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  1. My turn with the Apple iPad

    Everyone else has had a go, so it’s my turn to give my impressions of the Apple iPad. I believe that the future is about Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) or it’s non-computing equivalent, making continually more complex functionality simple enough for everyone to use, and I think that Apple are of the same mind.

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  2. Another Snow Leopard upgrade story

    The time had come to upgrade our MacBook Pros to Snow Leopard. Not wishing to break my partner’s laptop, I decided to see if the upgrade route would work using my machine as a testbed. Would I live to regret it…

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  3. The MacBook’s back

    I went over to the Apple Centre in Solihull, that’s in the UK, to pick up my newly repaired MacBook Pro this Monday. I thought I’d wait a bit before posting the results to make sure that the fix actually worked. I can’t fault the service I received from the Apple Centre, but the quality [...]

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  4. The thing about Apple

    Back in the System 6 era, Apple Macs were niche products; well made, often expensive and largely found in academic circles. I always felt the problem was that Apple had a clearly superior product, but were just plain rubbish at marketing themselves. Wow, times sure change! My first Apple was back in the days of [...]

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  5. A new MacBook Pro

    I’m an Apple user that recently I splashed out on a 15 inch, 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro. So why am I having to write this on my old Mac mini? The day came and I received my MacBook Pro; beautifully presented in carefully designed and executed packaging. I opened it up and was immediately impressed [...]

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