Archived Links for February 2008

02.17	TUAW	The Street: "Mac Owners Are Snobs", Cory Bohon: According to a recent The Street video, they say that Mac users are "snobs."
02.15	MacNN	Apple to push iPhone, iPod as gaming platform, Staff: Apple may be making a large push into the game industry, after several patents revolving around gaming were filed recently.
02.15	Electronista	Best Buy runs dry of 15-inch MacBook Pro, Staff: Retailer Best Buy is no longer stocking any 15-inch MacBook Pro online, according to reader reports.
02.15	AppleInsider	MacBook Pros running dry in the channel ahead of refreshes, Katie Marsal: Inventory of MacBook Pros has become severely constrained over the past three weeks, with some reseller now reflecting backorder status on the soon-to-be refreshed Apple professional notebooks.
02.14	Low End Mac	Falling in Love with Mac OS X, German Rotondo: I can’t explain how surprised I was after 30 minutes using Mac OS X (I had never used a Mac before). So surprising to find that with a 7-year-old Mac you could do pretty much everything, like browsing the Web, email, and such with a very acceptable speed.
02.14	Mac Night Owl	The Great Time Machine Conspiracy, Gene Steinberg: Apple has always had a love and hate relationship with its customers. In the old days, when you called support, you sometimes got a downright hostile attitude, and getting a solution to your problem wasn’t very easy, and sometimes doomed to failure.
02.13	ars technica	NBC report on music industry takes shots at Apple, Justin Berka: The relationship between Apple and NBC is still on the rocks following NBC’s departure from the iTunes Store.
02.12	Low End Mac	Recycle Old Computers by Repurposing Them, Not Retiring Them, John Hatchett: If you are an avid reader of Low End Mac, I can’t help but think that you are predisposed to hang on to your old computer until the last possible moment and even then pass it on to a family member or friend in need.
02.12	Apple Matters	Apple Needs a Game Division, James R. Stoup: Contrary to the rumors, I don’t think Apple is likely to create a "gaming system" anytime soon. However, that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t actively be creating games for their current devices.
02.11	Mac Night Owl	Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google: Apple Needs to Stay Above the Battle!, Gene Steinberg: The beginning of what may be a long skirmish between Microsoft and Yahoo! is now underway.
02.07	Mac Night Owl	Is Microsoft Paying Lip Service to the Mac?, Gene Steinberg: One of the landmark agreements that Steve Jobs got from Bill Gates in the last decade was the pledge that Microsoft would continue to develop Office for the Mac over an additional five years. That agreement has since been extended, and Office 2008 is their latest Mac product.
02.04	MacNN	Apple pulls helpful docs for MB Air owners, Staff: A host of informative documentation regarding the MacBook Air has been pulled from Apple’s support site, including those that relate to wireless performance tips for the ultra- portable.
02.04	MacNN	MacBook Air: Initial impressions, Staff: Having had the pleasure of using the new MacBook Air (MBA) for the past two days, I can say that Apple has accomplished an amazing feat of engineering and delivered a truly impressive subnotebook computer, although not completely without compromise.
02.04	Electronista	Zune 8 receives quiet price cut, bests nano, Staff: Microsoft has quietly dropped the price of its Zune 8 flash music player to $180 in a bid to gain marketshare, according to reports as well as checks with several major online retailers.
02.04	Low End Mac	Aquiring Yahoo: Microsoft Is Playing the Same Old Game, Dan Knight: Unable to compete with Google using its own resources, Microsoft has made a bid to purchase Yahoo, the second-place Internet search engine.
02.04	MacMegasite	Microsoft likely to go into debt for Yahoo deal, Mike: Microsoft may have to go into debt for the first time ever to purchase Yahoo.
02.04	Mac Night Owl	Apple and the Great Product Demand Game, Gene Steinberg: All right, is the iPhone still extremely popular, or is demand declining? What about the iPod and the Mac, or even the Apple TV, which is due for a software revision shortly?
02.02	AppleInsider	What’s wrong with the MacBook Air?, Prince McLean: McLean attempts to defend the indefensible.
02.01	Low End Mac	Boosting an Old Power Mac with NewerTech’s 1.8 GHz G4 Upgrade, Dan Knight: The "Mystic" Power Mac G4 was the first dual-processor G4 and shipped in 450 MHz and 500 MHz versions. Each CPU has a 1 MB backside cache running at 1/2 of CPU speed, and that sits on a 100 MHz system bus. We’re comparing that to the NewerTech MAXPower upgrade with a single Freescale 7448 1.8 GHz G4 CPU.
02.01	Low End Mac	Remotely Control Your OS 9 or OS X Mac, Adam Rosen: Methods of Macintosh remote control.
02.01	Apple Matters	Goodbye to .Mac, Chris Howard : After some four years or so shelling out to Apple for a .Mac account, I’m finally making the commitment to ditch it. It has never been an overly good value, but changing primary email addresses is always a pain in the butt and takes a bit of effort...and will probably cause a few lost contacts.
02.01	Apple Matters	Is the iPhone Slowly Killing Apple or Giving it a New Life?, Sebastien Gomez: With the new jailbreak for the iPhone, users haven’t waited that long to be able to break the latest update from Apple. This news comes along with last week’s claim that Apple had sold a little over 3.7 million iPhones while AT&T was showing numbers in the 2 million unit range. We all know what is causing this discrepancy, but is it hurting Apple as bad as it is hurting AT&T?
02.01	Mac Night Owl	Why I Won’t Buy the MacBook Air, Gene Steinberg: Steinberg doesn’t find the MacBook Air an appealing notebook for his purposes.
02.01	eWeek	Has Microsoft Disavowed Vista?, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Technically, Vista is pure misery. It eats system resources like an elephant does peanuts, Windows applications break and its so-called improved security is a joke. I know it. You know it. Even Microsoft’s most devoted yes-men know it--although they won’t admit it-- and perhaps Microsoft knows it as well.
02.01	AppleInsider	Report: Apple ups Mac orders by 20 percent, scales back on iPods, Katie Marsal: Following a series of checks with sources in the Far East, researchers for Banc of America have put out a call indicating that Apple has commissioned a significant increase in production of Macs for the current quarter while simultaneously reducing iPod production.