APPLE'S MACBOOK PRO 13 REFRESH

If you're out in the market for a new computer, but would like to purchase a MacBook Pro 13", now is NOT the time to buy as it is almost time for Apple to refresh their MacBook Pro line up. Its been 8 months since Apple's MacBook Pro refresh. So if youre looking for possible updates, here they are:
- NO MORE INTEL CORE 2 DUO; intel core i3 for entry model MBP 13
- Updated GPU's
- firewire 400 ports back (please)
- possible battery life update (for bad or for good)

I was personally disappointed when Apple stayed with the VERY oudated intel core 2 duo CPU's, which leads me to the first possible update, the intel core i3 chip for their entry model MacBook Pro 13. Apple's MacBook Pro 13 and the MacBook White are two very similar products. There is just a fine line seperating the two products which is not sufficient in the eyes of the consumer/customer.

The next possible update is their GPU's. The graphics is fine right now, but we need to see better preformance.

The third possible update would be the possible return of the oh so famous, firewire 400 port as many of us need for camcorders or external hard drives that need firewire 400. The disappointment in customer and or consumer rises with each refresh.

I mentioned earlier that the MacBook Pro 13 will finally get the power it deserves with the intel core i3 chip but because of this, the battery life may be decreased significantly. This leads to another thought; Apple may just want to reserve the i3/i5/i7 chips for the higher end computers for sheer power/preformance, and leave the MacBook Pro with a "new" update with 2.66 ghz as its entry model, and 3.06 ghz with the higher end MacBook Pro 13. But still leaving it behind with the Intel Core 2 duo chips.

Will Apple listen to their customers and or consumers for greater power and better preformance? Or will Apple ignore their customers and or consumers and continue with what they believe will be best for the consumer or customers? We will find out in just a few weeks in the keynote with Mr. Steve Jobs.

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APPLE MACBOOK PRO UPDATES

Its been 8 months since apple's macbook pros got their update, and in about a month or so, Apple's macbook pros will get its update on its processor, HDD, graphics and the screen realestate.

Apple's macbook pros currently have intel core 2 duo, which is seriously out of date, and its about time the 13 inch macbook pros DESERVE the "pro" title. The graphics need to also be updated a little, but with respect to the macbook pro's screen realestate.

I'm unsure that apple will update its HDD as it is large enough, and with $50 more, you can purchase a larger HDD. Or you can purchase one at Fry's. The current size of the HDD in the base model macbook pro (13) is 250 GB. So i dont think that apple will update its HDD.

The screen realestate will probably be a no because it hasnt been updated (when it SHOULD be).

That's all for now, and keep checking in on here and apple.com for the latest updates and news

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LG ALLY TIPS AND TRICKS

Do you have an LG Ally, and is sick of its lag? Well you dont need to be irritated anymore because you can download the application called LauncherPro free at the Market place. Its an orange square application with a black house in it.

This application is marvilous because it provides smooth scrolling, and great features that allows you to set the home screen, behavior, dock settings and much more.

Using this application for about 2 hours, ive noticed a HUGE improvement in overall PREFORMANCE. Do NOT use live wallpaper for this application as you will notice the lag. Just using a simple wallpaper will be suffiecient. Im pretty sure i spelled that word wrong but thats ok. Haha.

Go to your marketplace application right now and download Laucher Pro and also, just for fun, find a Nexus Rev. Application in your market place today. =)

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LG ALLY RENAMED LG PROBE DUE TO ITS PROBLIMATIC AREAS

A local in beaverton, oregon states that LG's first android, then Ally should be properly renamed the LG Probe due to the user's numerous encounters with its problimatic areas.

The Ally seemed to be a decent phone, but the last decent phones I've used in the past 6 years have been just that; decent. "The Ally comes short on decent. In fact, the phone is so problimatic, it shouldn't even be CONSIDERED 'decent' thats how poorly designed it was" says a local teenager whose had his Ally for 3 months now. "Nothing But trouble" says another local from the Portland Metro area. "This Phone may be pretty, but you may need to ask yourself again before you shell out $150 for a phone. Some might say you get a great keyboard, but if that's the only 'great' feature about the phone, then I'm better off spending an extra $20 for LG's Vortex."

