It is so disappointing when you buy a new Mac and after a few days you find a newer one is available !!

Even if you ask sellers in the Apple store, they’ll not give you a clear information, coz they should sell what is available now, usually.

These days I’m thinking to get a new iMac, and i searched the internet deeply about it and when it is rumored to be updated.

while searching, i found a very very useful page in the well-known mac rumors website, which gives you complete information and guide you if you are planing to get any of Apple’s devices.

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

It shows the number of days since last update is released, calculate the average changing life time for each one of the devices and gives one of four recommendations

Buy Now! – Product just updated

Neutral – Mid product cycle

Buy only if you need it – Approaching the end of a cycle

Before I sleep, in my car on my way to the university and on my way to almol7ag, I spend time with my self thinking, about anything and everything, silly things, worthy things !!

I realized, thinking is the feed of the spirit.

Sometimes I think about actions and reactions of the people around me, we always hear that people are different, but i always wanted to know how and to what extent? i enjoy this

things just pass by me, they are neutral !! at start,, but when you think about them again,,  you see them different !! or you just started seeing them !!

sometimes i feel that i reacted right, but after thinking i found many other right reactions.. why this not that ? which one is the best!!

i don know + i think = i know, perhaps yes perhaps no

but at least i satisfy myself by trying to thin|< .

we always create thoughts depending on things happened or things that should happen but they didn’t..

So, regardless how important they are ,, but things around us shape, change and restructure our minds and personalities as long as we respond to them.

some generalize those things and others over simplify. but it doesn’t matter,

thoughts, ideas, feelings, believes are always because of us and we are the ones who squeezed them into our minds.

rethink about them, filter some, change some, will makes you feel better..

Just Think about Things around you !!

( all interested mac users watched it live through iChat )

Summarizing the main points from the conference which is just ended.

MacBook & MacBook Pro

The 13″ MacBook is now called a MacBook Pro. Starts at $1,199. Cheaper than the MacBook it replaces. Ranges from $1,199 to $1,499 in standard configurations

The 13″ MacBook Pro is also available today

Updating the 13″ MacBook today as well. Gets the new display, SD card slot and ((better battery life )).

New battery, lasts up to 7 hours. Typical user will get 5 years of use before seeing diminished battery life. Most customers will never need to replace the battery. When it does need to be replaced, recycling options available at Apple stores. Amaaazing better than the current battery  WoW

Snow Leopard

Many Great New Features

Snow Leopard will be available for all Intel Macs — past and present. How should it be priced? Leopard was $129 and they want all Leopard users to upgrade to Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard will be $29 for those users. That means around 100 SR ,,

iPhone New OS 3.0

100 new features.

Cut/copy/paste/undo (works across all apps), landscape mode in Mail/Notes/Messages, MMS support (send and receive photos/contacts/audio files/locations) , search (mail — even on server, calendars, media, notes), spotlight (search everything in one place — first page of the home screen)

If your phone really is lost or stolen, you can send it a remote wipe command that will delete all of your data (mail, contacts, etc). If you do find the phone, it will be restored from a backup.

Lets you send your phone a message — a special alert sound will play, regardless if your phone is on silent or not.

iPhone OS 3.0 will be available for free to all iPhone users :D:D  i Love Apple .

iPhone 3GS (The New iPhone )

The insides are entirely new, but the outside appears the same.

Supports OpenGL|ES 2.0 — great for games. Supports 7.2Mbps HSPDA

2.1x faster to launch Messages, 2.4x to load SimCity, 3.6x faster to load an Excel attachment, 2.9x faster to load a large website.

brand new camera.

All what I can say,,,, I’m glad to be a Mac user .. (L)

Deaths: Global total of 61 — 56 in Mexico; three in the U.S.; one in Canada and one in Costa Rica. One of those who died in the U.S. was a toddler from Mexico. Officials said the Canadian, U.S. and Costa Rican victims also had other medical conditions.

Confirmed cases, according to WHO and CDC: About 4,800 in 33 countries, including at least 1,626 in Mexico, 2,618 in the United States and 330 in Canada.

