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I know somebody that works in Mac refurbs (that's how I found out about the glass on the macbook pros)...and I can tell you that they go through the same stringent testing as new product. If visual QC catches blemishes on the case, it gets replaced …
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Forgot to mention signaling over backplanes..any high-speed signaling backplane (required for a modular computing architecture) is going to require expensive PCB materials.... (I only mentioned node card PCBs in my last post)...
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I happen to work in the CompactPCI/ATCA/MicroTCA market and am very familiar with this type of technology and I can tell you it will never happen in the consumer market. The biggest cost of electronic devices are quality PCBs and chipsets to suppor…
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Although I'm no expert, it looks like you got the unix shell prompt (and not the firmware prompt). If your computer is at least getting into Unix I doubt your hard drive is hosed. I would recommend trying a reinstall of the OS and reloading your …
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I'm running xp on a new macbook pro with Fusion 2.0 and the double finger right click works. I installed xp with bootcamp and use that volume to run a virtualized XP and I have to admit that it is quite fast (faster than I expected). I'm sure the …
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FYI I have both a time capsule and XBOX360 with wireless adaptor. When my Time Capsule first arrived I tried connecting to XBOX live through the time capsule and it was a no go A quick web search showed that most people were having the same pr…
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iPod Touch- I would have loved to see a GPS addition to the iPod Touch touch. I own a first generation iPhone and I've played with a co-workers 3G iPhone and I have to say that the GPS feature is pretty cool (but realistically, I have GPS in my car…