
- Windows Vista Upgrade prices fall. Will you upgrade now?
- AOL officially drops support for the Netscape web browser.
- Is Apple turning into Microsoft by using secret APIs to make Safari faster than Firefox on OS X?
- $0.62 to store 3 GB of data off site for 1 month? Trevor’s JungleDisk experience.
- AO (Adult Only) games. Why can’t we buy them like we buy porn?
- What’s up with EGM’s new game rating system?
- We discuss the new ‘Knight Rider’.
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The newest episode of Growing Up Geek has been posted to www.growingupgeek.net as well as iTunes. In this episode we cover.
Show Notes
- HD DVD is dead. What now?
- Jason discusses his experiences with Windows Home Server.
- Why game delays piss us off.
- How downloadable content on today’s consoles is changing today’s gaming landscape.
- Why are we buying games we already own?
- Games we wish would come over from Japan.
- Firefox hits 500,000,000 downloads.
- We remember the legacy that was Netscape.
- Does anyone still actually use AOL?
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So I had a hearing today for an accident I was involved in back in October 2007. I was rear-ended by a gentleman who was intoxicated with not only alcohol, but also narcotics. Of course he left the scene. So we had to wait until about 12:30 for the trial to start, when it was scheduled for 11:15. But that’s not really the problem I have with the waisted time. This was only a pre-liminary hearing to see if there was enough evidence against the defendant for us to go to trial. So after having me there to testity as well as a Pennsylvania State Trooper, and a Sergeant from the Pocono Mountain Regional Police we are told that we have sufficient evidence to proceed to trial which will more then likely take place in May. There is actually a whole lot more to the whole thing, but that’s just a lot of typing, and some other information I would prefer not to publicly talk about at the moment.
Onto the next topic. The podcast is officially on iTunes now. It has not fully propegrated all of the feed information. We have most of it in there, but the album artwork has not been cached yet. We also have an explicit tag, so all of youngsters out there beware, it is not for your gentle ears. This week we are planning on covering some current tech topics, as well as some gaming issues. I will of course be talking about Windows Home Server as promised toward the end of last weeks episode. I should get back to work on my materials. I’m not really sure all of what I will be talking about. But maybe I will start to put up information I talk about on the Podcast up on the site here. I can even get like John C. Dvorak and plug my blog all the time.
That’s all I’ve got for the time being. I think I’m doing well on keeping up on my blog. I think I will try to post at least once a week, but I am really trying for almost everyday. Just depends on all of what I have to say.
Technorati Tags: Accident, Growing Up Geek, Hearing, Judicial, Podcast, Waste of Time
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