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My name is Cédric Bozzi, I make apps and websites, and this is my tech blog — you’ll find news commentary here, from a very opinionated Mac-head.

Il y a une version française ici, but most of this blog’s contents are extracted from my Twitter feed, and hence only available in one language (which varies randomly).

15 jun. 2006

First contact with the MacBook (very quickly, I was expected at the laundromat): as reported, the screen is much less glossy than equivalent PCs, and probably not so terrible in daily use (assuming this isn’t just a gradual transition to mirrory screens) and the keyboard seems very, very pleasant — if they released a desktop version I’d be buying it immediately.

 

BlackBook, WhiteBook, MacBook, StainBook? Didn’t write about that earlier because, really: Apple rushing products to market without sufficient Q&A testing, what else is new? (Even when it’s a new variant — wow, creepy.)

Perhaps Apple will need to alter its Get a Mac campaign to show the Mac actor (Justin Long) gradually developing enormous disfiguring bruises. Truth in advertising, people.

Incidentally, I don’t like today’s new ads more than I liked the previous ones, and maybe even less. Reducing the Mac to iMovie and Windows to Excel, uh… (Of course, the Boot Camp ad, on the other hand, is cool. Even though Boot Camp is still in unsupported beta stage, so it’s still a bit misleading.)

 

Black and white differences: “Retesting […] still shows the white 2GHz model performing better than the black model.” Somehow I didn’t see anyone pointing out that, as they write in the first paragraph, they received the white MacBook some time later than their other test units, and I don’t find it hard at all to imagine the very first production units’ performance to be slightly inferior. You know, what with Apple screwing their early adopters and all.

 

i360 iMac Turntable. Just awesome.

 

Serect. Hee.

 

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