Macintosh Tipz » MacBook Pro http://www.macintoshtipz.com Tech reviews and more! Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:47:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Mac ownership growing rapidly. http://www.macintoshtipz.com/blog/2009/10/mac-user/ http://www.macintoshtipz.com/blog/2009/10/mac-user/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:33:51 +0000 mjohnson http://mactipz.fatcow.com/?p=573 The number of Mac owning households continues to grow rapidly throughout the world, but according to a study, nearly 85% of Mac owning households, also own at least one (1) PC.

An NDP’s 2009 Household Penetration study states that about 12% of US computer households have at least one Mac, beating last years 9%. It also that close to 85% of those Mac users own a PC.

“Multiple computer ownership is a common thread in Apple computer households, with 66 percent of households owning three or more computers, compared to just 29 percent of Windows PC households. Apple owning households are decidedly more mobile as well, with 72 percent of them owning a notebook, whereas only 50 percent of households that have a Windows PC own a notebook.” – NDP

Another thing this study notes, is that Apple users tend to be more “tech friendly.” On average, Apple households seem to own more consumer electronics, compared to Windows users. In fact, it’s almost twice as much as a PC user owns.

Source: NDP 2009 Household Penetration Study

Looking at this study, I’d say that in the next couple years, about 50% of people in the US will own a Mac.

]]> http://www.macintoshtipz.com/blog/2009/10/mac-user/feed/ 2 13″- UniBody MacBook Pro Unboxing http://www.macintoshtipz.com/blog/2009/09/13-unibody-macbook-pro-unboxing/ http://www.macintoshtipz.com/blog/2009/09/13-unibody-macbook-pro-unboxing/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:41:00 +0000 Eli http://mactipz.fatcow.com/?p=256 So here we have the 13″ MacBook Pro. Brand new out of the box. Taking a look at the box you, of course, have iLife, an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM, 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and 2GB of RAM. It is also equipped with a 160GB hard drive spinning at 5400 rpm. This baby is fast! Featured in iLife 09′ is iMovie, iPhoto, Garage Band, and iWeb.

iMovie is a very simple and easy application with user-friendly interface designed to edit video projects. With the click of a button you can add titles, transitions, media, and more. This application is also equipped to handle more advanced editing, including Green Screening and Video Cropping. iPhoto is an extremely user compatible application that allows users to organize photos, add filters, and more. The advanced features are face detection, and, amazingly, place detection using a GPS-enabled camera. GarageBand, very simply, handles all audio. wether that audio be Drag-and-Drop Loop technology, or editing a simple ringtone can all be done with a few clicks in GarageBand. Last, but not least, iWeb. Beastly aplication! One of the easisest web-developing softwares available today! iWeb is equipped with dozens of themes and templates available for your editing pleasures. Posting photos, videos, and music; it can ALL be done with decent publishing time. Snow Leopard has already been pre-installed and runs BEAUTIFULLY right out of the box. As you know, Snow Leopard is the latest and greatest Mac OS, and it is fast! To find out more on the new Snow Leopard  visit Apple.com WOW! That’s just Apple.

This has been Forest with GoMacForest and hope you all have enjoyed this overview of the new 13″ UniBody MacBook Pro. Check out my video below for a more in-depth, hands on unboxing. Enjoy! 

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