News: “Who should buy the iPad? Hint: People of a certain age (and that’s not you)”

Posted: March 8th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments »

Who should buy the iPad? Hint: People of a certain age (and that’s not you) on Betanews
Topics: IWork, MacBook

By Joe Wilcox , Betanews “Who will buy?” is the question to ask now that Apple has turned on the advertising spigot. I saw the first iPad commercial three times during yesterday’s Academy Awards program. No one should underestimate the power of…


News: “10 reasons to pass on the iPad? TUAW fact check”

Posted: February 3rd, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

10 reasons to pass on the iPad? TUAW fact check on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, IWork, Mac OS X, ITunes, MacBook, IDisk, ISight, Safari

Filed under: iPod Family, Portables, Odds and endsOver at TechRepublic’s 10 Things blog, Debra Littlejohn Shinder has posted an article called “10 reasons why I’ll be passing on the iPad.” Some of her reasoning is sound, but quite a few of her points…


News: “Ask TUAW: Power adapters, Windows 7, iWork refresh, and more”

Posted: February 3rd, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

Ask TUAW: Power adapters, Windows 7, iWork refresh, and more on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: Mac OS X, ILife, IWork, MacBook Pro, MacBook, ITunes, Boot Camp

Filed under: Features, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAWWelcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we’ve got questions about MacBook power adapters, Windows 7 in Boot Camp and virtualization in general, resetting the Mac…


News: “Rumor: Apple Has Another Tablet In The Works. More Like A Mac Than An iPhone.”

Posted: February 1st, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Rumor: Apple Has Another Tablet In The Works. More Like A Mac Than An iPhone. on TechCrunch
Topics: MacBook Pro, IWork, MacBook Air, MacBook, Safari

In the movie Contact, when revealing to main character Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) that there is actually a second space travel machine that was being built at the same time as the first one, but in secret, S.R. Hadden (John Hurt) says, “why…


News: “Nine out of 10 premium-priced PCs sold at US retail is a Mac”

Posted: February 1st, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments »

Nine out of 10 premium-priced PCs sold at US retail is a Mac on Betanews
Topics: IWork, MacBook

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Windows 7 did little to slow the Mac’s sales trajectory during fourth quarter, according to NPD. Year over year, Apple doubled US retail unit share — from 5 percent to 10 percent — for PCs selling between $500 and $1,000….


News: “‘Apple iPad was my idea’”

Posted: January 29th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

‘Apple iPad was my idea’ on Betanews
Topics: IWork, MacBook, MacBook Pro

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews I’ve been awfully hard on Apple’s iPad, criticalness that I really should consider, for a surprising reason. With iPad, Apple took the approach that I recommended nearly a year ago. Microsoft’s current, catchy PC operating…


News: “12 reasons why I won’t buy an Apple iPad”

Posted: January 28th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

12 reasons why I won’t buy an Apple iPad on Betanews
Topics: MacBook Pro, IWork, MacBook, ITunes

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Yesterday, I asked Betanews readers if they would buy and Apple iPad. You responded with a resounding, “No!” I won’t buy one either, and I’ve got 12 reasons why. I couldn’t limit the list to the usual 10. I’ve got a dozen.For…


News: “12 reasons why I won’t buy an Apple iPadBetanews”

Posted: January 28th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

12 reasons why I won’t buy an Apple iPadBetanews on “cool” via Recommendations in Google Reader
Topics: MacBook Pro, IWork, MacBook, ITunes

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Yesterday, I asked Betanews readers if they would buy and Apple iPad. You responded with a resounding, “No!” I won’t buy one either, and I’ve got 12 reasons why. I couldn’t limit the list to the usual 10. I’ve got a dozen.For…


News: “Check Mate: Apple’s iPad and Google’s Next Move”

Posted: January 27th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Check Mate: Apple’s iPad and Google’s Next Move on O’Reilly Radar – Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.
Topics: ITunes, IWork, IBook, MacBook, MacBook Air

“I think this will appeal to the Apple acolytes, but this is essentially just a really big iPod Touch,” said Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research, adding that he expected the iPad to mostly cannibalize the sales of other Apple products. -…


News: “Hands On With Apple’s iPad, Everything But The Games”

Posted: January 27th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Hands On With Apple’s iPad, Everything But The Games [Impressions] on Kotaku
Topics: IWork, MacBook, ITunes

After burning through most of the games Apple deemed playable on its new iPad tablet computer, I ventured into the off-topic portions of the device. As an iPhone and MacBook owner, would I find the need for something in between? That I’m still…