If you’re still on the fence on the new MacBook Pros, Gizmodo has a handy summary of seven Santa Rosa MacBook Pro reviews.

ITPro has some interesting speculation on hints from Google’s CEO about more Google tools on the iPhone. Is the iPhone turning out to be the Google Phone…?

Ever wanted to see what a […]

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Crunch Gear has a review of the HTC Touch, a member of the iPhone-killer cadre. The phone gets high marks for being easy and fun to use, quality screen, and fast WiFi, but the reviewer doesn’t believe it’s really appropriate to think of it as being a threat to the iPhone, with a release […]

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After receiving several emails from readers wondering whether more RAM or matched pairs is better for performance, we’re happy to say that Other World Computing has handled the benchmarking for us. Bottom line: you’re better off with 3GB of RAM than 2GB for the majority of cases, even though they’re unmatched pairs. […]

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Roughly Drafted Magazine (which has some quality stuff), has a persuasive defense of Apple’s decision to shift its resources to the iPhone at the expense of Leopard. If you’re not interested in the iPhone and are wondering if the delay of Leopard is worth it, there are some good arguments here.

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Blog Daring Fireball has a really nice analysis of the iPhone’s price, in particular responding to recent comments made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The author makes an interesting assertion that the iPhone’s price is actually too low, if anything.

While there were earlier reports that Apple wanted all the iPhone parts ready […]

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A blog on ZDNet has a fascinating look at what goes into battery life in laptops and the potential of solid state disks. Very interesting stuff for those of us who are interested in what goes into determining battery life, where gains can be made, and the limitations.

If you’re wanting to replace the hard […]

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In a veritable MacNN extravaganza, they have thorough summaries of a couple iPhone-related patents, a review of the iSkin ProTouch keyboard covers, and a review of the Cardette multi-card reader and hub. Truly the website that never sleeps.

Barry’s Farm (a website we, admittedly, are not familiar with), has a funny Dilbert-themed sleeve, with several sizes […]

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If you’ve been as frustrated as us with the state of browsers on Mac OS X, Macintalk has a nice roundup and benchmarking of browsers for Mac OS X.

Next, there’s some cool news about a new effortto use ExpressCard/34 with solid state memory. SanDisk and Sony are working together on the new […]

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If you’re looking for a laptop stand, CNet has reviewed Griffin Technology’s Elevator notebook stand, which gets high marks for its appearance and simple assembly. The predecessor to the Elevator, the iCurve, was reviewed by us, too.

In the realm of extreme (with a capital X) protection, CrunchGear has a review of the RhinoSkin for […]

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MacNN has a review of Canvas Sport Portable Case, a MacBook case from site-sponsor Speck. The case is a retro canvas number that would go great with a pair of Converse All-Stars, and gets high marks for its style and protection.

Macworld’s portable blog has an interesting roundup of alternatives to Apple’s own remote control […]

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Reg Hardware has a review of an interesting ExpressCard/34 accessory from Griffin. The 5:1 card reader supports Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, SD, MMC and xD cards. The card seems to do what it’s supposed to, so no complaints from the reviewer.

In other review news, Gizmodo has a review of FastMac’s replacement AC […]

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