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iPad battery life impresses, lives up to Apple’s hype
Promises of long battery life on tech devices tend to be looked at with skepticism. And rightly so. Often times, when a manufacturer says that such and such a product can run for ‘x’ amount of hours between charges, the fine print typically mentions a few caveats, such as screen brightness turned half way down [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s “history of lousy first reviews”
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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From the original Mac to the iMac to the iPod and even the iPhone, early reviews of revolutionary products tend to evoke a lot of negative reactions. The Week takes us back in time and examines what reviewers have historically thought about Apple’s latest and greatest creations.
Continue reading...Andy Ihnatko on the Nexus One
Sunday, January 24, 2010
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Chicago Sun-Times columnist and MacBreak weekly mainstay Andy Ihnatko recently penned a review of the Google Nexus One. As with every other “iPhone killer” to come down the pipeline, Ihnatko found the Nexus One to be the best of the Android bunch, but far from a true threat to the iPhone. Here are a few [...]
Continue reading...Gizmodo gets hands-on with the Google Nexus One while Engadget reveals the specs
Thursday, December 24, 2009
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The Google phone is a reality, and Gizmodo was able to get a little bit of play time in with the device, though they were unfortunately precluded from taking any pics. In any event, here’s what they had to say.
Continue reading...Apple’s new Magic Mouse looks great, feels okay, and sorely lacks support for Expose and Dashboard
Monday, November 16, 2009
Apple may have introduced the mouse to the masses, but superior mouse design has never been Apple’s forte. That’s not to say that all of Apple’s mice have been subpar (though the ill-fated hockey puck mouse that came with the first iMac comes to mind), but Apple, when it comes to mouse design, often seems [...]
Continue reading...TechCrunch pits the iPhone vs. the Motorola Droid
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Check out Greg Kumparak’s full review over here. If you’re pressed for time and need to get your trick-or-treat on, here are his final thoughts. What do I think of the Droid? It is incredible. It is, hands down, the nicest Android handset on the market. A very significant chunk of this is not so [...]
Continue reading...Gizmodo reviews the new 27-inch iMac
Friday, October 23, 2009
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Gizmodo put up a solid in-depth review of Apple’s new 27 inch beast of an iMac. Check it out over here. Big beautiful screen is super high res and bright. Chassis design evolving to new heights of beauty; less chin. Faster parts not out yet; current components available in previous generation. No Blu-ray player, touchscreen or [...]
Continue reading...CNET reviews the Psystar OpenQ [Video]
Sunday, October 11, 2009
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Ah Psystar, a shady company that gives us much to write about. But sometimes lost in their ongoing legal battle with Apple is the fact that they actually manufacture PC’s running OS X that they then sell to the public at large. With that in mind, it’s only natural to wonder what exactly the Psystar [...]
Continue reading...Mossberg hails Windows 7 as the best Windows yet
Friday, October 9, 2009
WSJ columnist Walt Mossberg is a big fan of Windows 7, and calls it the closest thing to a Mac like experience to ever come out of Redmond. After using pre-release versions of Windows 7 for nine months, and intensively testing the final version for the past month on many different machines, I believe it [...]
Continue reading...“It still sucks” – Windows Mobile 6.5 is universally panned by critics
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
As companies like Apple and Palm continue to push forward with substantial smartphone features and improvements, Microsoft continues to lag far behind and its latest offering, Windows Mobile 6.5, recently debuted to a nearly universal critical thrashing. Writing for Gizmodo, John Herrman writes on Windows Mobile 6.5: I really didn’t want to beat up on [...]
Continue reading...New iPod Nano already getting favorable reviews
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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Check out these early and positive reviews of Apple’s new iPod Nano. Jim Dalrymple from LoopInsight likes the bigger screen, the pedometer.. hell, he likes the whole damn thing! And Tim Gideon of PC Mag writes that the new iPod Nano is so impressive as to warrant PC Mag’s Editor’s Choice award: While the iPod [...]
Continue reading...John Siracusa’s exhaustive and definitive Snow Leopard review
Monday, August 31, 2009
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If you’ve never had the pleasure of reading John Siracusa’s epic reviews of OS X releases, then rest assured – today is a good day. As opposed to most other reviews which robotically go over a few number of features, which are then balanced out with a few complaints, Siracusa puts new OS X releases [...]
Continue reading...Snow Leopard reviews start trickling in
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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Snow Leopard goes on sale this Friday, but a few lucky souls were given advanced copies of the OS and their reviews just went up a short while ago. Engadget’s Review of Snow Leopard: Here’s the thing about Snow Leopard, the single inescapable fact that hung over our heads as we ran our tests and [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 3G S review roundup
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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Wow, Apple sure gave out a lot of preview copies of its new iPhone 3G S. In the past, the only people Apple blessed with demo devices were David Pogue of the NY Times, Steven Levy (formerly of Newsweek, and now with Wired), trusty ole’ Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, and perhaps a [...]
Continue reading...Andy Ihnatko reviews the Palm Pre – “WebOS isn’t terribly elegant”
Friday, June 12, 2009
Andy Ihnatko on the Palm Pre: Yesterday, I led off my thoughts about the Palm Pre (available right now from Sprint for $199 with contract). The takeaways: I think the keyboard is horrible and the user interface of Palm’s new WebOS isn’t terribly elegant. In places, it’s actively clumsy and confusing. Palm has a lot [...]
Continue reading...The Pre ain’t no iPhone killer, and here’s why
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Okay, so I finally got my hands on a Pre today (courtesy of a friend who was able to lend it to me for about 30 minutes) and dare I say that I came away feeling underwhelmed. Now before anyone jumps up and says that I’m being biased, let me make clear that I’ve been [...]
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
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