Apple

One of the tiny little annoyances with the upgrade to Leopard, was that Synergy, a great little application that provides control of iTunes from the menu bar, looked a little unpolished when using my favourite ‘Tabbed’ style interface.

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Probably the second biggest change for me this last week after that of my new job (especially given the amount of time I spend on my Mac) is the upgrade to MacOS X 10.5 ‘Leopard’. Sadly this hasn’t been a totally enjoyable experience given a number of well documented UI flaws, as well as the usual slew of bugs you’d expect in a debut release.

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Two weeks ago I purchased a new PowerMac G5. Whilst I was sensible enough to wait until the updated machines were announced (pre-loaded with Tiger), I by-passed my usual pre purchase research and headed straight for the nearest and newest Apple Store and quickly found myself a black t-shirted sales assistant (flown in to help from a store in the States).

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It’s been a long long wait, but at it’s finally here.

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Another MacWorld Expo, another slew of gifts from Apple. The new ‘Mac mini’ is just what the company has needed to have been selling for a long time, too long in fact. With this product (aimed squarely at the PC buying consumer) alongside the continued success of the iPod, Apple is slowly becoming a mass consumer brand.

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Further to this post last year, and the announcement of a new Apple Store in Birmingham, today I saw the site of the new store in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre.

It looks like quite a small store is planned which is a shame, but it does have a location just beyond the main entrance from New Street/High Street, so it least it will be highly visible.

This Flickr user has posted a far better photo!

Apple today announced it’s 3rd generation iMac. Keeping to the all-in-one form factor, this revision sees the LCD screen mounted alongside the G5 powered CPU and other hardware, mounted on one leg - reminiscent of the recently released Apple Cinema displays.

I can’t help but notice similarities to the original Macintosh of 1984 - well from the front, certainly not from it’s 2” side!