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AppleInsider: Apple Computer has acknowledged that a problem exists with some of its Intel MacBooks where the notebook computers may intermittently shut down, but has vowed to fix those systems free of charge. More …
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InfoWorld says that with its high hardware requirement and simply nice features, XP’s successor’s not worth rushing into.
Oliver Rist writes “I just finished previewing Vista Release Candidate 1 for the Test Center, and I suddenly realized I’m more underwhelmed than I anticipated. [...] . If Microsoft was going to deploy loads of programming talent to figure out a specific technical issue, I wish it had done it for WinFS or the full version of the  Next Generation Secure Computing Base. Instead, I now have a much slicker-looking version of Windows XP … along with significantly increased hardware requirements. I don’t mind the 1GB of RAM baseline so much. But the need for a 3D-accelerator in any PC that wants to run Aero sticks in my craw.” More ….