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>> Wednesday, 26 Nov 2008

Macworld Team: What chance a Apple netbook in 2009?

By Cyrus Farivar

So it's no secret that lots of people are desperately pining for a netbook, a small, trimmed-down laptop that would be a bit easier to tote around than a full-fledged laptop.

>> Tuesday, 18 Nov 2008

Macworld Team: Bugs & Fixes: When MobileMe contacts will not delete

By Ted Landau

When I first gave MobileMe a spin months ago, I synced my Address Book contacts to the cloud. Recently, I wanted to clear those contacts from MobileMe. You might think this would be easy to do. You'd be wrong.

>> Friday, 14 Nov 2008

Macworld Team: The book of MacBook

By Dan Moren

People keep asking me about my new MacBook. The machines came out about a month ago, but that clearly hasn’t been enough time for people to get their fill of Apple’s latest portable lineup. I have to remind myself that these are, for the most part, civilians: people who don’t eat, drink, breathe, and immerse themselves in all things Apple.

>> Thursday, 13 Nov 2008

Macworld Team: Biggest threat Windows 7: Journalists

By Robet X Cringely

CNET blogger Don Reisinger has an interesting take on the biggest threat to the success of Windows 7: Journalists. His reason?

>> Monday, 10 Nov 2008

Macworld Team: Remembering Michael Crichton

By Rob Griffiths

I was deeply saddened to read of the passing of Michael Crichton, at the way-too-young age of 66. Michael was an amazingly talented individual, as evidenced by his background—a Harvard-educated medical doctor who wrote The Andromeda Strain while still in medical school, and then wrote (and directed the movie version of) The Great Train Robbery.

Macworld Team: Is Yahoo dead?

By Robert X. Cringely

The problem with writing about the endless Microsoft-Yahoo-Google mini-series is eventually you run out of metaphors. So I'll quote Michael Corleone: "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."

>> Thursday, 06 Nov 2008

Mark Hattersley: Loving the MacBook Air

Will the MacBook kill the MacBook Air? Screamed a headline I read recently. "Er, no" was the rather sheepish answer. But the MacBook Pro is in serious danger of killing my back, and I've developed a newfound love of my Air as a result.

Macworld Team: Microsoft haters, Mac daddies and Linux lovers

By Robert X. Cringely

Now that the elections are finally over, let's focus on something even more contentious -- the holy war over operating systems. I've gotten a lot of responses regarding my Halloween post on Microsoft's "I'm a PC" marketing campaign and Windows 7. Some good, some bad, and some plug-ugly.

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Business

You might think of Windows when you consider business computing, but the Mac is a powerful alternative used by many leading companies. Microsoft Office works on a Mac and there are a wealth of Mac business applications.

Analyst: Apple's Black Friday sales look strong

If the business Apple did on Black Friday is any indication, the holiday season could be a very happy one indeed for the computer maker. That's according to research from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who's been tracking Apple sales leading up to holiday season.

Reviews

MacBook Pro 17-inch speedtest

MacBook Pro 17-inch speedtest

When Apple updated the MacBook, the upgrade to the 17-inch MacBook Pro was somewhat overlooked. Here we speedtest Apple's high-end laptop.

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