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    Image of RainyDayInterns RainyDayInterns
    11/30/09

    In reply to BassJump Review
    It is just physics... only so much air can be moved by a box that size.

    Subwoofers are not large for no reason.
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    10:10 AM

    From RainyDayInterns: did we say this right???

    Does the "double negative" give the same meaning in this case as : "Subwoofers are large for a reason"???

    The more we read it, the more confused we got...
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    Edited by RainyDayInterns at 12/01/09 10:10 AM RainyDayInterns was starred RainyDayInterns was unstarred
    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    11/30/09

    In reply to BassJump Review
    I didn't know the MBP had a slot-loading record player for Beatles music. That's cool, I wish they would release digital music already, and let the interwebz have it.
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    Image of MacAttack7388 MacAttack7388
    11/30/09

    @valkilmerisawful: It's not too hard to convert records to digital music using audio in and out ports.
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    11/30/09

    @MacAttack7388: I was just poking fun, alluding to a recent Giz article.

    edit: No reason for this edit...
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    Edited by valkilmerisawful at 11/30/09 5:21 PM valkilmerisawful was starred valkilmerisawful was unstarred
    Image of mastaassmasta mastaassmasta
    11/25/09

    In reply to Every Mac Price-Compared Across Retailers
    I just realized Newegg doesn't carry apple computers. I love newegg.
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    Image of zjgz zjgz
    11/25/09

    @mastaassmasta: Hmmm, they used to
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/25/09

    @zjgz: Not any more. Nor do they carry iPods anymore.
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    Image of Metaphysician Metaphysician
    11/25/09

    In reply to Every Mac Price-Compared Across Retailers
    If you're lucky enough to live near a Microcenter, they've got a better deal than that on MacBooks. Only sad part is that it involves a rebate in the form of one of those pesky visa debit card things.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/25/09

    @Metaphysician: You can go to your bank and make a withdrawal on the card, getting the full $200 out of it instead of the rip off those cards tend to be.
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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    11/25/09

    In reply to Every Mac Price-Compared Across Retailers
    Oh Mark... You really, really hate the Mac Pro.

    I kinda want to just give you a hug and tell you it's going to be O.K.
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    Image of Mark Wilson Mark Wilson
    11/25/09

    @bornonbord: haha, my monitor wasn't large enough to screengrab, seriously!
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    Image of FamiCube64 FamiCube64
    11/25/09

    In reply to Every Mac Price-Compared Across Retailers
    Looks like the price doesn't fall far from the tree at Best Buy.
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    Mark Wilson promoted this comment FamiCube64 was starred FamiCube64 was unstarred
    Image of Odin Odin
    11/25/09

    In reply to Gifts for Apple Cultists Who've Grown Beyond Shame
    It's amazing how much coverage the Apple tablet gets on Giz considering how it's a product bordering on fictitious.
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    Image of Mark Wilson Mark Wilson
    11/25/09

    @Odin: Wanna put money on that?
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    Image of Steve Schmitz Steve Schmitz
    11/25/09

    @Mark Wilson: With a timeframe? You bet. If I had made a one year bet two years ago when the vaportablet was first rumored with every mac-tard on earth, I'd be a billionaire by now.
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    Image of Hearthatvoiceagain Hearthatvoiceagain
    11/25/09

    @Mark Wilson: I'll take some of that action. Read what he said, "Bordering on ficticious". This is a product that is not confirmed to exist by anyone who can be said to know for sure. A million rumours do not make a product real.
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    Image of Matt DiGiuseppe Matt DiGiuseppe
    11/25/09

    @Odin: The Apple table has been "1000% coming this january" since like 2001
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    Image of Hearthatvoiceagain Hearthatvoiceagain
    11/25/09

    @Steve Schmitz: if you want a good laugh, search for #appletablet here on Giz. 58 articles over 2 years ( I assume there are more not tagged as the first is a photoshop contest).
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    Odin promoted this comment Hearthatvoiceagain was starred Hearthatvoiceagain was unstarred
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    11/26/09

    @Mark Wilson:

    I'm sorry Mark but corporate whisperings and unofficial concept images make for a pretty insubstantial product. While it's incredibly likely that this is going to happen it's still a way off.

    I mean you only have to look through the Apple tablet articles on Gizmodo to see that it's nothing more than a swirling cloud of rumour and anticipation. The most we have from Apple about it is a very vague patent.

    I mean to quote another article on Giz:
    "We still don't know what the fabled Apple Tablet actually looks like, or if it even exists, really"

    It's probably not fictitious but it is damn well toeing that line. It's just silly how many articles are posted if someone even breathes the words "Apple Tablet". The hype is just getting ridiculous.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/25/09

    In reply to Gifts for Apple Cultists Who've Grown Beyond Shame
    Would't that MacBook Air stand reduce surface area compared to leaving it open?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/25/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: You mean like heat dissipation? That's not really much of an issue for the MBA and newer Macbooks really.
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    Image of SWC Oxcart SWC Oxcart
    11/25/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: i disagree...MBPs rely so much on passive heat dissipation and the air gaps below the chiclets.. Any increase in surface area is a plus and i guess that product is for those who otherwise would have it closed while docked. That's bad juju, imo.
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    Image of Michael Makin Michael Makin
    11/25/09

    In reply to Gifts for Apple Cultists Who've Grown Beyond Shame
    i have the BookArc stand for my MBA, its beautiful and looks ace on my desk at home, best £40 ive ever spent!!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/25/09

