Macintosh

An old buddy of mine has been thinking about picking up a Mac for some time now, but he didn’t know where to start. After I penned a note outlining the most affordable choices, it dawned on me that I should share the info with my gnomie buddies … so, how about them cheap apples?
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I’m kicking myself. The hard drive in my MacBook went south this week. I didn’t lose a huge amount of data due to the crashed notebook drive … just one thing … a portion of my old email. Nearly everything else was backed up in one place or another. Losing six months of email to [...]

While this is the Lockergnome Windows Fanatic, it’s well worth noting that two heralded Apple products are hitting the streets this weekend. The least expensive Macintosh ever (dare we say ‘cheapest’), the diminutive Mac Mini, makes its retail debut along with the iPod shuffle, Apple’s latest salvo in its digital music phenomafamily.

Apple’s new iMac G5 was unveiled today at the Apple Expo in Paris. c|net is calling it “Apple Computer’s fall fashion statement.” I’m calling it an ode to the iPod. The iMac G4’s desk-lamp-stuck-into-a-Hostess-Snowball rig has been jettisoned in favor of a clean one piece design that mimics the iPod’s look and feel. While I [...]

I bought a new Apple iMac this week. It wasn’t just that I’d had enough of my PC’s recent bout with spyware infestation. I just picked up a little contract gig that required a Macintosh … And my old Macs just weren’t up to snuff. I needed something with enought horsepower and screen real estate [...]