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The 27-inch iMac is already a milestone for Apple through its inclusion of a truly greater-than-HD display, but the addition of Core i5 and Core i7 processors transforms it into a near powerhouse. This is the first iMac in recent memory to come close enough to Apple’s workstations that it could replace one of them. Our review of the Core i5-equipped iMac will find out how close it comes to that goal and whether it’s a worthwhile option for any other prospective Mac desktop owner….
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Audio, Hardware, Multimedia, Music
Sonos, best known for wireless music systems that link to your iTunes library and internet services like Pandora, Rhapsody and Napster, is offering a one piece, 5 speaker system that can be placed in any room. It’s called the Zone Player S5 and it’s US $399 direct from Sonos or dealers around the country.
Sonos shipped me a review system to try for 30 days, and I thought the sound was great. I already had a mutli-room Sonos system so adding the new portable player was just a matter of plugging it into AC power and pressing two buttons on the S5.
If you don’t already have a Sonos system, you have to plug your unit into a router to connect to your music library and the internet. If that doesn’t work in your home layout, you can buy what Sonos calls a Zone Bridge (US $99) that plugs into your router and lets the S5 make a wireless connection. Once that basic pairing is made, you can add as many other Sonos music systems as you like, all connecting over a wireless mesh network.
The system sounds quite good, given the limits of the small desktop-friendly size (8.5 x 14.4 x 4.8 inches). There are 5 speakers, two tweeters, two 3″ mid-range drivers, and one 3.5″ woofer all driven by individual amplifiers. The woofer is a ducted port design and the rear port serves double duty as a carrying handle.
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TUAWSonos adds a portable music player with room filling sound originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Yesterday, Judge William Alsup, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, dealt Psystar a crushing blow in its ongoing litigation with Apple over whether or not Psystar could market and sell non-Apple computers running modified copies of Apple’s operating system. If you’re not familiar with the circus case, I refer you to, well…grab a coffee and click here. The two companies, embroiled in litigation since early last year, recently completed pre-trial discovery and each filed cross motions for summary judgment.
Judge Alsup put the ultimate hurt on Psystar when it granted Apple’s motion for summary judgment and denied Psystar’s motion for the same. In a sweeping order (courtesy Groklaw), the court agreed with Apple’s take on the case and dismissed all of Psystar’s defenses, both on the merits and for having waived and failed to properly plead.
The end result was a dramatic and startling court order in an ongoing series of dramatic legal squabbles between the two companies. And at least one of Psystar’s attorneys saw this coming. The litigation doesn’t end here; various issues still remain for trial such as breach of contract and trademark infringement, but Psystar has been gutted. The court is clearly unsympathetic to Psystar’s core position and while damages on the copyright issues falling in Apple’s favor in the order have not been ruled upon, it would probably behoove Psystar to start looking under the couch cushions for spare change.
A hearing is scheduled for December 14 on the remaining issues and for damages.
Read on for a more detailed analysis of the court’s order….
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An iPhone app illustrated with caricatures of the 111th Congress finally gets the green light
At least someone at Apple (AAPL) has a sense of humor.
Less than a week after the iPhone Developer Program rejected as "objectionable" and "defamatory" an application illustrated with caricatures of U.S. Senators and Congressmen, the company has reversed itself and approved [...]
Apple this week won a decisive victory in its lawsuit against clone maker Psystar. Judge William Alsup has ruled in a summary judgment that the Florida-based defendant had violated copyright laws, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) through creating and selling PCs with unauthorized copies of Mac OS X. By modifying the Mac OS X bootloader and kernel extensions to allow non-Apple hardware to run, Psystar has violated Apple’s “exclusive right” to determine how and where Mac OS X runs, the judgment reads….
The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab co-host John F. Braun joined the Mac Roundtable host Chuck Joiner to talk about the problems Mac users sometimes experience and how to deal with them.
Apple reportedly approached mobile-ad king AdMob weeks before Google’s $750 million dollar takeover of the company.
In a crushing defeat for the clone Mac maker, Psystar was on the losing end of a crucial court decision in the company’s ongoing legal battle with Apple.
A federal judge rules in Apple's favor in the Psystar copyright infringement case
Nearly a year and a half after a Miami company called Psystar announced that it was selling "Open Computers" pre-installed with Apple's (AAPL) Mac OS X Leopard — and 17 months after Apple sued Psystar for copyright infringement — the case has come [...]
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