Let’s go back and reiterate that Apple is a multi-billion dollar company, and a company can only become that big by having a reputation for high quality products, which means that since Apple sold 1.7 million units in the first week and local Apple Stores can’t keep them in stock, the pros of the phone are out weighing the cons. Let’s be honest; the iPhone 4 is a fantastic upgrade to a phenomenal 3G S. It’s a simple equation:

pros > cons = happy people’s wallets > angry people’s criticsim

So Why make announcements, recall the phones, and give away  free bumper cases for? They shouldn’t and they won’t. If they do that, then they are blemishing their reputation that we established in earlier. They want the attention; they want the bad press; therefore, people like yourself will research all about the iPhone 4 and learn all the pros and just say ‘I would get it, but it has one problem’, and then Apple will come out of no where and fixes the problem and sell a million more iPhone 4s. So instead of filing lawsuits let’s understand that you bought a high quality product that is top in the market.

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There has been several videos, blogs, and  concerned emails sent to Steve Jobs and Apple Inc., but is the consumer’s voice really heard? A few days after the iPhone4 was officially released, a concerned customer was asking Steve Jobs if there was any future plans for Apple to fix these reception problems. Jobs replied back with, “Just avoid holding it that way”. What way? How are you supposed to hold the phone? One dead giveaway that the iPhone 4 had reception problems during testing was the available “Bumper Case” that Apple was selling at the launch of the phone.

I truly believe that Apple knew about these previous issue and wanted to provide a quality case to avoid these issues from customers. The case is stylish, but is not the true reason behind it. There has been leaked Apple care documents explaining to the staff how to “deal” with customers when asking/confronting you about the iPhone4 reception problems. You can see this below:

As well as reception problems accruing at opening day, their were several ticked-off customers when Apple did not release the iPhone 4 in white, Black ONLY. Apple states that the new iPhone 4, in white, will be re-released in mid-July. No exact date. After researching several blogs, websites, videos, and emails, Apple has released a statement that the iPhone4 reception problems are not the antenna, but the software. Supposedly, Apple has slipped up on the reception “bars” ever since the 1st gen iPhone. Apple says they are in the process of fixing the bug and will re-realeas the latest iPhone software with the new, and improved, software to increase call quality and overall better reception. We will see…

I hope you have enjoyed this blog over the reception issues/White iPhone4. Feel free to comment below with your take on what Apple is doing or needs to do…Hopefully they will listen to thier customers…

MacintoshTipz

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Below are the YouTubers links along with the day of their certain giveaway. Visit their video to find out to be entered into their giveaway.

Good luck to all of the contestants and thanks to all who contributed in this great event! Happy Holidays

Day 1 (Dec 14th):

YouTube: MacOSXTutorials12

Giveaway: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3 or Xbox 360). Click to see who won

YouTube: MacBoyProductions

Giveaway: RichardSolo 1200 w/ Flashlight & iPhone and iPod Accessories.

Click to See who Won!

Day 2 (Dec 15th):

YouTube: MacManLtd

Giveaway: Apple Magic Mouse & MacManLtd. T-Shirts.

Click to See Who Won!

Day 3 (Dec 16th):

YouTube: LastStopReviews

Giveaway: 8 GB iPod nano. Click to see who Won!

YouTube: AppleGenius0921

Giveaway: iPhone Accessories & $10 iTunes Giftcard.

Click to See who Won!

Day 4 (Dec 17th):

YouTube: TechReviewer7

Giveaway: iPhone/iPod accessories. Click to See who Won!

YouTube: Pashyn

Giveaway: iPhone/iPod touch accessories. Click to See who Won!

Day 5 (Dec 18th):

YouTube: MattsMacintosh

Giveaway: $50 iTunes Giftcard. Click to see who Won!

YouTube: ThatOneGuy158

Giveaway: Parallels Desktop for Mac. Click to see who Won!

Day 6 (Dec 19th):

YouTube: iTouchiPodz

Giveaway: iPhone/iPod Touch cases. Click to See who Won!

YouTube: TheMacintosh1

Giveaway: $15 iTunes Giftcard. Click to see who Won!

Day 7 (Dec 20th):

YouTube: iMacarly

Giveaway:  1 yr. Subscription to MacWorld Magazine. Click to see who Won!

YouTube: CockyJeremy

Giveaway: $15 iTunes Giftcard & Mac App Bundle. Click to see who Won!

