The 'sealed-box' Mac: Cutting-edge design or planned obsolescence?

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	The 'sealed-box' Mac: Cutting-edge design or planned obsolescence? Apple's new top-of-the-line 15-in. MacBook Pro, with its ground-breaking Retina display, is drool-worthy, says columnist Richard Hoffman. But it comes with a cost: There are no user-replaceable parts whatsoever. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Drobo Drobo SAN for Business Live Demo Daily! We want you to learn from the very best–Drobo experts–available every day. Participate in live interactive sessions to see a live demo of Drobo products, ask questions, validate deployment ideas. Our experts cover configuration, sizing, network best practices, and infrastructure monitoring–and talk VMware, Hyper-V, iSCSI, Tiering, SSD acceleration. Join us for a live demo every business day, Monday to Friday In this Issue Richi Jennings: New iPhone 5 release date nears: More pictures leak Apple stock price hits record high as investors await iPhone 5, iPad Mini 16 top apps for your Google Nexus 7: all free Michael Horowitz: iOS upgrade failure wipes out iPad Jonny Evans: Apple's iPeople get world's largest iPhone arts exhibition Jonny Evans: Is Apple's iTV television plan in trouble? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Richi Jennings: New iPhone 5 release date nears: More pictures leak As the New iPhone -- or iPhone 5 -- release date gets ever closer, the inveitable feature rumors get ever stronger. Bolstered by yet more pictures of Apple's (NASDA:AAPL) components, fanbois are in a frenzy of fanaticism. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers can't get enough of Apple rumors (and Apple is probably happy to silently oblige). Read More Apple stock price hits record high as investors await iPhone 5, iPad Mini Apple's share price on Friday closed at an all-time high, climbing nearly $12 to just over $648 a share, a number that sets the value of the firm at more than $600 billion. Read More 16 top apps for your Google Nexus 7: all free You have a shiny new Google Nexus 7 Android tablet. Now it's time to make it your own with some valuable mobile applications. CIO.com's Al Sacco shares his favorite Nexus 7 tablet apps for remote-PC access, instant messaging, sports and more. Best of all: They're all free. Read More WHITE PAPER: Datawatch Bringing Big Data into your Analytics Strategy. Learn how a report analytics solution can eliminate your content blind spot by allowing you to get to all of your organization's data, so you may take action in improving your business. Learn more. Michael Horowitz: iOS upgrade failure wipes out iPad Once upon a time, I owned a first generation iPad. Now, thanks to a bug in iTunes that caused an upgrade from iOS 4 to 5 to fail, all my apps and data are gone. What was an iPad is now a paper weight.  Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's iPeople get world's largest iPhone arts exhibition The event might not appeal to crack-smoking lawyers, doesn't need a fingerprint scanner to get in and probably won't make it onto cable, but Apple watchers might be interested in yet another iPhone-driven example of cultural progression, the world's largest ever exhibition of art made on the device. Read More Jonny Evans: Is Apple's iTV television plan in trouble? Apple is chatting with cable television firms with a view to offering a variant of the Apple TV as a set top box, but do these discussions suggest the company's plan to disrupt the TV industry faces resistance? Read More
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