What do you consider as a consumer when youre out phone shopping again? I personally consider how well the phone actually functions rather than the way it looks. But because of the fancier, nicer, "cooler" looking smart phones and PDA's out on the market with winmo, apple or android OS, the consumers seem to care little about how well the product actually functions until they actually purchase and testdrive the product for a few days.

A lot of people are looking into smart phones these days for email, text or even yes, video chatting with relatives over the holidays. Some local nerds and geeks predict that the home computer may be very soon obsolite as phones become more and more advanced. People dont just use phones to make phone calls anymore. Many people use their smart phones such as blackberries, winmo, iphone, or android phones to watch and upload vids to youtube, send and print photos, sync music with their apple tv, and more. A phone nowadays can do much more than just make a call. And the LG Ally is not short of THAT.

Would i recommend this phone still? Yes if they dont mind a fe glitches here and there.

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TIPS AND TRICKS FOR LG'S ALLY AND OTHER ANDROIDS

Did you ever figure out how to make your phone vibrate when you get a text message or email? Well, in any other... basic phone, you can go into the settings or press and hold the key on the dial pad and it will set to vibrate mode. The LG Ally (or any other android phone is very different, but to set the the phone to vibrate whenever to get a text or email is all the same.

-How Set The Vibrate-To-Text Mode On Your Android Device-
By the "vibrate-to-txt", I mean setting the settings/preferences to whenever you receive a text or email, it vibrates.

1. Wake/power on your android device
2. Touch the messaging "folder"
3. Once the messaging "folder" is open, hit the menu key and scroll to the very bottom. That is where you can set the vibration thingy. :D

See? 3 easy steps. I had to do some digging around to get this information, as it is not in the hand book... or so I think.

If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email at TheAsianAppleGod@gmail.com! Thanks!

Apple iPod Touch 2nd Generation

It seems to me that the all might apple inc. Has a problem with their ipod touch. As if that were anything new, right? The iPod touch has always been my choice ipod whenever going anywhere. But because of some... Many... Technical issues surrounding the iPod touch, it may not be the choice iPod for consumers.

You're going to blow $230 on an iPod. If you're smart, you're going to purchase a case for your device. But wait, what's the point in having a case if the case is going to scratch your device? Well, that's where Zagg comes in! Zagg is a company in which they specialize in making "cases" for any mobile device known to man. Well, almost all mobile devices. Some would include the famous cell phone and ipod craze, laptop computers, digital cameras and more!

Say you buy an iPod touch, an iSkin case, and a zagg case thing. The iPod alone will cost you $230, both cases will cost you $30 each. In the end, youre spending $290 on a product that will last you a little over a year, and SOMETHING will go wrong with your device. Things such as the headphone jack not working properly, the display might become "bent" and then cracked, you will get a dead pixel right in the middle of your beautiful "Retina Display" too! Many many technical issues surrounding the device that Apple Inc. Has not yet taken care of!

Say you want an iPod Nano (the newest generation with the touch screen). Sure. The device is amazing and gorgeous! But what's the point in having an "iPod touch mini"? Sure its cute looking, but I kinda miss being able to play games on the nano.

Or maybe you have a shit load of songs that you listen to. So you purchase the iPod classic with 120 GB of flash memory. Cool. Just enough space to add your library of 10 million songs from every single artist on itunes and from other countries. Great. But you will still need to purchase a case (as most people do). But it does not matter when you purchase the case. Because you are still spending money added to your device.

Ex: you purchase an ipod classic. A month later you buy full protection case from zagg. A week later you add an outer case for your device. Say your ipod classic costs you $300. And both cases total in $60. Doesn't that sound a bit pricey?

The best way of how to manage your money is to purchase everything in cash. When you lay those $20's out on the counter, you're going to want to pull back, like that time jillian did when she found out that bryan griffen didnt want to move in with her. She dumped him. Poor dog.

But anyways, you will have a lot of problems with iPod devices. Esp the iPod touch. So be wise when purchasing an iPod. Buy with cash.

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LG ALLY REVIEW PROS AND CONS

BLG comes out with the new LG Ally. AKA the iron man 2 phone! The LG ally features a bright 3.2 inch, 400x800 capacitive touch screen display. Below the display, we have the two capacitive touch back and search buttons. For the physical buttons, we have the call receive, home, menu and the call end button. The call end button also functions as the sleep/wake and power on/off switch. When we slide out the keyboard, we have the back and search buttons on the left side just above the alt and shift keys. And the home and menu keys are where the send and end buttons would be on the right side of the slide out board.

