During Apple’s iPad mini event, the company introduced the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. While the machine has a wordy name, it’s a welcome sight to those of us who have always loved the 13-inch MacBook Pro. I’ve reviewed the machine two times over the years, both times showing my love of the form factor and power.
These days, I’m using a 15-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro, and love it, but still ache for something a little smaller. When Apple announced the 13 Retina, I got excited.
The other day, Squarespace reported that downtime was expected due to Sandy. However, since that initial post, the company has hauling fuel up seventeen flights of stairs to keep their servers running on backup power.
By hand.
In buckets.
Apparently downtime due to a hurricane was unacceptable.
Here’s an Internet high five, Squarespace.
(And no, this is not a sponsored post. I really think this is a great example that other companies could learn a few things from.)
Apollo vet Sy Liebergot took Ars Technica writer though the Apollo Mission Control Center. These rooms were used to get men to the moon and back, on technology that is laughably weak by today’s standards.
This hour-long documentary is a result of my brother’s trip to Sudan this summer. It tells the horrifying story of the genocide currently taking place in the Nuba mountains.
I’m running it now on my iPhone 5. From looking over the release notes, this addresses just about every weird thing I’ve seen on my device.
This week, I was joined by Shawn Blanc, and we discussed the iPad mini and Surface RT, as well as the new Iron Man 3 trailer and Disney’s acquisition of Star Wars.
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While the service was a little buggy at first, I’ve come to really enjoy iTunes Match. I’ll be letting it renew.
My wife loves Clear on her iPhone, and I’m sure she’ll love this, too.
The other end of my state is now home to what is possibly the most powerful supercomputer on Earth.
And possibly butt chugging.
Anything that is simply shrunk down or scaled up feels amateurish. The iPad mini feels like an iPad, it’s something you can have with fun with and accomplish tasks on.
The iPad mini hasn’t wrapped up the “cheapest tablet” market by any stretch of the imagination. But the “best small tablet” market? Consider it captured.
This isn’t just an Apple tablet made to a budget. This isn’t just a shrunken-down iPad. This is, in many ways, Apple’s best tablet yet, an incredibly thin, remarkably light, obviously well-constructed device that offers phenomenal battery life. No, the performance doesn’t match Apple’s latest and yes, that display is a little lacking in resolution, but nothing else here will leave you wanting. At $329, this has a lot to offer over even Apple’s more expensive tablets.
WTF, mate.
The tail appears damaged, but the rest of the shuttle looks to be intact.