Here’s one excellent video showing Adam Reeder sculpting a figure of Plato holding an iPad in time lapse. In a post at StudioRealism Videos: This sculpture series, “Socio-Technic Evolution”, is about “how technology changes the way western culture interacts with it’s world”. I am allowing these videos of figurative sculptures to be experienced as I [...]
Archive for category Hardware
Apple today quietly updated its most affordable Mac portable. The update brings the white MacBook at par with the low-end 13.3″ MacBook Pro in terms of processor, hard drive space, graphics processor, and battery life. The current MacBook specs read: 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB DDR3 memory 250GB hard drive 8x double-layer SuperDrive NVIDIA [...]
Apple in a press release announced the availability of the iPad in 18 more countries by July this year. All of the iPad models will be available starting May 28 in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Customers in these nine countries can start pre-ordering today. Nine more countries, Austria, [...]
EMC Marketing Executive Chuck Hollis wrote on his blog about how his family has reacted to the iPad. Initially: My wife and kids summed it up in 30 seconds. “Oh no, Dad bought another toy”. “Why do we need something else with a CPU in it?”. “What does it replace?”. And so on. Which later [...]
Firmware Restoration CD 1.8, Graphics Firmware Update 1.0, and iMac Late 2009 Windows 7 Drivers
Jan 20
The Firmware Restoration CD can restore the firmware of an Intel-based Macintosh computer. Restoring your firmware will reset some of your computer’s preferences to defaults. You can only use this to restore the firmware after an interrupted or unsuccessful update. If your computer is already in this state, you’ll need to download the software and [...]
Iron Mac
Jan 20
TUAW featured an Iron Man sticker mod for the MacBook at Etsy. The sticker cost $16.00 plus shipping (for international orders). The sticker mod looks real cool but I think it will only fit on a 15-inch MacBook Pro. I’d go for sticker that features Apple, Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs but to avoid being called [...]
The latest data from market research firm NPD Group shows Apple performing very well in U.S. PC sales for the month of October. The 21.5-inch iMac and 27-inch iMac are in first and third place, respectively, under the desktop category while the low-end 13-inch MacBook Pro took the top spot in notebook sales figures. Apple [...]
AppleInsider reported that a small number of 27-inch Core-i7 iMacs are showing up dead on arrival. In some of the cases, users would hear the boot up chime after the power button has been pressed but nothing would show up on the screen. Worse, a few of the units arrived with a cracked display. There [...]
I’ve posted bits about how the latest 27-inch iMac has been gaining praises from various review sites which includes Macworld which said, “Apple has not only blurred the line between consumer and professional systems, it’s darn near erased it.” With one writer for The Mac Observer going as fas as issuing an obit for the [...]
The 27-inch quad-core iMacs continue to gain praises. Last week, I posted a review from Electronista where it wassaid: The 27-inch iMac is already a milestone for Apple through its inclusion of a truly greater-than-HD display, but the addition of Core i5 and Core i7 processors transforms it into a near powerhouse. This is the [...]
Here’s something I’d like to have for my 13″ MacBook Pro and, if I had one, for my iPod touch: skins with designs from Tim Burton’s stories. The three characters choices are: Stain Boy, The Pin Cushion Queen, and Oyster Boy, which is taken from the book “The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy”. Unfortunately, these [...]
LED Cinema Display iSight Firmware Update 1.0 corrects an issue with the built-in iSight camera on the LED Cinema Display where the camera may not be recognized by applications. To complete the firmware update process, please follow the instructions in the updater application (/Applications/Utilities/LED Cinema Display iSight Camera Firmware Update.app). For more information about this [...]
This is a follow-up on my post about the Late-2009 iMacs, particularly the high-end 27-inch systems. Electronista just published their Core i5 27-inch iMac review and their benchmarks show that the Core i5 iMac is almost 50% faster than the 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo 24-inch iMac with 3GB of RAM and a Radeon HD 2600 [...]
