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PCWord has never be so friendly to the Mac. In tests against Dell, Toshiba and others, the MacBook Pro’s PC WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88 beats beats all others. The article is swimming in praise as it compares features and compliments Mac Book Pro beauty. Yet, they could not get Apple’s predicted 5.7 hours of battery use. They could only get 2.75 hours. Ending the article that way was not a surprise. More … (Thanks BEV)

They must have been running a DVD all that time.

Most of the world uses 3G cell phones, except for the USA, iTWire opines that the features of the iPhone will over come the lack of 3G in sales for the UK and Germany. Unlimited data being one feature that is expected to be popular.The article considers Apple’s indication that a 3G or 3.5G iPhone will arrive in the first quarter of 2008 as being critical in Europe’s acceptance of iPhone for the short term. More …

More than a year ago, there was a great disturbance in the force, as it was announced that one could easily take control of a Mac. Then the story unraveled, when it was reported that local access was necessary. When David Maynor disclosed the attack, he was severally chastised in the Mac media. As Apple patched the vulnerability last September,. ComputerWorld correctly asks, “so why publish the Mac hack now?” More …