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”Gizmodo's iPhone 3G Review Matrix
How do you read three lengthy reviews at the same time, really really fast? You jump to our review matrix of the iPhone 3G, first judged exclusively by the Three Amigos of Appledom: Ed Baig of USA Today, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal and David Pogue of the New York Times. More »Our MacBook Air Review Matrix
The so-called "four horsemen" of Apple product reviews have weighed in on the near weightless MacBook Air. You may have seen our post on it last night. You may have even caught one or two of the reviews. But only now can you sit back and enjoy the best quotes from all four reviews in a handy easy-to-read review matrix from your friends at Gizmodo. More »
First MacBook Air Reviews Trickle In
Three MacBook Air reviews are in from USA Today, Newsweek and the WSJ. The first two reviews are both fairly positive, with caveats, but the WSJ's reads slightly less so. Lets begin.
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Where Is David Pogue's MacBook Air Review?
Wednesday night around this time, we like to check in with our favorite columnists. Tonight we expected MacBook Air reviews from Walt Mossberg at WSJ, Ed Baig at USA Today, Steven Levy at Newsweek and of course, David Pogue at the venerable New York Times. Only, when I refreshed my browser at 9pm, Pogue's Jan. 24 State of the Art column turned out to cover Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and MacSpeech Dictate, rather than the far sexier (and more controversial) MacBook Air. UPDATE: Pogue scoops the other A-Team members by reviewing the Macbook Air on the Macworld show floor. His response in the comments. [First MacBook Air Reviews]Our Leopard Review Matrix
Don't have time to read over the full reviews from NYT's David Pogue, USA Today's Ed Baig and WSJ's Walt Mossberg? Read our handy review matrix instead, where we break out everything that wasn't merely feature description in an easy-to-compare chart. You can thank us later!
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Torvalds Family Uses Windows, Not Linus' Linux
A piece by Lee Gomes in the WSJ argues that Linux has a long way to go. Proof of this, he says, is the fact that even back in the open-source mother country, Finland, Linus Torvalds' father and sister use Windows, not Linux. (His mother, however, apparently does use Linux.) Regardless of what Torvalds' dad might think, Linus did get some Windows trash talk in there: More »Jobs Tells WSJ that AT&T EDGE Network Isn't Fast Enough
In an interview that mainly covered the virtues of the iPhone, Steve Jobs did admit to the Wall Street Journal that there was one vice: AT&T's EDGE data network. Called "pokey" by at least two of the four anointed iPhone reviewers earlier this week, the EDGE network is something that even Jobs wishes were "a little faster". Quoth Jobs:
You know every (AT&T) Blackberry gets its mail over EDGE. It turns out EDGE is great for mail, and it works well for maps and a whole bunch of other stuff. Where you wish you had faster speed is...on a Web browser. It's good enough, but you wish it was a little faster.
iPhone 'Surfing' On AT&T Network Isn't Fast, Jobs Concedes [WSJ]
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WSJ: iPods Break as Soon as the Warranty is Up
The Wall Street Journal took at look at the issue of iPods seeming to give up the ghost about 15 minutes after their warranties expire. Cracked screens, busted hard drives, and of course the infamous slowly dying battery are all issues brought up. The article states that only 5% of iPods need replacing, yet goes on to give all sorts of anecdotal evidence that iPods are the biggest lemon since the Yugo. So which is it, WSJ? More »
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WSJ Still Hung Up on Unboxings
So maybe it's not the unboxing video that we were hoping for, but the WSJ's Emily Steel and the Dow Jones' Paul Lin have teamed up to bring you a video that further examines the unboxing ritual. Props to Emily for dropping in a cameo of the Nintendo Sixty-Fouuur kid, though we prefer the Nintendo Wiiii kid. More »
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WSJ Drools Over Gadget Unboxings
The WSJ and reporter Emily Steel get it right, and in a timely fashion when it comes to their story on gadget unboxings, titled "At New Video Sites, Opening Up the Box is a Ritual to Savor". She says the ritual is here to stay. One interviewee, Mr. Nguyen, went so far as to say"It is an art," he says. "You have to unbox it quickly, and talk about it at the same time."We agree. So how long before the WSJ starts posting their own unboxing vids on YouTube? More »
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Mossberg Likes the Latest iPods, iTunes
The Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg and his colleague Katherine Boehret have been testing the latest iPods and iTunes for a few weeks, and in their review they note how Apple has risen to the challenge of the upcoming Microsoft Zune. Overall, they like what they see and hear:Our verdict: the new iPods are more versatile and less costly than ever, but the new iTunes software is an even bigger improvement, although it has one big downside — its coolest new feature is so graphically demanding that it doesn't work right on some older computers.
It's hard not to dig hardware that was already great and has always been superbly integrated with its software, and now you get a lot more storage space for the same price and a 60% brighter screen, too. But so what if the iTunes Cover Flow feature is graphics-intensive? That's why it looks so cool. Anyway, shed the DRM nonsense that winds its way through iPod/iTunes, and the iPod would actually deserve its runaway popularity. More »
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