Day 8 (Dec 21st):

YouTube: DiMcoProductions

Giveaway: 4GB iPod Shuffle. Click to see who Won!

YouTube: theapplefreakk

Giveaway: 5 RichardSolo DX007 Batteries. Click to see who Won!

Day 9 (Dec 22nd):

YouTube: GoMacForest

Giveaway: Mac/iPhone accessories. Click to See who Won!

YouTube: MarquesBrownlee

Giveaway: RichardSolo 1200 iPhone+iPod Backup Battery + Custom RichardSolo iPhone Case.

Click to see who Won!

Day 10 (Dec 23rd):

YouTube: iTalkApple

Giveaway: $15 iTunes Giftcard & Application, Cram, License. Click to see who Won!

YouTube: TheSavage042

Giveaway: 2GB iPod Shuffle. Click to see who Won!

Day 11 (Dec 24th):

YouTube: MacintoshTipz

Giveaway: PowerMat Home & Office Mat/ PowerMat iPod Touch case, iPhone case & more:

Click to see who Won!

YouTube: SihWinston

Giveaway: $15 iTunes Gift Card. Click to see who Won!

Day 12 (Dec 25th):

Website: MyAppleSpace.com

Giveaway: Brand NEW Apple iPod Touch: Click to see who Won!

Thanks to all of the sponsors of these great giveaways:

MyAppleSpace, Maccessorized, Powermat, Marware, ElagoDesign, Wrapsol, Richardsolo, iFrogz, AccessoryGeeks.

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I’m sure many of you have heard about the flash problems in the new iMac’s.  The first day I received my iMac, I did not experience any lag with flash.  The next day, however, was a different story.  I woke up my iMac from sleep, went to play a youtube video, and the video was stuttering as well as the sound.  I went to Apple’s support forums and found a possible fix.  I uninstalled the flash player plug-in, and then downloaded and re-installed the plug-in.  I am happy to report that I have not had the problem since, but I might be jinxing myself right now, as I have only had the iMac for a week.  Unfortunately, this fix does not seem to work for everybody.  Members of the forums are still reporting flash lag, after re-installing the plug-in.  Hopefully Apple will address this issue soon.

The new iMac’s come standard with a wireless keyboard, and the new magic mouse.  The wireless keyboard has been around for some time, but this was my first experience with it.  The battery seems to last a long time, one week and two days later, I still have 89% battery left.  The only thing I do not like about the wireless keyboard is the missing USB ports, which the wired keyboard provides.  I will most likely be ordering a wired keyboard, because it can sometimes be difficult getting to the back of my iMac to plug in USB devices.

The magic mouse definitely takes some getting use to.  At first I did not like the mouse.  It felt uncomfortable in my hand and the speed of the mouse seemed a little sluggish.  After a week of use, I do not even notice any of these problems.  The touch sensitive part of the mouse works great, but do not expect it to feel like a MacBook track pad.  The surfaces feel different; the magic mouse is a little more “sticky” than the smooth track pad on the MacBooks.  I hope apple adds more functionality to the touch sensors on the mouse, I would love to activate expose using the mouse.  Apple claims that the magic mouse gets four months of battery life.  I am skeptical, as of this review I have 77% battery left.  It is only natural for the mouse battery to drain quickly, because it is used all the time.  The mouse does have a switch to turn it off, but it takes 35 seconds to be discovered by the iMac once it is turned back on.  You can imagine how frustrating that can be, when you just want to get on and use your computer quickly.

The new iMac’s are great.  The only problem I ran into was the flash lag, but thankfully it was easily fixed (knock on wood).  I will have another update on the iMac in about a month.  If you want to see my unboxing, you can check that out at the end of this post.  I am also looking forward to reading some Quad Core iMac  reviews, hopefully they will ship soon.  Anyone order a quad core?  Or planning on picking one up?  Thanks for reading guys.

-Bill Savage

Unboxing:

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Let’s start with what $599 will buy you.  In the box you’ll get the machine itself, power supply, standard software disk, and a MiniDVI to DVI cable… and that’s it (you can see my unboxing here if you are interested). No keyboard, monitor, or mouse.  It really is meant as a “replace your Windows PC but keep your other stuff” machine.  The first thing that you really notice is that it truly is miniature, measuring 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) squared and 2 inches (5.1 cm) tall while weighing only 2.9 pounds (1.31 kg).  It of course maintains the form factor that Apple is known for, using its design to transition effortlessly from computer to conversation piece.  In fact, when I first showed it to my girlfriend, she assumed it was a Time Capsule and was amazed that an entire computer could fit into such a small box.

