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  • Quote: Originally Posted by jpennington Why can't this charge/power the laptop in the car . Besides the fact that EmPower is 15VDC where as a car's is 12 which is easily overcome, ther most important fact is that the car's power is unregulated,…
  • Looks like there are dock connector-shaped indentation on the shuffle that allows it to mate with the dock, it looks like it could also allow for lanyad headphone. Unfortunately, it seems that the spacing between the dock connector (or receptacl…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by luv2playtenis please, expensive/luxery and consumer in the same sentence!!! there is a reason those don't fit together Consumer != cheap Case in point: Bose, B&O Just because someone can afford a Mac Pro do…
  • Come to think of it, HAIII Hard anodized Mac Book Pro would be awesome. for those of you who don't know, hard anodize or natural anodize is used in military gear, all the stuff you see that's sort of olive-ish, it gives more protection than norma…
  • Instead of colours, Apple has now moved on to textures on their machines, see the contrast between chrome and matt plastic/aluminum, soft-touch surfaces instead of shiny plastics. It's here where PC manufacturers have yet to catch up. Next logica…
  • The Mac desktop is pretty bad in long-term upgradability anyway, it's pretty much on par with most PC Small Form Factor cases in that you can't upgrade the MB or the Powersupply, and the low PCI slot count. Unless you intend to use any of the exp…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by shady104 why isnt the isight cam capitible with other programs. thats soo apple to do that. It IS compatible with whatever programs that chooses to implement it (grammar flame deleted -JL) Ok, here'e a list of ins…
  • When cellphones camera are so commoditised, most PC webcam manufacturer are still sticking with 640x480, Apple has a real opportunity to offer something as simple as an XGA camera, but renaming it "HD" that sounds so sexy logitech is soon to offer s…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Leonard GQuit trying to spread FUD. I'm not, Apple is, but I can see why certain configuration of ram heatsink won't be quite effective as Apple's for example Apple's heatsink on the ram goes like this: ======…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by halo1982 Most FB-DIMMs include heatsinks on them. If they don't, then don't worry about it. Apple seems to make it that if you don't use their heat sink, and RAM, it might not be best, this may be true in case the 3r…
  • How about a nice iSight HD, 640x480 is a okay for iChat, but some people do use the iSight as a somewhat decent video camera, the option to record from iSight in iMovie is quite extensive, it'd seem logical to have HD camera to go with it.
  • Since when is LED cooler than the current COLD cathode tube in the current lcd, to have LED bright enough for backlighting a large screen, it'd be so hot, or you'll need so many of them that the advantages to the tubes just isn't there... YET. Bu…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Cubit I just got back from Australia where they are also DC and all was fine. You only need the right plug. I don't think anywhere in the world uses Direct Current. You're right in that it only needs the right plu…
  • On the PB/Ibook lines you can also use the iPod travel adapter kits that converts your brick into the various prongs suitable for the outlet of the country, don't know if it's still the case with the MB/MBP, much more elegant than most travel adapte…
  • What's the front firewire port for? There's no more fire-wire iPod to be used as target disk, Serial, or USB would be a much better choice now. Granted, there's alot of 3rd party FW400 drives, FW800 or USB2 would be much better. If I'm a bit c…
  • Mail.app is creeping dangerously towards bloatware, I don't want Entourage or Outlook clone, sure make one and bundle that with iWork, but please leave Mail.app alone. HTML email, ye gods.
  • On that Benetton 170, the jpeg artifacts on the scripts almost makes it read MacBook instead of Macintosh
  • Quote: Originally posted by onlooker I Maybe the HDPTV thing with media center is something they are still putting finishing touches on? Something new, extraordinary, and fabulous for their 30th year. 30 inch iMac, an inch for every year? p…
  • I would prefer a B&O mac like the prototype actually But bose's got a long history with macs now