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- Zune Headquarters Hosts iPod Amnesty Bin
Fimoculous brought Microsoft's iPod Amnesty Bin at the Zune Headquarters recently. Looks pretty empty to me -- think team members are taking the discards home to use instead of their Zunes? Or is it a place for iPods to escape...Fimoculous brought Microsoft's iPod Amnesty Bin at the Zune Headquarters recently. Looks pretty empty to me -- think team members are taking the discards home to use instead of their Zunes? Or is it a place for iPods to escape from Microsoft's labs where they were getting dissected and copied?
iPod Amnesty Bin on Flickr
Via TUAW.
Pete Mortensen - Mac Mini is Unloved, Not Dead in the Water
I'm genuinely puzzled by AppleInsider's melodramatic post pronouncing the death of the Mac mini. The article recounts Apple's many slights of its lowest-end platform and then proceeds to show know evidence that the line will soon be killed off. It...I'm genuinely puzzled by AppleInsider's melodramatic post pronouncing the death of the Mac mini. The article recounts Apple's many slights of its lowest-end platform and then proceeds to show know evidence that the line will soon be killed off.
It has seen just four updates since inception, one of which was so insignificant in Apple's own eyes that the company didn't even bother to draft a press release. Even now, the current minis' 1.66GHz and 1.83GHz Core Duo processors are a far cry from the silicon offered in the rest of Apple's PC offerings.
Well, that's actually to be expected. And I would say that hardware is significantly better than a lot of low-end PCs from other manufacturers. But that's neither here nor there. Apple needs the Mac mini just to get people looking for a cheap Mac in the door. The AppleTV might be incredibly popular as a hackable Mac substitute, but that's not what it is out of the box. Apple still needs a low-end entry, and the Mac mini costs very little to develop and revise. I don't see Apple just walking away.
And this quote says it all:
Whether Apple will squeeze another revision from the mini, and how long it plans to allow existing models to linger, are both unclear.
Oh, so at some point in the future, possibly after Apple releases new Mac minis, Apple will stop selling the Mac mini. Yep, dead as a doornail. What?
AppleInsider | Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini
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Pete Mortensen - Found Video: Homebrew PVR Software Running on AppleTV
Well, that's the missing link resolved. The above video depicts an AppleTV running MythTV, an open-source PVR program. If the AppleTV hard drive were a little bit bigger, it would officially be a real TiVo challenger. Will Apple ever release...Well, that's the missing link resolved. The above video depicts an AppleTV running MythTV, an open-source PVR program. If the AppleTV hard drive were a little bit bigger, it would officially be a real TiVo challenger. Will Apple ever release official PVR support?
YouTube - MythTV On AppleTV
Via Digg.Technorati Tags: appleTV, mythtv
Pete Mortensen - Large Gallery of "See-Through" Powerbook Screens
Remember that video years ago of the "transparent" Powerbook screen? Someone has compiled a gallery of photos demonstrating the same principle. There's an odd beauty here. Check it out. Fun 4 Amdavadi Gujarati Via Digg. Technorati Tags: powerbook...Remember that video years ago of the "transparent" Powerbook screen? Someone has compiled a gallery of photos demonstrating the same principle. There's an odd beauty here. Check it out.
Via Digg.
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Pete Mortensen - Tide iPod Plays Tunes, Fights Stains
I think we have a nominee for ugliest -- or prettiest? -- iPod ever, courtesy of a bizarre promotion that Procter Gamble is running to benefit the people of New Orleans. If you buy an ugly Tide t-shirt for $10,...I think we have a nominee for ugliest -- or prettiest? -- iPod ever, courtesy of a bizarre promotion that Procter & Gamble is running to benefit the people of New Orleans. If you buy an ugly Tide t-shirt for $10, you can win an iTunes gift certificate or a bright orange, Tide-branded iPod. A nano, from the looks of it. No word on whether they'll also brand you forehead with Tide.
Vintage T-shirts from Tide.com
Via Kristofer Brozio.
Pete Mortensen - Are Tech Analysts Ganking Rumors from Prominent Mac Sites?
MacRumors founder Arnold Kim makes a very interesting point regarding the rumored new MacBook Pros and iMacs that Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster unleashed on an unwitting public yesterday. Like many others, I was fairly impressed that Munster took the...
MacRumors founder Arnold Kim makes a very interesting point regarding the rumored new MacBook Pros and iMacs that Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster unleashed on an unwitting public yesterday. Like many others, I was fairly impressed that Munster took the trouble to determine the average life cycle of both iMac and MacBook Pro generations.Well, as it turns out, Munster might not have calculated the numbers himself:
These numbers correlate exactly to the [MacRumors] Buyer's Guide averages. Some have asked couldn't he have come up with these numbers on his own? It's possible, but exceedingly unlikely as he would have had to choose the same releases (2002 PowerBook, 2003 iMac) to start counting in order to achieve the exact same averages.
Kim also implies that Munster's assumption that Apple will release new Macs at WWDC might be directly drawn from an earlier ThinkSecret report, which makes the reliability of tech analysts' reports about Macs questionable. Which they absolutely are.
Apple is the rare computer company that won't play nice and let analysts see their stuff earlier than the general public. There's no question that most reports or based on assumptions and reading rumor sites. I do question a commenter's conclusion that any of this is new. From what I can tell, the Mac rumor sites have been ahead of the analysts since the day Steve came back.
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