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Apple is Splitting? Nope, But My MacBook Pro is!

Published on December 7, 2007 in Personal and Apple. 5 Comments

Over the last couple weeks I have been having problems with the MacBook Pro. AppleCare has already attempted to fix the internal problems, but this time they are mostly external. Case separating, weird marks, weird noises. Being a blogger I figured, before you take it in, you get the publics opinion. I have made a short clip showing what is wrong, but basically the casing that holds in the keyboard and trackpad is separating from the body. I call this defective, if its not going to stay together, its defective. From normal use as well, the palm rests are getting black spots on them, seems like my Macs not looking to good.

For a computer worth over $3000, it has really not held up all to well. As I mentioned in another post, To Apple Care or Not To Apple Care; That is the Question, I have already had a lot replaced on this MacBook Pro, and it is now starting to fall apart. Take a look at the embedded video and let me know what you think.

So, what do you think? Should I email Steve? Call up AppleCare? Bring it to the store and ask (or demand) for a replacement? Or just suck it up?

Updated: Here are some photos:

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More iPhone in Canada Evidence

Published on December 2, 2007 in Apple. 6 Comments

When searching the apple website today, I found another iPhone slip up on the Canadian page. All loyal Canadian Apple Users have been desperately waiting and finding many leaks of the iPhone in Canada, so here is another shocking leak. It was found on http://www.apple.com/ca/retail/yorkdale/week/20071202.html

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It is also at all the other Canadian Apple Stores, here, here, here and here.

A similar leak was found by Michael Yurechko at AppleTell.

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cd ~/EDIT-XTREEM’s Blog: echo ‘Terminal’

Published on November 20, 2007 in Apple. 4 Comments

Within those daunting 300 new features of Leopard, I noticed one section that caught my eye. There were new features in Terminal, Apple’s behind the scenes shell app that also allows you to do SSH and other types of connections. It is not that frequent that Apple adds features to an application such as Terminal, but I guess in an attempt to round that number up to 300, they have added a few unusual ones. In this article, I will outline most of the new features, and give you my opinion on them, providing a few screenshots.

Inspector

First off, I am going to take a look at the Inspector. We are familiar with the Inspector from Preview and the Finder, but it has now been added to Terminal. It does not add much functionality to Terminal, but it does allow you to change the Terminal window name, the window size (measured in columns and rows), and view your active processes in Terminal. All in all, the inspector is not a very useful feature.

Themes

“Themes” is another useless yet cool feature in the new Terminal. These are basic themes, some even semi-transparent for your Terminal window. There are 7 pre-made themes, but I am sure with a bit of clever work, new themes can be added with some custom styles. I personally, think that the themes make Terminal look less geeky, but I do not think they add any functionality, and if anything, are just a distraction.

Tabbed Windows

Probably my favorite new feature in Terminal is tabs, rather than having many cluttered Terminal windows, you can simply have one window with tabs. Similar to Safari, these tabs can be re-arranged, dragged in and out of the window, and be individually closed. I really like having the non-cluttered Terminal, as I find it helps me concentrate at the task I am trying to perform, rather than being overwhelmed with the many windows I have open.

Conclusion

The new update to Terminal in Leopard adds some solid functionality, while keeping it a very stable and consistent app. I think that some of the new features are gimmicky, such as the themes and the Inspector, but I think that in the longrun, once the power of these features is fully usable, they will be useful tools to have, and many users will enjoy having them. Since I am a avid supporter of the Delicious Generation, I do like the addition of the themes to make this otherwise plain app have some color.

Thanks for reading this post, if you have any comments, please post them below, and let me know what you think. I would also like to thank Connor Cimowsky for helping me edit this post.

To Apple Care or Not To Apple Care; That is the Question: Followup Part 1

Published on November 14, 2007 in Apple. 2 Comments

After getting an overwhelming number of comments in my post, ‘To Apple Care or Not To Apple Care; That is the Question’, I have decided to post a followup. Due to the number of comments, I am going to post a few parts to this followup, stay tuned for the rest!

