Posted June 3rd, 2008
by Ryu
at 3:09 am in Institutions.
The Macosphere is rife with almost-confirmed news of Apple launching their Back to School promotion tomorrow, promising a free 8GB iPod Touch to any University student who purchases a MacBook/MBP/MBA/iMac/Mac Pro.
While it is no question that this offer will definitely extend to Singapore, one wonders if the University Notebook tenders which involves separate promotions from the Back to School promo, will have similar offers.
Currently the expected reseller to be awarded the tender for the NUS/NTU Mac notebook tender is Sapura Global, who have been selling the MacBooks in the 2 local universities for the past 2 years. Last year’s promotion saw no free iPods with the college purchases.
Posted June 3rd, 2008
by Ryu
at 3:03 am in iPhone.
Cult of Mac is reporting that the new iPhone will have;
-3G
-GPS
-2 x memory (16GB and 32GB)
-22 percent thinner
-Better battery life
and will only cost $200 USD (roughly 273SGD)!!!! OMG! OMFG!
This is going to be really fun.
Posted June 1st, 2008
by Ryu
at 2:53 am in Mobile Me.
Check out this advertisement that is now on the .Mac site.
Mobile sharing. Mobile viewing. And doesn’t “Mobile Me” sounds like the next line in this sequence?
I am not trying to be lame at all.
Posted June 1st, 2008
by Ryu
at 2:49 am in Switching.
David Alison has a nice post about his experience switching over to the Mac. Not to encourage any mass conversion here, but at least you have an additional resource to refer to when you are trying to convince your friends and family that Mac converts are not only made up of elites, geniuses, rock stars, famous movie directors and composers.
Posted May 31st, 2008
by Ryu
at 8:06 pm in Switching.
Thought of the day: If a Mac switcher starts hurling abuse or constantly complaining why can’t Mac OS X is lousy or stupid because it does not do things like how Windows does, then it’s time to flame the fellow.
Take this thread for a good example.
Just because we don’t clean a floor of dust by sweeping it over and over again with a half-broken broom, does not mean that our way of using a vacuum cleaner is lousier or stupid.
Posted May 31st, 2008
by Ryu
at 1:27 am in .Mac.
Shucks. I just got my .Mac and this had to happen to me.
Daring Fireball and the Macosphere are widely reporting that .Mac will have a major upgrade, as well as a change of name to possibly “Mobile Me”, come WWDC 2008.
I’m all happy for the change, so long they don’t suddenly announce that .Mac’s replacement service will now be free with each Mac purchase. I’ll seriously kill someone if that happens.
Posted May 26th, 2008
by Ryu
at 3:55 pm in Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop’s Project Manager John Nack addresses the crazy amount of rumors going on the net about Photoshop CS4 getting GPU acceleration in his blog post here.
Basically he states that everything you heard about the story is bull. GPU acceleration has not been promised for any version of Photoshop, much less CS4. Hell they don’t even have a release date for CS4 yet.
Sounds like the Windows people are dying for an answer to the GPU-accelerated pixelmator and acorn, but sorry guys, you unprivileged lot are not going to get something as beautiful as pixelmator in a million years, and certainly not on that 20-year-old shitload of code known as Photoshop. GPU-accelerated image editors are for the elites, like, for example, Mac users.
Posted May 12th, 2008
by Ryu
at 11:04 pm in iPhone.
It’s finally official: Singtel, as first reported by MacRyu many many months ago, will be carrying the 3G iPhone into Singapore, and various other countries through its subsidiaries. According to Italian sources, the 3G iPhone will be available in Italy in June, and thus we should expect Singtel to offer it in the few weeks after them as well, instead of the previously reported September timeline.
You can read the report off Appleinsider here
On other iPhone-related news, AT&T is showing a iPhone Black in their inventory list as shown here. Is this proof that this is real?
Posted May 12th, 2008
by Ryu
at 9:04 am in iPhone.
Some really interesting news/rumors to report. According to a relatively reliable source, the 3G iPhone might be totally unlocked in all countries, directly in the firmware. There will still be “exclusive carriers” in various countries, but these carriers will essentially be selling unlocked phones which can be used with other GSM carriers as well.
This sounds like great news as the new 2.0 firmware and the lack of a need to unlock the phone via hacking will greatly undermine the need for jailbreaking.
In other news, we have unverified rumors that the 3G iPhone will see the light of day actually BEFORE WWDC, within the next 2 weeks. This is apparently so that developers will be able to actually have 3G iPhones with them during the WWDC sessions themselves, as well as stick to the tradition of not releasing consumer products during WWDC. With the news of the total unavailability of iPhones in US and the UK released last night, this news seems accurate.
But of course, until we actually see the 3G iPhone, we won’t know for sure.
Posted May 11th, 2008
by Ryu
at 1:03 pm in Servicing.
Micro 2000, one of the long-time Apple authorised service centres and certainly one of the best if not the best, is apparently moving out of their long time location at BMW Performance Centre at Alexandra. They are now at Sunshine Plaza, and will apparently open other branches elsewhere in the Republic. Will update with more info and the official address soon.
Usually I like to recommend my friends to go directly to iShop for servicing, due to the general dislike for the other Apple authorised reseller in Orchard, but ever since the other shop outsourced the servicing to Diversitec/Sapura, word has it that the service has improved.
However, since Micro 2000, easily my first choice for servicing, is now at Sunshine Plaza, there is no reason for anyone to go to either iShop or Epicentre to do your servicing. Just pop down to Dhoby Ghaut!
Edit: As noted by _dren_, Micro2000’s main office is also moving out from Alexandra Road and shifting to Joo Seng Road.
