Posts by dcorban

Yes, because booting the OS a few seconds faster is one of the main reasons people buy Apple computers. They rake in so much profit from this.

I'd actually like to see this become moderately successful. I have no plans to buy one, but it would be good for the people who "hate Apple" to have a good tablet platform instead of the terrible Android. I say this as someone...

Google bid $4 billion, so clearly they believe that these patents were worth something. It's kind of odd to see them now saying that the patents are going for more than they are worth. Four billion dollars. It's also odd to see them...

I used Airdrop on two late 2008 MacBooks. I tried to copy over a 1GB video file. It was slow as hell for some reason. It was going to take an hour. I cancelled the copy after a few minutes. I have no idea why it was so slow. I would...

Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram More space for eyeballs to view ads... Using Safari and its Reader function not only hides the ads, but combines all pages of the article into one continuous "page". I...

Quote: On the flip side, the bundled iLife apps you get on your new notebook are tied to that hardware and won't show up as available downloads on other Macs you own. Quoted from the review. This statement is not true. I bought a...

More importantly, why would Apple do anything considering these stores are supposedly selling legit products?

I bought a new MBA and I can answer this. It appears that the App Store does not treat the pre-installed Lion as an "App". You cannot use it to install on your other computers. In fact, the store doesn't even allow a...

Quote: Originally Posted by abirozy I have the original aluminum unibody mac book that became the mac book pro: 2.4 GHZ with 4GB ram.... I am thinking of getting the new 11"MBA with 4GB of ram. 1) Is it true that I would see...

I was also wondering about this. Based on the specs, I thought the i5 Airs would just be dual-core with no hyper threading. I assumed hyper threading was only an i7 thing, if at all. I am about an hour into using my new 13" Air,...