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Found Footage: Thinkpad MacBook Air parody

Posted Apr 29th 2008 6:00PM by Scott McNulty
Filed under: Odds and ends, MacBook Air


There are two hot ultraportable computers on the scene now-a-days: the MacBook Air and the ThinkPad X300. Some clever Lenovo lover created this MacBook Air ad parody which points out the key differences between the Air and the X300: number of ports and an internal DVD drive (only available on some models).

Judging by pure aesthetics alone the Air wins, but ThinkPads are time tested workhorses so I wouldn't count out the X300. Either way, this parody is one of the better ones I've seen.

[via Fake Steve]
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Thinkpad MagSafe Hack

Posted Oct 26th 2006 12:00PM by Dan Lurie
Filed under: Hardware, Portables, Hacks, How-tos, Cult of Mac, Mods

I've long been of the opinion that Thinkpads are the PowerBooks of the PC world, and if not for the fact that they don't run OS X, I'd be very tempted to consider one when it came time to buy my next computer. Make points us to an enterprising Thinkpad owner who was having some trouble with a flaky DC-in port on his notebook, and decided to take matters into his own hands when it came to fixing the problem.

Instead of simply replacing the connector (which is a total pain to do, I know this from personal experience) he decided to one-up every other PC notebook owner out there by constructing his very own magnetic power connector. While this may not, in the strictest sense of the term, be "Mac news," it shows once again that the innovations Apple introduces into its products are not only handy to those of us who actually use Macs, but stimulate the greater computer market to further innovate and build on the ideas of Apple's design team. Check out the instructable to learn how to make a ThinkSafe adapter of your own.
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Powerbook vs. Thinkpad

Posted Jan 31st 2006 8:30AM by Scott McNulty
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Portables, PowerBook

David Parmet has written an amusing piece for Apple Matters lamenting his wife's recent ThinkPad purchase. Now, we Mac folks have got it good with Powerbooks and MacBooks, but I must say that I find it unfortunate that David had to pick on a ThinkPad.

Are they sexy? Well, not really but they are solid machines, and the best Windows laptops you can buy (for business use, which is what I use mine for). If you have to get a Windows laptop, get a ThinkPad even though it will show finger prints. But let us not forget that it wasn't so long ago that Powerbooks were black.

Now, I know we are all dyed in the wool Mac users, but if you had to get a PC laptop, what would you get?
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Thinkpad running OS X 10.4.3

Posted Jan 16th 2006 3:30PM by Scott McNulty
Filed under: Software, Video



Engadget has some video of OS X 10.4.3 running on a Thinkpad (which is the only kind of PC laptop I like) and it is running 'like butter.'

Take a look (85.9MB file) at the video and see for yourself.
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