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- Apple Quietly Tweaks MacBook Pro Line-up, Leaves Prices Unchanged
- Gadgets Week in Review: High Five
- GoPro Releases The HD Hero2 Action Camera, All-New Imaging In The Same Rugged Housing
- 10 Years Of The iPod
| Apple Quietly Tweaks MacBook Pro Line-up, Leaves Prices Unchanged Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:54 AM PDT  Apple has updated its MacBook Pro offering on the Apple Store, reports This Is My Next, after 9to5Mac earlier leaked details of the notebook product line-up refresh. Don’t expect to see spectacular changes, as the tweaks are relatively minor. They include faster processors, more storage and a number of small graphics updates. Confirming earlier leaks of the new line-up, the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro now comes with a 2.4 GHz dual-core processor (before: 2.3 GHz) and a 500 GB hard drive (before: 320 GB). The basic 15-inch MacBook Pro now sports a 2.2 GHz quad-core processor (before: 2.0 GHz), while the 17-inch MacBook Pro has been upgraded with a 2.4 GHz quad-core processor (before: 2.2 GHz). Both the 15-inch and the 17-inch machines have been given some graphics upgrades as well (the change: from AMD Radeon HD 6750M to HD 6770M – learn more here). The prices of the slightly upgraded models have not been changed. Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007. Among the key offerings from Apple’s product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod (offered with...
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| Gadgets Week in Review: High Five Posted: 24 Oct 2011 01:00 AM PDT  Here are some of the past week’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: CMU Researchers Turn Any Surface Into A Touchscreen Lytro Makes Its Debut: Unique Form Factor, $400 Price Tag Microsoft's Augmented Reality 3D HoloDesk Lets You Play With Balls In Real Time The Scourge Of Pentile Returns With The Galaxy Nexus
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| GoPro Releases The HD Hero2 Action Camera, All-New Imaging In The Same Rugged Housing Posted: 23 Oct 2011 08:57 PM PDT  GoPro is ready to take action cameras to a whole new level. Again. The Half Moon Bay-based company just released the HD Hero2 Professional, a major refresh over the original (and much loved) HD Hero. Chief among the updates is a new video sensor that has twice the performance as the original including better low light capture. This new sensor is paired with a different lens that not only improves the overall clarity, but also features a 170 degree field of view rather than the 127 found in the older HD Hero. Yep, your extreme tomfoolery will look that much more awesome. The HD Hero2 looks very similar to the original. It’s the same square form factor, which allows it to fit into the existing housings. However, GoPro improved the user experience markedly. A bonifide user interface now occupies the tiny LCD rather than a cryptic single character menu system (the original is horrible). Plus, the camera now has LED status lights on four sides rather than just the front. The big improvement involves the internal systems. The new sensor and processor allows for incredible burst modes: 10 photos per second or one every .5 seconds. The faster sensor allows for 960p at 48 frames per second, 720p at 60 fps or WVGA at 120 fps. Plus, the sensor is capable of still photos at 11 megapixels, a huge upgrade from the 5MP sensor in the HD Hero. The new model also has an mini-HDMI port, and 3.5mm external stereo mic input along with a 3.5mm composite video port. Like the HD Hero, the HD Hero2 is also compatible with the BacPac add-ons including the upcoming WiFi BacPac that will add remote management through a small wireless remote and a smartphone. GoPro dispatched the $299 HD Hero2 to Best Buy last week should the should be hitting your local store within the week. The model is also available on GoPro.com.
GoPro is the world’s leading activity image capture company. GoPro produces the HD HERO® line of wearable and gear-mountable cameras and accessories, making it easy for people to capture and share their lives’ most exciting moments in high definition. GoPro’s products are sold through specialty retailers in more than 50 countries and online at http://www.gopro.com.
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| Posted: 23 Oct 2011 11:28 AM PDT  On October 23rd, 2001, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod at a special event, showing off a design destined to become iconic. Ten years later, the brand is as strong as ever, though sadly, we have lost its inventor. Take a few minutes to watch the original product announcement and take a short trip through the evolution of the device that is arguably the most important in Apple’s history. I say the most important because while the Mac Classic, iMac, and later, the iPhone, are equally as prestigious to some, I think that the iPod was a watershed moment. If the iPod failed, Apple would have remained a boutique computer maker prized by designers and schools but able to be safely ignored by the tech world at large. Instead, the iPod proved to be a powerful wedge, the de facto standard for listening to music for many years; indeed, it still has years to go until it finally gives way to more integrative devices like smartphones. And even then, the brand will endure. This wedge of Apple’s gave them mass-market credibility, boosted sales enormously, and established iTunes as a market force that would disrupt an entire industry. The iPod itself has changed over the years. But anyone could look at today’s 160GB iPod Classic and recognize the original as its predecessor. Some say that the current model (available in more or less its current form since late 2008) is due for replacement. It has already been replaced, though, by a number of devices. Apple seems to offer the Classic as a sort of public service, declining to have those sales transfer over to the newer devices, perhaps out of respect for its legacy. There were missteps: the line of touch buttons from the third-generation iPod didn’t last long, and the puny color screen of the first color models wasn’t particularly compelling. The “fat nano” was, let’s be honest, an object of ridicule. The whole battery debacle was poorly handled. But these problems were corrected and every time, consumers thought “Ah – now it’s complete.” And then, of course, along came the iPhone. Ten years is a hell of a long time for a consumer electronics brand to endure, much less a form factor or look and feel. I’m betting nearly everyone reading this has owned an iPod of one kind or another, and probably has an iPod memory stashed away somewhere. Personally, I remember receiving a 5th-gen iPod at Christmas of 2005, and whining until we could go to the store the next day and exchange my white one for a black one. Not a proud moment for me, but perhaps it is one for Apple. So here’s a salute to one of the most important pieces of consumer electronics of all time. Feel free to share your thoughts and memories below.
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