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I wonder how this was resolved with in-app purchases of train and air tickets - there was a dispute between the Swiss railways and Apple about this, as far as I know, since the railway company was not prepared to let Apple earn 30% off every ticket …
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Working with speech-to-text looks like fun (...) drop HTML5's H.264 support from its Chrome brewer, Google (...) (...) Mozilla rejected H.264 because it involved paying royally fees. (...)
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Quote: Originally Posted by Abster2core The LED technology is new. It is expensive. Right now the only other companies that have listed prices is LaCie* which starts at $2,650 The difference is that the LaCie is an RGB LCD. Which means it has…
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It would be even cooler if the display built into the MacBook wasn't of such cheap quality.
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Quote: Originally Posted by GMHut I'm so tired of fan boys who think that their needs are universal and that anyone who doesn't need what they need is uninformed. I'm tired of apologists for Apple not recognizing that Apple has a glaring hole you…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Folks let's clear some things up. This is a IPS panel which means it will not have the nasty colorshift of TN panels. When you see a 24" for $300 it's a TN panel folks. Let's just hope that whatever p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar A non-glossy screen, for one thing. Ahhh... thank you for mentioning it. And the ability to have up to 8GB RAM would be very welcome as well.
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+1 for DarkGoob being very right in a lot of things he/she writes in a long, well-written and thought-out comment. Maybe you should consider sending your comment to Apple - although, ecstatic from selling iPods and other iThings, they wouldn't ev…
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Wasn't there a rumour that Apple is rewriting Final Cut, because it would obviously gain from being a 64bit application, and Carbon 64bit has died an unfortunate and unforeseen death?
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Quote: Originally Posted by mello I could have sworn that there was a PC laptop out now that has a quad-core chip in it. Anyone know which laptop I'm talking about? Dell Precision M6400 and M4400 or HP EliteBook 8730W maybe?
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Quote: Originally Posted by shawnathan Apple Cinema Displays? And in keeping with today's spectacular hardware refresh, not to mention last weeks exhilarating new hardware, the Cinema Displays will be the same size as today, same resolution, s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Megawatt 17" High Resolution LED widescreen display. Is that new? I don't think the 17" is LED-backlighted. Edit: just found the option for "Optional 17-inch (diagonal) antiglare TFT widescreen LED backlit display…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JonWil But a pretty underwhelming one! Or am I missing something? You're probably missing what most of us will: the «oomph», the «je-ne-sais-quoi», the «I need to have this!» effect. Lamest update ever.
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM The US stores are up now with an improved MacBook Pro. "imperceptibly improved", you meant to say?
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacLemming It's Up! And it's very disappointing, too. Bigger HD and multi-touch... meh!
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LOL... all the daydreaming phantasies of new, more sexily-clad MBPs out the window. Only 2.5 GHz CPU, same GPU, no new keyboard, no new case. Pretty weak upgrade IMHO; I just saved a lot of $.
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Quote: Originally Posted by sennen i think the MBP will get an simple update to penryn in the next month or so, but won't get a redesign til when nehalem is out. Simple update to Penryn 2.6GHz and new MBA-style keyboard sometime in February so…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dagamer34 Now that the MacBook Air is released, it's the next MacBook Pro that will REALLY get me excited. Imagine what could be updated: New, larger touchpad with gestures. New keyboard to update with all other pr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gloss Master and Commander = hell yes. Maybe you just had the same reaction as I did... this (and the LOTR trilogy, of course) could make me buy or start to buy BD disks (as well as a PS3, if Apple doesn't start to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland They should give the MacBook the iMac styling, and combine both the MacBook and the MacBook Pro., differentiating only in screen size. No, no, no... no horrible glossy screen for the Pro 'book, please.