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Poll: Did The Onion's predicted Apple backlash actually start today? {Engadget}
Mar 21st 2008 10:01PM That charge for the update is not Apple's choice. They are required by law to charge for that update. Users of the iPhone do not have to pay because it is figured into their monthly bills. The same thing happened when the 802.11n routers were released and Apple had to charge for the internal Extreme Card updates. It's a stupid law, but they have to follow it.
Apple MacBook Pro (with Penryn and multi-touch) unboxing {Engadget}
Feb 28th 2008 3:39PM OMFG... I'm getting tired of people stretching this designs life out further and further. It's not a decade, eight years or even five years old. It's two years old. If you put this thing side by side with a last gen Powerbook they are similar, but they are quite a bit different. The MBP is thinner, has cleaner vent placement and no ugly grey plastic on the one side of the lid. They are much easier to get into now, no spring loaded battery button.
Similar, but it's different. So, by my count that makes this design just over two years old and only a year and half if you count the addition of the Firewire 800 port in mid 2006.
Oh, and a decade old would make the MPB out of black plastic and five years+ would make the MPB a Titanium form factor with a black keyboard and the worst hinge design of all time.
End rant.
Apple sued over iPhone caller ID {Engadget}
Feb 28th 2008 11:35AM It has to do completely with photo size. If it's a transfer from contacts it will be small and if you took it with your phone it will fill the screen. That's all she wrote.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Just let them know directly how you feel and that you want it changed. The Engineers are not going to look engadget for these things.
Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro get refreshed with faster CPUs, multi-touch {Engadget}
Feb 26th 2008 9:07AM It looks like the price of ram upgrades has dropped dramatically on every Mac on the site! Nice.
Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro get refreshed with faster CPUs, multi-touch {Engadget}
Feb 26th 2008 8:52AM So because the crap hit the fan with HD DVD last week Apple was somehow supposed to fully integrate all of their line with Bluray just in time for the Tuesday release? Get real. Give another update and it will be there.
Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro get refreshed with faster CPUs, multi-touch {Engadget}
Feb 26th 2008 8:50AM The ambient light sensor has been around for years, dating back to the powerbook. It's what controls the backlighting for the keypad and the LCD.
Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro get refreshed with faster CPUs, multi-touch {Engadget}
Feb 26th 2008 8:44AM It's called "two fingers and click". How do people not get this? There will never be a split track button on an Apple laptop.
Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro get refreshed with faster CPUs, multi-touch {Engadget}
Feb 26th 2008 8:43AM It looks like the cost of the ram upgrade to 4GB has been more than cut in half... still too much though.
Elekit's TU-873KEII tube amplifier for DIYers who can {Engadget}
Feb 8th 2008 10:30AM Actually, any freq below 20Hz or above 20kHz is going to be for harmonics. Those freqs taken out will produce a washy flat sound, this is why all mp3's suck. Those upper freqs interact with the freqs that are within the human range and create certain harmonics that are necessary to reproduce an accurate to source sound. I would love to hear this on a well recorded drum track. Probably sounds like pure aural sex.
Keepin' it real fake, part CIX: C-002 HiPhone ups the ante {Engadget}
Feb 6th 2008 1:08PM Those of you who keep talking about how we might now "know what apple really pays" for the iphone must have no idea how businesses work. There's more than just the cost of building the thing. You have to pay for R/D, continued software work, retail costs (employees, buildings, ect). There's a lot more to it than just paying for the hardware. I'm not saying that Apple is just breaking even by any means, but at the end of the day they are a business and making a profit off of what you make/sell is kind of the point, right?
Also, these things are total pieces of s**t. The interface looks about as stable as the Acer desktop GUI of old. If you want an iPhone, buy an iPhone, but this thing is nowhere near an iPhone. It is what it is... a cheap imitation. If this company made an imitation MacBook Pro that looked "almost" the same and had an OS that looked sorta like OS X would you buy it? Hell no! Why? You would stay away knowing that it's probably some form of Windows, probably 3.1 or '95, with a GUI redesign.
...oh boy...