    In reply to Gifts for Apple Cultists Who've Grown Beyond Shame
    I bought my MBP in the summer, and I don't regret it at all. It's a fantastic machine with superb battery life. If you don't currently have a proper computer to hold you over for the next few months, just get it now. You won't regret it. Don't fall for the same nonsense the bleeding edge people do.
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    Image of Archie-Tekt Archie-Tekt
    11/25/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: If your iffy about the price of the machines you can get great deals in the refurbished lines. Just go to the store link and you will find the refurbs in the lower left. My first laptop was a Powerbook g4 that I bought in 2004 and I got almost 6 years out of it (just got a new MBP about a month ago)
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/25/09

    @Archie-Tekt: I agree. The refurbs are great for deals, especially when new models are released and older stuff starts filling it in.
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    Image of driggity driggity
    11/25/09

    In reply to Gifts for Apple Cultists Who've Grown Beyond Shame
    Really, you mention Buffy but not Hellboy (or the other cool Dark Horse properties)? Boo.
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    Mark Wilson promoted this comment driggity was starred driggity was unstarred
    Image of Mark Wilson Mark Wilson
    11/25/09

    @driggity: banned.
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    Image of stryder100 stryder100
    11/25/09

    In reply to Gifts for Apple Cultists Who've Grown Beyond Shame
    I'm curious about the iPod dock phenomenon, at least as far as sound is concerned. Couldn't you get the same quality sound by getting a male-to-male 3.5mm cable and piping it out to a device? Of course, that wouldn't lock you into the iPod/iPhone line. Can't have that.
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    Image of driggity driggity
    11/25/09

    @stryder100: Most DAPs have higher quality audio output from a lineout in their connector than from the headphone jack.
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment driggity was starred driggity was unstarred
    Image of SamburgerHandwich SamburgerHandwich
    11/25/09

    @stryder100: remote control, onscreen ui, charging, better quality, ability to increase device volume rather than amping it (better sound). plus, it's just easier to plunk your ipod in than to worry about cables. since lock-in is a valid concern, most devices also have aux-out.
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    Image of spiegel1 spiegel1
    11/25/09

    In reply to Gifts for Apple Cultists Who've Grown Beyond Shame
    You can never go wrong with porn.
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    11/25/09


    @spiegel1: Well. really depends, now, doesn't it....
    [gizmodo.com]
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    11/25/09

    @met2art: I got a boner out of it.

    I thank you, good sir.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/25/09

    In reply to Gifts for Apple Cultists Who've Grown Beyond Shame
    I'm getting everyone IOUs for rumored unreleased gadgets from now on.

    Duke Nukem Forever for everyone!!!
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    11/25/09

    @tande04: Too bad we all know its never coming out now ;)
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/25/09

    @tande04: I'll find you if it ends up not existing. I'm putting this down on my bucket list.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of franco1975 franco1975
    11/25/09

    In reply to Gifts for Apple Cultists Who've Grown Beyond Shame
    Why do mactards always act snooty around windows users??? Is it because macs are generally more expensive than windows?
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    Image of Radio Silence Radio Silence
    11/25/09

    @franco1975: Mactards act snooty because it is a self defense mechanism - Pretend you just spent upwards of $2000 on a computer that is only as fast as a $500 PC - so then you power up this over-priced bad-boy only to find that you can't use any decent software - no games, (unless you inclued 4 year old releases of games like Age of empires 3) then you find out that all this cool open-source and beta stuff that is coming out will not or has yet to release a mac version - THEN you start digging through crap programs like "Safari" and you really get worried - but you've already spent your duckets on this overpriced intel powered crap - so the only thing left to do is look down your nose at those PC users who can do whatever they want - for way less money.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/25/09

    @Radio Silence: I'd like to meet this $500 mythical PC.

    As a console gamer I scoff at thee
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    Image of CraigJ CraigJ
    11/25/09

    @Radio Silence: so much bad, angry information in a single post. There's a drug for that.
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    met2art promoted this comment CraigJ was starred CraigJ was unstarred
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    11/25/09


    @Radio Silence: I'm sensing a lot of angst here. Did a gang of Mac users kill your parents, or something?
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    11/25/09

    @CraigJ: If by "drug" you mean "sledge hammer" then yes, that would be perfect.
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    Image of Radio Silence Radio Silence
    11/25/09

    @met2art: Twas the Night before christmas, and all through the houes, quiet pc's on windows 98 were gaming and chatting and playing at dice? This is going nowhere... Try dealing with an office full of Macs running Quark and Photoshop - and then spend a week digging through font conflicts every time OSX updates... Good Times.
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    11/25/09

    Truth be told I spent $140 more for a MB which is lighter (mostly due to an inferior battery), smaller, has a better LCD, better graphics card, and multi-touch when compared to my work laptop which is a Vostro.

    The Vostro does bring a bunch of pluses over the MB though like a bigger battery, firewire, sd slot, pc express slot, vga out, svideo, hardware switches for thing like wifi, and it's cheaper.

    Referb MBs in the past have been a pretty good deal and I don't deny that I did pay a premium, but truth be told there are some pluses (although the sharp edges are annoying).

    When you go up in the product line to the higher end laptops, iMacs, and Mac Pro's, that is when the price to performance gap starts to get ridiculous.

    There is no way I could justify getting a desktop made with laptop parts for $2200 when for half of that I could eclipse it with an OC'd Bloomfield with better hardware. Sure you have to add a better LCD, but there are "pretty good" ones out there for a few hundred that are good enough for what, 95% of the population?

    On a related note, I thought your post was a riot... haha
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/25/09


    @Radio Silence: I have no clue where you were going with that, or how you ended up where you did. As a PC user I'm really not sure what to say or where to go with this.

    "I'm crazy as a shit house rat, and I'm a PC."

    #tips
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    11/25/09

    @met2art: I was gonna say "there's an app for that" but I stopped myself in time.
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