The first working tablet on RIM property
Jim Dalrymple of loopinsight.com visited RIM’s east coast offices, hoping to be able to compare the iPad 2 to the elusive RIM PlayBook.
Podcast recommendation: On Apple and rumours
Joshua Schnell recently spoke to Jim Dalrymple and Stephen Hackett about dealing with rumours about Apple and technology in general, the process of deciding what to post on their blogs and journalistic quality in a business that often relies on pages views and ad revenue.
A very insightful discussion on the insanity that is the Apple/tech sphere that I can wholeheartedly recommend.
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I’ve completely stopped reading sites like Gizmodo, Apple Insider, MacRumours and the likes, simply because they provide nothing of value anymore; they just spew unsubstantiated bits of information at their readers.
On the other hand I really enjoy reading both macgasm and The Loop, because they provide well filtered and well written content on topics that I’m interested in. Sites like the aforementioned are a refreshing change from the incessant chatter that surrounds Apple.
A few of the other sites that I enjoy for the same reasons are asymco.com, daringfireball.net, arstechnica.com, Macworld, and The Macalope.
Oh and no one should go out of the house without the current episode of Angry Mac Bastards on their iPhone/iPod, because they cut through the bullshit like a hot bat’leth through butter.
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No major updates for the MacBook Pro, at least in my opinion
As always there are quite a few rumours floating around, concerning the seemingly imminent update of Apple’s MacBook Pro line of notebooks.
Some predictions are reasonable, some aren’t. The ones belonging to the first category are the introduction of the Sandy Bridge architecture to the entire line-up, significant price drops for SSD-Storage and possibly even higher resolution displays for the 13” model.
What I don’t believe is a change in form factor or material — I’m referring to the rumour that Apple will move to Liquid Metal for the casing — and neither do I believe that we’re going to see LightPeak to make its first appearance on the Mac. The introduction of major innovations like this would surely happen during a press event and so far Apple hasn’t sent out any invitations to the usual suspects.