A study published in the journal Science estimates that Mexico may actually have had 6,000 to 32,000 cases. The study estimates that between 0.4 percent and 1.4 percent of swine flu cases are fatal.

Many of us are going to travel abroad in the coming summer vacation, So here is a useful page that gives information about swine flu

wish you all the well-being

The rumors said that this is a screenshot taken from the next iPhone generation in china(since it will be manufactured there). The chinese site who posted this have been a common source of early photos of recent Apple releases including the unibody MacBook and MacBook Pro casings.

600MHz CPU Speed (up from 400MHz)
256MB RAM (up from 128MB)
Digital Compass and FM
3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus
32GB size
No major changes in battery, screen and external casing

Source: MacRumors

My Comment:

I think this is very possible that the new iphone will be faster, has larger capacity and better camera. It will be a disappointment if they decided not to improve the battery. Generally, I’m looking forward to the coming month when the new iphone will be released (as rumored).

How is the macintosh ?

I’v been through this question so many times, whenever i sit with a win user in front of my computer !

So really, why to go macintosh and throw-out all windows crap away ?

you may think that my opinion is biased, which is true:), but why i became biased for mac?

let me start with the consumer Loyalty Ladder for a company:

The Stranger -> The Suspect -> The Prospect -> The Customer -> The Client -> The Advocate (here I am)

again, why i become an advocate consumer for Apple ?

My first laptop was a Sony VAIO, a nice experience, and I was very close to repeat it again but sadly, Sony headed for the cheap quality manufacturing parts and labor. So i decided to take a Toshiba Qosmio. It was fine, as a multimedia heavy weight laptop, but still i didn’t reached the top satisfactory level with laptops. And again, it is the time to change my laptop for the third time.!

Before this, I (وهقت) my close friend Zaid(since his scales to evaluate things are almost as mine.), and convinced him to by a macbook pro, LoL, 

After that, a bought my MAC and started my addicting journey.

BREAK: The fastest Windows Vista notebook 2007, guess what ?

WHAT NEXT?

The Apple Macbook can run windows and os x operating systems at the same time, so i decided to have both until i get used to the osx. It was only one month the time that windows spent in my machine !!! i removed it with a big smile on my face ..

again, why!!!

this time i’ll answer enshallah ,, 

1- while working on the osx, the laptop battery can go up to 4 hrs!! really

2- there is always a better replacement for the windows applications (except arabic office, you may face some styling problems with files created with arabic windows office edition). 

3- since i bought my laptop until now, i formated it only once and that was because traveling abroad issue (i have some cracked apps lol ) on the other hand, when i was windows, i used to format my laptop every month !! because of slowness!!

4- the support for apple is amazing, as an example, every time my white keyboard has yellow stains on it, they change it for free (three times) and once,  they changed the bottom case  because it had small crack i didn’t even noticed it !!!

5- you feel the elegance while using the osx, i forgot the word ANTI VIROS !!

6- some great features that makes you wonder, how it can be that fast even with this animations and graphics transitions! 4ex: when i point the mouse pointer to the left top corner, it brings all my open boxes in a smooth way 

7- updates are always available, and easy to download. not as the junk windows updates center !!

8- only few of the programs need to be installed, many of them you just open them as you open a picture !

9-10-11,,, etc ,,, you will see in the coming topics 

so, I conclude my topic with two says:

WHEN YOU GO MAC, YOU WILL NEVER GO BACK

AN APPLE A DAY, KEEPS WINDOWS AWAY

Once upon a time there was a man, he used to drink medium sugared coffee before he starts his day. Later on, he decided to change this habit, so he decided to replace it with a juice. By the time passing, the morning juice seemed to be an improper replacement. Drinking the hot coffee gives a special feeling, when you take the first sip and swallow it, you feel the warmth passing throw your cold pharynx. So, the man decided to go to another replacement, which was the hot chocolate and it works well . happily ever after

مثلا… في درج البيت الدرجه الثالثه دايم انطها .. كذا تعودت بدون سبب

    Here I am ,, Bassam ,, I think that’s enough for now. i’ll catch you later my blog .

sincerely yours..