NY Times on the Apple Netbook

The Times’ John Markoff:

That would seem to confirm findings that a search engine company shared with me on condition that I not reveal its name: The company spotted Web visits from an unannounced Apple product with a display somewhere between an iPhone and a MacBook. Is it the iPhone 3.0 or the NetMac 1.0?

You can surf the web with a Newton. But still.

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On Apple Netbooks

I love Macs. I make my living working on, around, and with them. I use a late-model iMac at home as my main machine, and even though I have a MacBook from work, my main laptop is the Asus Eee PC. It’s portable (8.9 inches across), runs Ubuntu, and is very handy to take places, especially if I ride my bike.

But I would drop it in a heartbeat if Apple released a netbook.

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Dumpster Diving on the Internet

A friend sent me an email this week:

Sometimes I like to kill time by trying to find obscure, obsolete, and completely random articles in the Apple Knowledge Base that should’ve been taken out a long time ago. Here’s a good example: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=790. Now, here’s the duel I challenge you to: find a more obscure/obsolete one.

An interesting challenge, but an easy one at the end of the day. I found article 116 which explains how “to use Apple Writer with the Paymar Lower Case Adapter.” The oldest article I found was number 3, which reads:

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