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PCMag offers "best" alternatives to Apple products, redefines "best" in process

by TJ Luoma (Mar 19th, 2010)

PCMag.com's recent article The Best Apple Product Alternatives couldn't smell any more like "bait" without being covered in worms. Hoping to appeal to those who have some innate desire to not buy from Apple due to "a limited budget or an anti-Apple stance," PCMag put together a list of ...

Engadget meets Woz

by Mike Schramm (Jan 4th, 2010)

Engadget's Josh Topolsky got to chat with none other than Woz recently, and they've finally shared a great video of their meeting. Woz says a lot of interesting things in the video (he runs six navigation systems at a time in his car just for comparison's sake, and carries two iPhones nowadays, ...

Snaptell for iPhone goes 2.0

by Mike Schramm (Dec 8th, 2009)

One of my favorite apps in the early days of the App Store, SnapTell Explorer, has recently updated to version 2.0, and while they've dropped the "Explorer" part and were purchased by Amazon earlier this year, the app still offers the same impressive functionality: take a shot of a book, DVD, or ...

Snow Leopard performance improvements are there, but small

by Casey Johnston (Aug 27th, 2009)

Snow Leopard is purported to provide many small but much-needed tweaks to its predecessor, Leopard. One oft-touted tweak is a speed boost, but according to tests by Macworld the performance and speed of a few different computers improved only slightly with many native tasks, and some took even ...

iPhone 3GS video vs. Flip Mino HD

by Mel Martin (Aug 5th, 2009)

It was an inevitable face off. The iPhone 3GS and the Flip Mino HD. One of our readers, Adrienne, did just such a test at the Dayton airshow July 18-19, and held the two cameras together to see how they compared. Turns out both do well, with the Mino having higher resolution, of course, and the ...

Lightroom vs. Aperture - What's Best?

by Mat Lu (Feb 19th, 2007)

Now that Adobe has officially shipped Lightroom (as we recently mentioned), the natural question is: which one is better, Lightroom or Aperture? Of course folks have been playing with the Lightroom beta for quite some time, so this is not new question, but Derrick Story over at MacDevCenter posts on ...

BBspot's iPod vs. Zune showdown: "Now that's what I call planning"

by David Chartier (Sep 29th, 2006)

Forget all the spec comparisons, VP interviews and rumor mongering that the internets have been obsessively producing since we all first learned about Microsoft's truly groundbreaking foray into the DAP market. BBspot has cut through the red tape and endless speculation, pitting the Zune against the ...

System Shootouts: Mac Pro vs Dell Precision 690

by David Chartier (Aug 13th, 2006)

System Shootouts has pit a Mac Pro against a Dell Precision 690 workstation in an in-depth feature-for-feature comparison to see who gets to go home with the prom queen. This match is of particular interest in part because of how detailed the feature criteria is (it included extra drive/bays like a ...

Could new Intel-based Xserves tip the IT scales for Apple?

by David Chartier (Aug 10th, 2006)

Apple, of course, boasted how fantastic of a deal they're offering on stage with these new Xserves, but it's always prudent to hear it from the actual community these products are targeted at. Fortunately, reader Jonathan Fingas pointed us towards just such an article from IT Jungle that analyzes ...

Widget Watch: Earthlink Shopping

by Dan Lurie (Jun 19th, 2006)

One of my favorite things about the web is how it enables anyone, with even the slightest bit of effort, to become an educated consumer. Whenever I make a significant purchase (new camera, phone, etc), my first stops are sites like PriceGrabber, which allow you to search for things using specific ...

MacBook vs. iBook

by Scott McNulty (May 18th, 2006)

Everyone has gone MacBook crazy (or is it just me?)! However, let us not forget the honorable iBook that the MacBook has replaced in Apple's product matrix. System Shootouts hasn't forgotten. They have, in fact, pitted the MacBook against the iBook in a point by point comparison. Who comes out on ...

Don't know what Mac laptop to get?

by Scott McNulty (May 16th, 2006)

There are a veritable plethora of Intel based Mac portables for you to choose from now, thanks to the just added MacBook. What's a consumer to do? Why, check out this comparison chart to see which model has what gizmo. This is very handy (and notice that the MacBooks ship with 2 256 RAM chips, so ...

The MacBook compromise

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 16th, 2006)

The big difference between a MacBook and a MacBook Pro? In my opinion, and the one thing PC users will be quick to point out: the absence of a dedicated video card. The video cards on the MacBook Pros are fantastic, and bring a lot to the table when doing graphically intensive tricks like 3d ...

MacBook Pro Value Proposition

by C.K. Sample, III (Jan 17th, 2006)

NotebookReview.com has an interesting article on the new MacBook Pro that at once takes a preview look at the Powerbook replacement (albeit a non-hands on preview) and compares it to other PC laptops running the same Intel chipset. It's interesting because it is the first time that Apple laptops ...

iPod nano comparison shots

by C.K. Sample, III (Sep 18th, 2005)

I just wanted to write up a quick post and let everyone know that I took some shots of our contest winner's iPod nano in its box and alongside the bag I'm sending with it. I also took pictures of my already scratched up iPod nano next to the box and on the box to show how the design on the packaging ...