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    Could This Be Apple's New Miniature Dock Connector?

    The dock connector has much more capability than a USB cable. For example: Video out. Many phone manufacturers either use mini HDMI + mini USB, or they just don't support it.
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    Taking a Peek Inside the MacBook Pro's Retina Display

    Here are the comments if this was on a computer without an Apple logo: "Wow, can't wait to get my hands on it." "True innovation right here, in only 15 inches? JESUS!" "WINDOWS WILL LOOK AMAZING ON THIS THING!" "PC-1 MAC-0" "They built the LCD right into the exterior frame? Wow, who thought of...
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    U.S. PC Market Wraps Up Worst Year Since 2001

    As much as many would love to believe, DIY is an incredibly small market. Even then, they probably posted losses. Software just can't keep up with hardware these days. I still have software that doesn't have multicore support.
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    Steve Jobs' Salary Was $1, But What About Tim Cook?

    Steve Jobs received 5.5 million shares in 1997. He has received no other compensation from Apple after 1997. No bonuses, no salary. He effectively made $24 from 1997 to 2011 by working at Apple. Accusing him of tax evasion just shows how ignorant these Apple haters are.
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    After Amazing Earnings, is Apple Invincible?

    sykozisCan someone please show me exactly where this "innovation" is that Apple keeps getting praised for? To create the iPhone, they added a microphone to the iPod Touch. SmartPhones existed long before this happened. They created a tablet, more than a decade after the "tablet" market first...
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    After Amazing Earnings, is Apple Invincible?

    If it was overpriced, it wouldn't capture over 60% of the market. Lets face it. The iPhone and iPad are priced reasonably. The Xoom and Galaxy Tab 10.1 are both priced very similarly to the iPad. Most major phones are sold in the $200 range. Their CPU products are a different story, which...
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    After Amazing Earnings, is Apple Invincible?

    The only cult here is Apple haters. Unless you consider mainstream to be a cult. Lets face it. Apple won the phone and tablet wars for at least another 2 years. Mainstream customers aren't concerned about having the highest possible RAM on a phone. They don't care about having the latest...
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    HP Scrambling to Meet Demand for Windows Slate

    VladislausThose number were 8 months after the launch of the ipad. I know. It's hard to believe. 300,000 iPads sold on launch day. But trust me, it is real. Look it up. talzaraThere is a group of Tablet PC fanatics who realize that real tablets can run real applications, like Onenote and...
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    HP Scrambling to Meet Demand for Windows Slate

    LOL. 9000 orders. This is a massive FLOP. The iPad did 300k in ONE DAY. 10mil by end of 2010. 9000 orders 'scrambling to meet demand'? Don't make me laugh. Enterprise? "The company found that during the past eight months over 4,000 enterprises adopted the iPad and their deployments...
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    Windows 7 Ad Highlights Mac's Lack Of Blu-ray

    I don't own a single Bluray disc. I find downloading movies to be much more economical for my college budget. But yeah, I guess if I could afford Bluray movies over renting DVDs at redbox for $1 a day having the ability to play it on my 13.3" screen would be nice?
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    What the Guts of a Samsung Galaxy Tab Look Like

    Plastic as the outside material. Fail.
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    StarCraft 2 Players Get 1 Free Name Change

    They charge $10 to prevent the resale of accounts.
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    Shocking: Did the W3C Sell Out to Microsoft?

    Anyone with half a brain would realize testing unreleased products vs released products (when their beta release is available) is unfair.
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    Nvidia GPU Settlement Covers Apple, Dell, and HP

    13 Million for lawyers. 2 Million for customers with actual problems.
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    HP: Our WebOS Devices Will be Similar to the iPad

    Because you can easily mount an iPad onto your car dash, and a netbook can't (not easily at least)? Because you can use the 10 hour battery in a 1.5lb form factor? Because a netbook is dreadfully slow, and an iPad has a matching CPU/GPU/OS package? Because multitouch makes sense in a mobile...