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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:13 pm    Post subject:

Apple now third largest PC vendor in the U.S :-

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/071708-apple-now-third-largest-pc.html
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:06 pm    Post subject:

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Apple Sells $30M Worth of Apps in July, Jobs Confirms Kill Switch for iPhone Apps
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:46 pm    Post subject:

Apple and NVIDIA: MacBooks with GeForce chipsets are nearly here :-

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=626

Here's an interesting proposition/prediction..., the PC as a gaming platform 'dies a slow death' due to excessive DRM, and eventually gets replaced by the Nvidia Mac...?


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 4:04 pm    Post subject:

Greetings!
powerarmour wrote:
Here's an interesting proposition/prediction..., the PC as a gaming platform 'dies a slow death' due to excessive DRM, and eventually gets replaced by the Nvidia Mac...?

Nah. It gets replaced by a PC-like Advanced Micro Device.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:10 pm    Post subject:

Apple's MacBook/MacBook Pro Redesign: A Discussion of Specifications :-

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3431
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:17 am    Post subject:

One major problem with Mac's... Laughing :-

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:18 am    Post subject:

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Apple advises use of Mac anti-virus

A recent spate of rather ineffective viruses for Apple's Mac OS X platform has the company worried enough to recommend anti-virus programs to its users – a volte-face for many Mac fans.

According to ITWire's Stephen Withers, Apple has quietly been updating its knowledge base with an entry which “encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:43 pm    Post subject:

Indeed, the more popular an OS becomes, the more it will get attacked...

So in that respect, I'm happy that Linux still clings to a comparatively measly desktop market share... Wink

'Nix in general is a very robust kernel though, if virus writers want to get tough, then they would be in for a tough fight...
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