So what has Apple managed to cram into this tiny space?  Well, with the new upgrades from last week, I think the mini can now be considered a real contender as a primary desktop computer for the average user.  The base line model comes equipped with a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, and a 160GB hardrive.  Admittedly, these specs don’t blow your mind as they are on par with mid-range laptops, but for the vast majority of people this is really all the power they would need.  Even for the “prosumers” out there, I had no problems handling large image files in Photoshop CS4 and editing video clips with iMovie.  Of course, it’s not as fast as my iMac (that has nearly double the power), but it got the job done without any crashes or unreasonable processing times.  Speaking of video, the graphics are supplied by an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M that is capable of pushing to dual screens through the Mini-DVI and Mini-DisplayPort outputs on the back of the box.  The graphics card was able to handle Call Of Duty 4 and HD movies on my 103” screen without any issues.  If I have one complaint about the baseline specs, however, it’s going to have to be storage.  With only 160GB of space, you can easily start to run out of room  in the age of iTunes Movies and 10 Megapixal digital cameras.  You can upgrade to 320GB or 500GB for $100 and $200 respectively or even save yourself a few bucks and buy a SATA hard drive to do it yourself, but it would have been great for at least the 320GB to be standard.

Ultimately, if you are looking at breaking into the world of Mac without breaking your budget I would really take a hard look at the mini if I were you.  You are getting all the benefits of OS X and the included iLife program suite at half the price you would pay for an iMac and can even keep using your favorite monitor (or save up for that Cinema Display down the road).  For those who already use and love a Mac, well the mini is a great way to spread that love around the house (okay, that sounds a little dirty, but you know what I mean), with a design that is small enough for the kitchen or bedroom while being stylish enough for your home theater.

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THE MAGIC MOUSE – INTRO

Apple has officially released the world’s first multi-touch mouse. Yes, multi-touch, just like you’re used to on the MacBook Pro and also the iPhone/iPod Touch.
Simply using one or two fingers, you can zoom in and out, scroll up and down, side-to-side, 360˚ scrolling, and of course, clicking.

THE PROS

The Magic Mouse is by far the sexiest looking mouse. Ever.
Apple never seems to disappoint when it comes to looks, but let’s see how it performs.

This mouse connects wirelessly to your Mac using Bluetooth technology, taking up less space than other wireless mice that force you to plug in a receiver.

Magic Mouse is powered by two AA batteries, lasting up to four months, according to Apple.

It has a nice design. My brother told me, “it looks like a bar of soap,” which it does. On the top is a nice whitish, clear plastic.

On the bottom there is a power switch, battery ports, and a lovely Apple logo.

Tracking on the mouse is very smooth. It has two little black bars on the bottom to make it “Glide” on whatever surface you may be using.

There is no indication of where the buttons are, and, well, that’s because the whole thing is a button. The mouse smart, a little too smart. Tap the left corner, you left click, tap the right, you right, or secondary, click.

Scrolling is super easy as well. Just use your fingers and swipe up, down, and side-to-side.
Flicking your fingers fast scrolls to the top or bottom faster.
Be carefully not to accidentally right or left click while scrolling to fast.

Swiping side-to-side is a bit uncomfortable. You have to the down the mouse with your other fingers, otherwise you just swipe the mouse out of place.

THE CONS

You can’t actually “touch” to click, like most trackpads.

The multi-touch cannot use more than three fingers, which limits what you can actually do with it.

My brother has had the mouse for two days, and it already has a couple scratches.
Clearly not scratch-proof.

CONCLUSION

Overall, I think this is a million times better than the Mighty Mouse, and I highly recommend it. Plus, at only $69, why not get such an amazing multi-touch mouse?

-Mitchell Johnson

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Apple has released their products at a wonderful time; right before the huge release of Windows 7, the new and improved operating system (for PC computers) which has for the most part received good reviews. I think Apple had this event planned all along, for they wanted to ‘wow’ their customers and the tech community with stunning quality products to take light way  from Microsoft’s next big thing. But let’s not forget Christmas. I don’t personally see anymore new products coming out before Christmas, thus Apple has their holiday lineup ready. They have produced products such as the new iMac, stunning Laptops and even Magic in the Mouse to have people putting Apple at the Top of their Wish List!!!!