The keyboard is very nice and very well designed. My first impression was none other than "oh my goodness". I thought I would have issues adjusting from the lg voyager's keyboard to the ally's keyboard. If you take a closer look, you will notice that the keys are very different. Instead of having two space buttons on either side of the keyboard, the space bar is conventional. Meaning that the keyboard you would find on the ally is the same on the us keyboard. Of course, the "alt" keys will be different, but the space bar will be in the middle (as people prefer it that way). I personally liked to use the voyager's keyboard better.

The lg ally is also not the fastest "snap dragon" droid, but it's decent. Its not something you will use to consistantly download movies or for the heavy user. No. The lg ally is just a decent phone for the "decent" user. If you are looking for a phone with an android os, but are not willing to spend more than $50, the lg ally is the phone for you... that is if you don't mind having a somewhat slow or laggy phone. But once you got the phone going, the laggieness stops.

By lagginess, I mean when you slide the phone open to use the QWERTY keyboard. The phone will take a little bit to realize what its got to do, but that's ok. It won't kill you unless you consistently need a phone to realize it as soon as you slide it open or whatever. Ok. That wasn't professional, but who cares right? I'm a 17 year old hs student who is bored and is at a local winco's on a... Tuesday night. Whatever.

The overal design of this phone is amazing. Amazing keyboard, amazing display, nice features and affordable. But what makes the lg ally not attractive? Because of the fact that the lg ally is portrayed with iron man, the phone is thought to be fast and powerful. But it isn't. In reality, its just another decent phone. Marketing right? That's how they get you. But that's ok too. Another thing wrong with this phone is the battery life. It doesn't have the best battery ever... oh wait, yes it does!! Its because I'm a heavy user on this phone. Hahaha. Plus I download lots of apps so that may lead to the weak battery.

Ratings
Design: 4
Preformance: 3
Daily use: 5
Overall score: 12 out of 15
Would I recommend this phone? Depends on the user. If you need a fast phone, and if you hate lag of any kind... the ally is not the phone for you. If you don't mind some lag, and you want a decent android os phone for a decent price of $50 (after $100 mail in rebate), then yes. The ally is for you!

LEDGlow

I recently got the Million Color LED Underbody Kit by LEDGlow.

The kit itself is amazing. Bright lights, nice colors, like the sound activated feature as well. The installation was pretty much easy... pretty much. If you're the typical perfectionist, the difficulty of installation will vary as vehicles vary. But if we're talking about the actual installation on our truck, then on a scale of 1-10 (1 being easy and 10 being extremely difficult), I'd give the kit an overal 7.5/8.

Installation Pros and Cons
- Pros -
Figuring out where to put the light bars were easy

- Cons -
Wiring was very tedious. I'm a perfectionist and I wanted to make sure this kit looks professionally installed. Pushing the wires and figuring out where the wires should NOT go was very difficult. Especially in the front. It was difficult to get it through a hole in the sides of the doors. Setting up the control box was relatively easy. Not too bad, but it still required a lot of attention and questioning.

The battery disappointed me very much. They sent a dead, corroded A27/27A battery in the remote. I had to travel to 6 locations BEFORE finding a Batteries Plus in Beaverton, OR on Canyon Rd. VERY annoying!!

Product Score 1-5 (1 being the worst - 5 being the best) 4/5.

Lights were great. Was not expecting the installation to be EASY. So Duh. The battery was the disappointing part. Very aggravating.

The New MacBook Air

Apple launched their new MacBook Air very recently.

Their new Air has the 11 and 13 inch models and they start at $999!

The new MacBook Air's specs

1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache; or optional 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB shared L2 cache, 800MHz frontside bus and 2GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM onboard (4GB maximum)

NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors and a FaceTime camera

Stereo speakers, Omnidirectional microphone, headphone mini jack and Support for Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic

Apple Event Sept 1st 2010

According to Dave also known as Lack78 on Youtube, Apple is holding an event on September 1st in San francisco, California. He also stated of rumors going around about Apple's possible new iPod line-up, "Death to click-wheel iPods" and the Apple TV which will possibly be renamed "iTV".

I personally do not believe that everyone should get over worked and overly excited about what might be. By that, I mean the iPod Touch. I wouldn't hold my breath for a FRONT FACING CAMERA ON AN iPOD TOUCH. I don't think Apple will do that. BUT that's just my opinion.

