The New Apple MacBook is not clicking: It has issues!
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Posted by on November 2nd, 2008As heretic as that may sound, lately I have been evangelizing the use of laptops, and have converted a few of my friends but not for gaming.
The hottest $h1t in the laptop market are Apple’s New Macbooks that have just come out a few weeks ago. But they are not without with their share of problems and issues.
As CrunchGear reports, Apple Macbooks are experiencing touch pad click failure 60% of the time! That is almost 50% of the clicks you make. It’s frustating enough because the touchpad does not have buttons and as a design tradition at Apple, the right click we have in PCs, they use the Command (?) button + mouse-click.
An official thread open at Apple’s Discussion forums discusses this very problem, and people are speculating what the problem might be.
Anyone else experiencing this same problem, if they got the New Macbook?
I Spy With My Little iSight!
Posted by on May 11th, 2008
A few days ago I did a story on how personal privacy and safety were being debated in the computer industry and just today I read an interesting piece on how the iSight for the MacBook actually helped someone recover their stolen laptop.
Before I go any further, I think the iSight coupled with the Back To My Mac remote computing software for MacBooks can be a perfect spy tool.
Anyways, so to cut a long story short, a woman who had her MacBook stolen logged into her Back To My Mac application and activated her iSight camera. She got what she wanted! The thief in the camera. The thieves were caught and the woman who wishes to remain nameless got her laptop back.
And in other news, the first Gear of War 2 footage is here.
What does Apple have for the gamers?
Posted by on May 9th, 2008
Currently, nothing. But in the near future, it might! That is that big question today. What does Apple have for the gamers?
It’s very true that Apple has seen a lot of success in the personal gadget arena, and have always been a good contender in the personal computing market. They also have had a lot of success with the Apple TV products and their notebooks are selling like hotcakes.
Apple has a strong presence in the hardware arena and they provide powerful personal computers. An interesting article I read on another blog notes that it might just be the time for Apple to hit the gaming market with a new product and take it by storm. They might very well be successful again.
While a major chunk of the gaming market apple has been eaten by the console vendors and personal computer vendors, I won’t be surprised if Apple woos in people with their aesthetic sense of powerful hardware design.
Apple’s iPhone SDK now available
Posted by on March 7th, 2008
Apple recently announced the release of it’s Software Development Kit for the iPhone which will potentially open the flood gates of third party software on the gadget. The iPhone would then have a lot more functions making using of all or most of it’s features.
Not only simple organization and communication software would be developed, games are also planned for the iPhone and the first one to announce their iPhone version were the producers behind the under work title, ‘Spore,’ and Touch Fighter. Electronic Arts has announced that a number of titles are in the pipeline and work on some have already been started.
The iPhone sold like hot cakes when it first came out, yet there was a little disappointment that it didn’t really live up to the hype. But still people bought more. And today with this SDK out they can expect a lot more softwares for them to use.
[Via Engadget]
