Conroy’s fibre claims “absolute tripe”, says Turnbull

Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has labelled the idea that the next generation of consumer services could only be delivered over fibre-optic cable \”nonsense\” and \”absolute tripe\”, in a fiery interview in which he highlighted the strengths of rival wireless technologies.Just yesterday, NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley expressed his… via Conroy’s fibre claims “absolute […]

Macrumors claims LightPeak Known As ThunderBolt? Not so fast….

Here take a look at this image from MacRumors.com… The rumor sites are just insane these days.  Now this is clearly the same port layout as the current generation of Macbook Pro\’s.  How do I know?  I just glanced at it. Now that could mean that it\’s a perfectly good displayport there that someone photoshopped […]

The downside to outsourcing subscriptions

Ben Brooks has written two great posts about Apple\’s plan to take 30% of subscription revenues sold through its App Store. In the first one he notes:Apple is giving you an out from customer service. If someone needs to unsubscribe or has issues with their subscription… Read  The downside to outsourcing subscriptions.

Best Buy listing suggests five new Macbooks incoming

AppleInsider reports that Apple partner Best Buy, one of the biggest resellers of Apple\’s products, has begun listing five SKU\’s for new Macbook notebooks, starting at $1,199 and ranging up to $2,499.The SKU\’s were spotted by Engadget, listed within Best Buy\’s online Laptop Configuration tool, each one labelled with a… Read more at Best Buy […]

New Apple Laptop SKU’s Spotted on Best Buy’s System

Apple reseller and partner, Best Buy is listing new SKU\’s from Apple that haven\’t been announced yet. Best Buy\’s laptop discovery tool points out new models from Apple including one identified only as \”New SKU I,\”, which should be the likely 17 inch MacBook Pro model that Apple plans to… via New Apple Laptop SKU’s […]

Random freezing from Snow Leopard? Insert-Hang-Detected?

Is your Macintosh hanging up ocassionally with the Beach Ball of Doom?  Check your console.log….  And see if you see this: Sep 11 18:03:00 Perseus kernel[0]: Sep 11 18:03:01: — last message repeated 1 time — Sep 11 18:03:01 Perseus Safari254: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx time:21.280277, # of Inserts: 1, # of bytes written: 157639, Did shrink: […]