Some of you are wondering: "Why has Apple put cameras on the iPod Nano but not the iPod Touch?"

Answer: Because Apple's iPod Nano were losing sales, so Apple decided to implement a camera onto the iPod Nano.

BECAUSE the iPod Nanos were losing sales, I do not believe Apple will implement the front facing camera onto the iPod Touch.

More on that later.

iPhone 4 Antenna Fail!

iPhone 4 was said that it was Apple's (quote) "... most successful product in Apple's History". What the consumers didn't realize was that they're purchasing a product that had (quote) "reception problems". Apple claims that their iPhone 4 was displaying bars that (quote) "were never real in the first place". Apple also claims that their iPhone was (quote) "... mistakingly displaying 2 more bars then it should for a given signal strength". In other words, if the device displays 4 bars, you really have 2.

"... gripping almost any mobile phone in certain ways will reduce its reception by 1 or more bars". Apple points out that other major phone manufacturers also have that very same issue. "But some users have reported that iPhone 4 can drop 4 or 5 bars when tightly held in a way which covers the black strip in the lower left corner of the metal band. This is a far bigger drop than normal, and as a result some have accused the iPhone 4 of having a faulty antenna design". What the F***? Sounds like Apple is trying to pin the blame on the consumer for the reception issues.

It's not the iPhone 4 itself people. Apple claims that the users of the iPhone 4's (quote) "most likely are in an area with a weak signal strength, but they don't know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars". What does this mean? It's not the iPhone itself. Its the area the user is in (duh). So move! But if you're living in an area that isn't covered well just yet... move anyways if you want better reception.

Sony MDR-NC60 Noise Canceling Headphone Review

I purchased a nice pair of Sony MDRNC60's last month and I'm quite pleased with their sound clarity. I do not like the price of course. It wears nicely and looks nice but it does get tiring after a couple of hours.

Pros:

- Very stylish

- Nice Piano Black

- Sound Clarity

- Sound Isolating

- Comfort

- Detachable cord

Cons:

- Do get tiring after a while

- Not recommended in a car (even if you're not driving; as people open/close doors, you hear a deep "rattle" if the digital cancelation feature is on)

- Price

- Not enough Bass

- Does not FOLD

These pair of headphones are really nice, but I'd honestly have to give it a 3.9/5

They're good for tuning out your mom or wife if and when she gets annoying... you should just listen to her. She's usually right about things.. if you did as she asked, she wouldn't be yelling at you. Think about THAT for a moment.

Anyways, good-ish headphones.

BIG QUESTION: WOULD I RECOMMEND THESE TO A FRIEND???

If you're not a heavy listener, then maybe. Other then that... NO!!! Just buy In-ear-earphones by SkullCandy. You get BETTER SOUND AND DEEPER BASS FOR $20!!! NOT $200 FOR SONY MDR-NC60!!!

MacBook Pro 13 15 and 17

The new MacBook Pro 13, 15 and 17 inch models now feature powerful processors that make anything that much simpler.

The new MBP 13 inch model features:

- 2.4 Ghz or 2.66 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Processors

- Standard 250 GB HDD

- 4GB Random Access Memory (RAM)

- 10 Hour Battery Life

- SD Card Slot

- NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

(weighing in at 4.5 pounds)

The new MBP 15 inch model features:

- 2.4 Ghz, 2.53 Ghz, 2.66 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo or Intel Core i7 Processor

- 4GB RAM

- Standard 320 GB HDD

- Optional 1680x1050 Resolution Glossy or Anti-Glare Display (almost HD)

- 8-9 Hour Battery Life

- NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz configurations; or 512MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.66GHz configuration

- Intel HD Graphics with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

- Automatic graphics switching

(weighing in at 5.6 pounds)

The new MBP17 inch model features:

- 2.53 Ghz Intel Core i5 or 2.66 Ghz Intel Core i7

- 4GB RAM

- Standard 500GB HDD

- 1920x1200 Resolution Widescreen Display

- 8-9 Hour Battery Life

- NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory

- Intel HD Graphics with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

- Automatic graphics switching

(weighing in at 6.6 pounds)

The new MacBOOK features:

- 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor

- 2GB RAM

- Standard 250GB HDD

- Updated Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

(weighing in at 4.7 pounds)