Nowhere in this article was resale value mentioned. When buying a two-year-old used computer, which one would you pay more for? The one with absolutely no warranty coverage whatsoever, or the one that still has a year of AppleCare left? If you’re planning on selling your Mac after two years, the AppleCare could easily pay for itself, even if you never had to get a repair (as long as you don’t void your warranty through liquid spill or impact damage).

This is totally valid, I having a good experience with warranties in the past, would not even consider one with out a warranty. This is a completely important point for me, and without the warranty I would be scared to buy it. If anything goes wrong, It would come down to me to fix it, or get it fixed, both at a heavy cost.
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Lights.. Camera.. Action… Final Cut Studio 2 Review

Published on November 7, 2007 in Apple and Reviews. 5 Comments

For video editors on the mac, there are a few options. Those doing home videos usually stick with iMovie, Apple’s editing program included with iLife. But those that want to do more advance things, or even want to become professional usually turn to Apple’s Final Cut Studio. Apple released the second version of Final Cut Studio in mid April this year. It includes 6 main applications, Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, SoundTrack Pro 2, Color, Compressor 3 and DVD Studio Pro 4. This is the first major release to support the Intel Processors, a .1 release was made available as a crossgrade, but it was not a full release. There have been tons of upgrades to all of the applications.

In this review I am going to cover all 6 of the applications included in Final Cut Studio 2.

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To Apple Care or Not To Apple Care; That is the Question

Published on November 6, 2007 in Apple and Reviews. 105 Comments

When buying a new mac many people are faced with the hard truth. Macs aren’t cheap, nor are repairs. As you tell the sales person what you would like, or you click the add to cart button on the website, you are promptly presented with a choice, AppleCare. AppleCare is Apple’s extended warranty program. All new and refurbished macs come with 90 days of complimentary telephone support and 1 year of repairs. If you run in to an issue after that 1 year, and you are not a member of AppleCare, you will get some pretty big bills to fix your mac. Or, you could buy AppleCare, for a few hundred bucks (based one what type of mac you bought, and where you live), Apple will take care of all the faulty parts, problems and such to your mac. Of coarse if you drop it or have water damage or that kind of problem, they aren’t going to fix it.

So the question remains, “Should you buy AppleCare?”. In this post I am going to tell you my opinion, get some other users opinions, and tell you what they have done for me.
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Review: MacBook Pro 17″

Published on August 13, 2007 in Random and Apple. 6 Comments

As many of you know, I am the proud owner of a MacBook Pro 17″. I have been using it for about 2 weeks now and I think I have formed my impressions of this wonderful device.
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iLife, myLife

Published on August 8, 2007 in Personal and Apple. 3 Comments

Today Apple released a new version of iLife and iWork. They skipped ‘07 and went right to ‘08. (Just like the car companies, making ‘08 models way before ‘08)

Seeing as I just bought my MacBook Pro, I think it is kind of unfair that I need to pay $79 for a new version of iLife. So, I called up my local Apple Store, the one I bought the MacBook Pro from. They said that I could just return the MacBook Pro, but then I realized that there is a 10% restocking fee, and thats way more than the cost of iLife 08. I explained this to the guy on the phone, and he agreed that it did not make sense. He put me on hold and checked to see what he could do. After listening to Apples hold music for a few minutes he came back on the phone. “I just talked to my manager, and we can waive the restocking fee”. Ok, I replied. And I got off the phone.

I thought to my self, its going to be so much work to back up all my stuff and move it again (I did this when I got the MacBook Pro). So I am a bit caught right now, Should I return it, or should I just buy the new version? I am going to talk with apple a bit later and see what they can do.

Update:

I when to the apple store that night with my MacBook Pro in hand. They said that all they need to do is return the MBP, put it on a giftcard, and buy the MBP back. Then they remove $9.95 US from it, and you go to http://apple.com/ilife/uptodate/. For $9.95 you order iLife 08 and they ship it to your house. I did this whole proces and it worked. I am now just waiting on my shipment.