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Apple has invoked a new campaign for switching to the Mac. The website details all the good stuff about the Mac, and its cross compatibility with many products and OS’s. There are also 6 ads, each available in small, medium, large and HD format. The ads have two characters, comedian John Hodgeman playing the PC [...]

This is a really great idea. I wonder why no-one ever thought of it before. The idea is it occupies a standard SD/MMC slot and is the same size. As well as having a 1GB capacity, it also has a 802.11g WiFi chip embedded into it. This means no extra attachements for that Treo or [...]

Henner Malchert decided that the measly hard drive inside his new Core Duo Mac Mini wasn’t enough, so he fitted an external SATA drive. He took it apart and removed the 2.5″ HDD and fitted a SATA cable which he ran through one of the small venting holes on the bottom of the mini. He [...]

Then came Michael Dell with the other side of the story. Why not put OS 10 on a far cheaper Dell Windows PC instead of a costly Mac? You’d get the best of both worlds and shell out far less.
In an e-mail to Forbes magazine, Dell said: “If Apple decides to open the Mac OS [...]

This is a detailed tutorial with many photos showing you how to modify your Xbox 360 to water cool it. XboxExpert, posted a topic on XboxScene forums showing what he used, and how he modded his 360. Be warned, this is for the pros only! And what price does it come at?
$209.99 - ThermalTake CL-W0042 [...]

This is a pretty cool device. It fits in between the 360’s HDD and the 360 itself. Then it links up to your PC via USB and you can move/transfer data that is not in use. It also has a blue LED’s on the side to give it that extra touch. It works with Xplorer360 [...]

It’s not that I’m mulling over a platform switch—rather, this XP overload is part of Macworld Lab’s efforts to see how Microsoft’s operating system performs on Apple hardware now that software exists that enables you to boot into XP on an Intel-based Mac. With the help from our sister publication, PC World, we’ve been running [...]

Ever since Apple came out with their Boot Camp yesterday, more and more news of it has been posted. All sorts of things so I thought I’d make a collection of links to the various bits and pieces!

Installation of Boot Camp Flickr Set
Installation of Boot Camp Video
Short Review of Boot Camp on a 20-inch iMac [...]

Apple has released their own solution to installing Windows on an Intel Mac - Boot Camp. Apple’s complete solution, though still in beta, provides owners of Intel Macs to easily partition their hard drive and install Windows XP SP2 (Home and Pro) with a cool GUI for changing bootup drive. When booting hold down the [...]