Comment Below and tell me what you think about the New update and if it was a success. I thank you for reading and hopefully enjoying

-Scoooooter

MTZ

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Rumors have it, that Apple could be supporting 6-core processing STANDARD with their new Mac Pro desktop releasing sometime in 2010. Intel, Apples CPU manufacture, has announced recently a new line of processors code named “Gulftown”. Intel’s 32nm chips have a reported 12mb L3 cache, and 12 threads per cpu(6). This is great news for anyone in the media bussiness, because when Apple comes out with single CPU machines, they come out with dual CPU machines. Could this mean a new 12-core processing beast?! We’re looking at a time frame of the first quarter of 2010. Exciting stuff if you ask me. Price points have not been released by Apple or even Intel… we’ll have to wait for those.

My thoughts:

Will this really be necessary? You think 8-core machines would be sufficient for most tasks for even the production companies, but this could be a good move for Apple. Personally, I think Apple will follow through with this one-hundred percent. Apple has always been known  stay on the right track with their hardware, operating system, design, and all their products. Keeping up with technology is what they’re best at, so I think their is a very good chance we could see an update to the Mac Pro, as it is needing some updating anyways.

Apple could also lose Mac Pro purchases if and when they release this “new” model. Some people, most people… don’t even need 4-cores, so why would they need 6 or 12-cores? This will be geared more toward you’re professional group of Mac users. Pricing shouldn’t be too bad at all for something like this. Everytime anything is upgraded internally with Mac’s, you see the price stay the same or even decrease when new technology is added. Not only has Apple made a good habit with that in general, but every time technology changes, the old stuff loses value.

What are your thoughts, let me know in the description!

-Colin Perschbacher

Sources: Digg.com,Apple Insider

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If you can’t wait to read this review, head on over to  this page to get your hands on it.

Well, I’ve had it loaded up on my iMac for about 48 hours now, and have already come to some conclusions.  First off, it’s fast.  Like a dress coming off on prom night fast.  This version hasn’t been officially tested yet, but my (very) unscientific testing showed it to be 10-15% faster than Safari 4 or Firefox 3.5.  As far as rendering content, I haven’t noticed any issues, and when I personally tested it using the Acid3 test, it scored a perfect 100/100.  So, bottom-line, as far as the nuts and bolts of internet browsing, a have to rank Chrome on par or better than the current Mac offerings.

Acid3 Test Results

Let’s move on to talk about interface and features.  The first thing you’ll notice is the “tabs on top” style layout.  This is unique among browsers in that instead of displaying the tabs below the bookmark bar, they appear where normally the title bar would be.  This would be a plus if it actually gave you more viewing area, but because they don’t push all the way up to be level with the “close-minimize-resize” button, it really isn’t adding that much.  One thing I do really like about the tabs though, is the ability to “drag out” a page.  This feature is already in Safari, but trying something similar in Firefox will result in a shortcut on your desktop.

Dragging out a tab

Something else borrowed from the Safari interface is the history based home screen that allows you to see a panorama of your most visited sites.  A nice improvement over the Safari version, though, is the ability to display the sites in a list style format.  Also on the Chrome home screen you can see recently closed tabs, which is a nice option to get back to a page you accidently closed.

On the “things like Firefox” list is the ability to apply themes to customize the look of your browser window, with a multitude of designs and colors available.

One thing conspicuously missing from the browser is a search field, located in the upper right corner in both Safari and Firefox.  Instead, in Chrome this feature is provided by typing non-urls into the address field.

Overall, I think that if you are 100% committed your current browser, I don’t see any “must have” feature in Chrome that will drive you to switch. However, if you are looking for a browser that offers a good mix of both Safari and Firefox, I recommend giving Chrome a try.  If nothing else, by downloading this non-official release version, you can say you were one of the first to use Chrome on a Mac.

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Now this is not the first time the iPhone has come away with #1, for the iPhone has been looking down at the opposition since 2008. This repeat award encourages me to get an iPhone more and more, for its just good press. It’s like opening up Urban Spoon and looking at two restaurants. One has horrible reviews and the other has amazing reviews…which will you go to?

Let’s break down some of the Facts:

• “particularly well in ease of operation, operating system, features, and physical design.”-J.D. Power and Associate
• Apple scored 803/1,000 in the Business Category and 811/1,000 in the Consumer Category.
• Many factors determined the Score, and Battery Function only came up with 9%

One last note..Palm Pre was not in the top 3 on either of the surveys.

*Battery Life: Click below to check out the Video to help improve your iPhone Battery Life

-Scooter

MTZ

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