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Pystar releasing cheap Hackintosh: Why this is really, really awesome

Published April 14th, 2008 in Apple and Computers. 6 Comments

Pystar (offline right now, presumably by either digg or Apple’s hand back up now) has announced availability of a new ‘OpenMac’ system, going for $399. While this is probably illegal in about five ways, it seems awesome (and logical) from my point of view. For one, it finally makes an “Apple” computer cost […]

Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!: Oh crap.

Published February 2nd, 2008 in Communication, Computers, Search Engines and The Interwebs. 5 Comments

Microsoft has apparently offered to buy Yahoo! for the paltry sum of $44.6 billion. This bothers me. First of all, Microsoft has had almost a monopoly in the OS market for the last couple of decades, and we all know how they handled that. If they get a majority share of the […]

MacBook Air announced, I buy MacBook Pro to spite Apple, eat my words

Published February 1st, 2008 in Apple, Computers, Design and Gadgets. 10 Comments

The internets have been abuzz with news of Apple’s new ultra-thin, ultra-mobile laptop, the MacBook Air. I have been holding out to get a new computer until after MacWorld, where I was expecting Apple to refresh their aging MacBook Pro line. However, since Apple didn’t make any updates to it, I went ahead […]

Eee PC: Almost there. (No dice)

Published December 1st, 2007 in Apple, Computers, Gadgets and Software. 0 Comments

The Eee PC is certainly a wonderful little device, with a software selection to please even the pickiest of geeks. For my science project (to determine if it is yet feasible to replace text books with electronic devices for use in class), I saw it necessary to test one out, so, the day it was […]

Apple should set OS X loose

Published August 5th, 2007 in Apple, Computers, Design and Software. 3 Comments

As we are all well aware, you can only use Apple’s beautiful operating system, OS X, on non-Apple hardware with a frightening amount of effort. If Apple were to free the big cat from their hardware, they would rock the computer industry, not only racking in an unprecedented profit, but gaining a huge increase […]