Along With iPad Mini: iMac / Mac Mini Updates, And 13″ Retina MacBook
Rumors now predict iMac / Mac Mini updates plus a 13″ Retina MacBook dropping along with the iPad Mini next week. Personally excited for the Mac Mini update – been waiting since WWDC earlier this year....
View ArticleOn SNL “Tech Talk”
Amusing recent SNL bit, framing iPhone 5 gripes as trivial in the larger scheme of things; or simply “first world problems.” Yeah, am guilty of privileged complaints. Looking back through posts:...
View ArticleOn Google’s Earnings Miss
So Google earnings were rather messily leaked today, and they weren’t good. Traditional desktop ad revenue is down, and most bluntly, mobile ad revenue may not be rising fast enough to replace it. The...
View ArticleOn The iPad Mini Special Event
Thoughts on today’s Apple product updates: iPad Mini Sounds like Apple hit the sweet spot of a smaller iPad to carry in one hand, but not so small that iPad apps became unusable. The cheapest price...
View ArticleOn Apple Earnings
Apple announced Q4 earnings, and while they made a pile, it wasn’t enough to meet analyst expectations, resulting in a rare miss. And I think there’s a problem brewing. It has nothing to do with...
View ArticleLate 2012 Mac Mini
Ordered the middle-of-the-road Mac Mini (2.3 GHz, quad core i7) last week and spent the past few days putting it through its paces. Thoughts: The Good Definitely speedier than the Late 2009, Core Duo...
View ArticleMac Mini RAM Upgrade Sans Putty Knife
Just replaced the new Mac Mini‘s standard 4GB RAM with 16GB. And man, this procedure was super easy compared to the veritable lock-picking needed with earlier Mac Minis. The biggest change: no putty...
View ArticleOn Recent Apple Stock Weakness
Apple stock has fallen under significant pressure recently, slipping from $700 to well beneath $600. As of this writing, it’s nearly $550 which is decidedly in “bear market” territory. Am watching this...
View ArticleOn Apple’s Fusion Drive
Interesting review of the new Fusion Drive over at CNET. It does improve performance, but you don’t have control over which files go to the SSD or slower, traditional hard drive, and there’s some funky...
View ArticleThe Quest For Quiet
One perk about working from home is having control over the work environment. Finally got the desk, lighting, and computer set up, but today a new issue crept up: noise. Not very loud noises, but...
View ArticleRumor Of iMac Delays
Hope this isn’t true. Rumor that due to manufacturing difficulties (probably that “friction-stir welding” business with the aluminum case), the recently-announced 2012 iMacs could be delayed from...
View ArticleSteve Jobs Movie: Three Scenes
Interesting idea – three scenes in real-time, depicting the behind-the-scenes workings during the debut of the original Mac, NeXT computer, and iPod. This does leave out Jobs’ later life post Apple’s...
View ArticleOn Apple Nearing $500
Apple stock continues a notable downward slide from $700 down to $500 – as of this writing, it’s at $513. Earlier this year I purchased a fair amount of Apple stock. I remind myself now, that at the...
View ArticleOn iTunes 11
Apple just released a new version of iTunes; fiddling with it now. It’s definitely a lot faster. I’d gotten used to churning when loading app icons. Now thumbnails for movies, albums, and apps appear...
View ArticleiPhone 5 Meets Puddle
One downside of our recent relocation to Oregon: rain. And the other day the disadvantages of wet weather hit all too close to home, as my precious iPhone 5 fell into a puddle as I was exiting the car....
View ArticleiPad vs. iPad Mini
Finally got a chance to spend some quality time with an iPad Mini. Bottom line: not replacing our iPad 2 just yet. My two biggest negatives with the current iPad 2 are the lack of a Retina Display and...
View ArticleHave No Idea What’s Going On In Social Anymore
Yeah so you may have read a teenager’s thoughts on useful social tech stuff in the post-Facebook era. And it probably goes without saying I now feel totally old and out of it. Not that it really...
View ArticleClosed
So the aforementioned side project has moved onto a different phase – the hapless spouse and I just closed on a house, and entered the ranks of middle class indentured servitude for the the next few...
View ArticleOn A Cheaper iPhone
Yeah I dunno about the prospect of a cheaper iPhone. I don’t see anything wrong with offering old iPhones for less. Right now one can get an iPhone 4 – which is still, a perfectly decent iPhone for...
View ArticleWired Home Network: Worth It?
Not to skew this blog into “home improvement” but one of the first possible DIY nerd projects at the new place, is to build a home network wiring up every room. The house we’re moving into shortly is...
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