Posts tagged Apple

Motorola Xoom Drops to £249

Jan21
2012 Written by Mauldor

The Motorola Xoom started life as a £399 10 inch tablet, competing against the iPad 2, the theory was it had double the ram for the same price as the baseline iPad 2. Sales were bad and soon they dropped the price down to £329 and in November 2011 brought out the Xoom 2. Recently a few retailers have slashed the price down to £249, such as PCWorld & Carphone warehouse (the same people who also slashed the prices of Blackberry Playbook). I thought I would pop along to local PCWorld and see if they had any in, online stated they had none in stock.

Posted in Tech - Tagged 3.2, 32gig, android, honycomb, ICS, ipad, motorola, tablet, xoom

Blackberry Playbook 32GIG Review

Jan08
2012 Written by Mauldor

BlackBerry Playbook

I currently own an iPad 1, wife has an iPhone 4S and I have a Windows Mobile 7 Phone, so I have enough devices to do what I need on the go. I have been looking at tablets for a while now and a few caught my eye such as Sony Tablet S, Blackberry Playbook and the Motorola Xoom. The end choice is always about money, splashing out £400 for an iPad 2 was too much money in my books and even the £329 price points of Android Tablets seem a bit high. The two machines that are at the £200 price point are the Blackberry Playbook and Arnova 9 G2.

Posted in Review - Tagged android, archos, beta, blackberry, DDPBInstaller, ios, ipad, playbook, rim, sideload, twitter, xoom

Happy New Year

Dec31
2011 Written by Mauldor

As 2011 draws to a close, thought it fitting to write a short piece recapping on a few major points and of course looking forward to what 2012 may bring. A lot of people I have talked to seem to think that 2011 was a bad year for them, while I cannot offer any thoughts on how they felt for 2011, I look at 2011 as a time for chance. So what happened in 2011 and how do I see the next year progressing?

Posted in Personal - Tagged 2012, job, new, recap, training, work, year

Smartphone Smackdown

Dec27
2011 Written by Mauldor

The three main smartphone’s out there at the moment are Android, Apple and Windows Phone 7, of course there is a lot of makers of these phones (apart from the iPhone, only Apple make them). It just so happens that I have to hand three phones to compare, this been the HTC Hero (Running Android 2.1), a slow and small phone by today’s standards but it does give me a chance to compare. The wife has the iPhone 4S and I got a new work phone, the HTC Trophy, A Windows 7.5 phone. Is there a clear winner here? Will the iPhone wipe the floor with the rest? Onward to battle.

Posted in Review - Tagged android, iphone, mobile, phone, portable, smart, smartphone, windows, wp7

Why I choose the iPhone 4S for the Wife

Nov29
2011 Written by Mauldor

My wife was in need of a new phone, her last phone she put in the washing machine by mistake which killed it dead, the only problem was the contract does not run out till march 2012. She uses the iPad all the time (the one I won from GFI) and she is not really technical minded at all. The phone she was using was my HTC Hero which runs Android 2.1 and she could not for the life of her get used to that, it was in fact too complicated. There was a few options, one of these would have been a blackberry device for example, plenty of them on offer for £10 a month and it has a keyboard. Why did we go with the iPhone 4S over any other phone? Read on to find out.

Tagged 4S, carphone, contract, ipad, iphone, warehouse

Is it Fixed yet?

Sep21
2011 Written by Mauldor

An update on the broken iMac, I took it to an Authorised Apple repair centre about 30 minutes drive away on Wednesday 14th Sep, dropping it off right after work. I expected them to start working in this on the Thursday and with some luck have it ready for collection by Saturday, I say this given that they had hardly any items out on the shop floor and never looked that busy. They took until Friday in fact to work out what was wrong and they come to the conclusion it was a power supply. I called them right back explaining that if you hold the power button in while plugging in the power cable, all the fans come on – this to me says it is not the power supply. They assured me thought that this is what Apple said it could be – what was I to know right?

Tagged broken, centre, drive, iMac, powersupply, repair

The Day Apple Died

Sep13
2011 Written by Mauldor

Refresher – I bought a refurbished iMac 27″ 2010 model from the apple store on the 3rd June 2011 and apart from one of the USB ports playing up, the machine to my knowledge ran just fine. On Sunday the 11th Sep, I was using the machine and it worked just fine, I powered it down as normal, switching off the Mouse to save on battery. Monday morning I pressed the power button and nothing happened. I started to go through a sequence of tests, I got my meter out to check the fuse, tried a different power cable and checked on-line to see what test I can do. I choose to call Apple Support and at this stage expected for them to sort out this issue by means of a person coming out or whatever, how wrong I was.

Tagged applecare, centre, dell, died, iMac, pickup, service, support, Warranty

Mac vs. PC – the age old debate

Jul28
2011 Written by Mauldor

The age old argument that has been going around since the dawn of time, which is best – the apple or the PC and in this sense we mean either a computer running Windows or it could be Linux of course. For the Tech savvy end user, building your own machine can be cheaper, much more powerful and more upgradable than the Mac range of computers. On the other hand we have a beautiful all-in-one that is the iMac and nothing can beat the one plug professional looking box which also happens to have the 27″ screen of course. I wanted to use this post not to go through the age old arguments but to ask the question of “why should I spend all that money and buy an iMac”

Tagged build, cost, custom, expensive, limited, money, osx

Where is my Free OSX Lion you promised me apple?

Jul21
2011 Written by Mauldor

Of all the companies that are out there, the one that I thought could get it right with a major operating system rollout would be apple. They stated that if you bought a computer from apple from the 25th June onwards, you are entitled to OSX Lion when it came out free of charge. The problem is, the servers that handle verifying if your are entitled to acode or not is having trouble matching serial numbers against inventory. When I headed to the page I entered my infomation in there only for it to tell me:

Sorry, we can’t find the serial number you provided. Please recheck your serial number and enter it again.

Posted in Macintosh - Tagged date, free, lion, osx, overloaded, serial, servers, support, upgrade, upto

First impressions of the new 27 inch iMac

Jul07
2011 Written by Mauldor

I thought I would write a new post with my thoughts on the new iMac that I bought, this may help some people who are not sure if spending that much money on a computer is worth it or not. I need to add of course that I have owned the 24 inch iMac and know enough about this sort of thing already. Given the time since using Apple computer in a proper sense (I have a Hackintosh running 10.5.8), it would be nice to see what has changed, how much I had forgot and how working on such a large display would either Aid me in my work or hinder me due to the size. Let us begin then on this journey back to the mac. READ MORE »

Posted in Macintosh - Tagged Hackintosh, iMac, impression, mighty, mouse

Posts tagged Apple

Motorola Xoom Drops to £249

Blackberry Playbook 32GIG Review

Happy New Year

Smartphone Smackdown

Why I choose the iPhone 4S for the Wife

Is it Fixed yet?

The Day Apple Died

Mac vs. PC – the age old debate

Where is my Free OSX Lion you promised me apple?

First impressions of the new 27 inch iMac

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