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STILL with the combo drive!?! REALLY?!?

REALLY? Seriously?!? Why not add an $800 “floppy drive” model if the optical drive is so expensive?  Read More

WTF? Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” is the number 1 music video download on iTunes?!

OK, granted, I don’t understand why anyone would want to buy any of the current top 10 music video singles, but how can Michael Jackson‘s 1982 music video for “Thriller” be number 1? It appears in order to stave off bankruptcy (and because he hasn’t been able to write a hit in 17 years) Michael Jackson has put out some sort of 25th anniversary edition... Read More

Why doesn’t the MacBook Air have wireless USB?

Why didn’t the first company to ditch the floppy drive decide to ditch USB cables? Dell’s XPS M1530, Inspiron 1525, 17-inch Inspiron 1720 and 13-inch M1330 all have wireless USB options, so why doesn’t the MacBook Air? It certainly would have played into the Air’s naming and marketing schemes. Sure, the wireless Dells are ugly, but given the lack of expansion... Read More

Guy Kawasaki Stole My Favicon

Faithful Macenstein reader meggert pointed us to a site that he points out is notable for 2 reasons. Behold Guy Kawasaki’s new site http://mac.alltop.com/. Above: the alltell Mac favicon seems somewhat familiar… First, as meggert points out, their favicon seems awfully familiar. But more importantly, there is a glaring omission from their aggregator sites… namely,... Read More

WTF? – Apple Drops Out of NAB 2008

Apple, who has traditionally had one of the largest booths at the NAB Tradeshow, has announced it will not be purchasing a booth at the event this year. “Apple is participating in fewer trade shows this year,” said Anuj Nayar, senior manager of PR at Apple. “Often there are better ways to reach our customers. The increasing popularity of our retail stores and... Read More

WTF? MacBook Air SuperDrive can only be used with MacBook Air

While the value of the MacBook Air might be up for debate, the $99 price of the portable USB SuperDrive that can be purchased as an add-on is not. However, those of us thinking we might be able to pick up a nice travel-sized SuperDrive on the cheap will have to look elsewhere. For some reason, Apple has decided to hobble the MacBook Air SuperDrive. Despite being a USB device... Read More

Macworld Keynote Bingo Klingon Edition – nerd and geek worlds collide

Every once in a while, a “Perfect Storm” of both geeky and nerdy events comes together to form something so massively uncool it almost demands someone beat it up. This year, that thing is Macworld Keynote Bingo, Klingon edition. We’ve seen Macworld bingo before, but the The Swedish Bingo team has outdone themselves this year with their multi-lingual version.... Read More

Adobe misses its first Leopard compatibility deadline

“We expect to publish free Leopard compatibility updates for the video applications in December 2007” – Adobe Remember back right around the time when Leopard was due to be released, Adobe put out this PDF meant to scare educate potential Leopard buyers as to possible incompatibilities between Apple’s new OS and Adobe’s CS3 Suite of apps? In it, Adobe... Read More

WTF? – ThinkSecret – still in business until at least February 14th?

We here at Macenstein love a good mystery, and if there isn’t a good mystery available, we’ll settle for a mediocre mystery. To that end, we are focusing today on the biggest Mac mystery of the moment, that of ThinkSecret‘s Apple settlement. Faithful Macenstein reader Michael Johnston of iPhone Alley read our post on ThinkSecret‘s continued publication despite... Read More

“Oh buddons!”: The $100 iPod touch has arrived!

Does someone on your holiday list want an iPod touch, but they just don’t rate high enough to warrant spending $399 on them? Well, “Apple-photocopier” Optimus has your answer. Their new (originally named) Optimus Touch sports pretty much every feature of Apple’s iPod touch and then some, including direct rips of most of its icons and user interface, all rolled... Read More