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Christmas in April, Part II

We began discussing what an interesting month April has been in Christmas in April, Part I. Now we’ll get into what’s happening with Apple.

Apple kicked off the month with the official release of the iPad. I personally think the device is a huge deal. I can definitely see where it would fit in with my day to day activities.

Then this week, the released the long awaited MacBook Pro. As I said in the previous article, I’ve been holding out for this machine for a long time, and I’m super excited to get one. Continue reading →

by Michael

Christmas in April, Part I

This is a pretty exciting month for the tools we use in our business, and technology in general. Monday, Adobe annouced CS5 and Microsoft finalized Visual Studio 2010. Last week Apple released the iPad, and this week it released the new Core i5 & Core i7 MacBook Pros.

For me, it is beyond time to upgrade my systems, so this is about to be a very expensive month. I’ve literally been waiting on these new MacBook Pros for two years, ever since I read about these new processors from Intel. And with this new computer, it is also time to upgrade the Adobe software, so this year’s tech budget is pretty much gone.

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