The recent devastating floods in Thailand have caused huge hardship and misery to many people and our thoughts are with them. Another effect of the floods has been the dramatic shortage in production of hard disk drives. Thailand is a major manufacturer of components and finished drives and the effects of the inundation are immediately being reflected […]
New MacBook Pro
State-of-the-art Intel processors The 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro now feature quad-core Intel Core i7 processors. And the 13-inch models jump to dual-core Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. All models are up to 2x faster. Thunderbolt. The next generation of I/O New Thunderbolt technology lets you connect high-performance peripherals and high-resolution displays to one […]
Bruised, but not beaten!
Looking in the rear vision mirror while travelling at 100kph down Great Northern Highway, I see a small black shape flying through the air, spinning wildly before crashing to the highway and bouncing with decreasing heights until coming to a standstill on the dotted line. I then realise I had left my iPhone on the […]
iMac
The new iMac Big, beautiful displays. 21.5- and 27-inch displays. Today’s iMac has come a long way from the first 15-inch iMac. Take one look and you’ll see just how far. A 21.5- or 27-inch display with edge-to-edge glass covers nearly the entire front of the enclosure. When all you see is the display, nothing […]
Apple OS X Lion
To upgrade your Mac to OS X Lion, you don’t need to drive to a store, bring home a box and install a bunch of discs. All you do is click the Mac App Store icon, buy Lion and your Mac does the rest. Just make sure you have what you need to get your hands […]