With software synthesizers, the Mac can mimic anything from a vintage analog synthesizer to a grand piano to a cello.
Music, movies and e-books that parents or kids have previously purchased on a PC or Mac can also be easily transferred to the MEEP!
Buffett says it's unlikely right now that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can raise the money they need to keep operating from private investors.
What McDonalds is saying is that if I want a Big Mac I can just do it myself.
Hot diggity, pink Zune on a Mac, can you get any more esoteric?
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The Mac uses only plug-in memory modules, its operating system automatically recognizes all the memory present, and all Mac software can share it.
While the company already has software for the Mac that can be downloaded online, Mr. Libin said the app format will be much easier for consumers to get.
While the update isn't available over-the-air, PC users may snag the latest OS with Sony's PC Companion, whereas Mac users can do the same with the Bridge application.
With Logitech Alert Commander for Mac you can view live and recorded video from your cameras in HD resolution, and back up recorded video from your cameras to your Mac.
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The smooth-talking Brit who gave us the sleek designs of the iPod, iPhone and Mac computers can, from now, be referred to as Sir Jonathan Ive, or perhaps if he prefers, Sir Jony.
Another drawback: While other Android phones I've tested can be plugged into either a PC or a Mac so you can manually transfer files onto them, I couldn't get the Note to do this with either of two Macs I tested with it.
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The Yandex browser supports Windows and Mac OS and can be downloaded at browser.yandex.ru, browser.yandex.com.
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Microprocessors in your PC, Mac or BlackBerry can pack more than 1, 000 transistors into a space the width of a human hair.
In general on the Mac, you can zoom in on any screen that's hard to see by pressing Command and Option and the equal sign key simultaneously.
When you save a Word file in your Google Drive folder on a PC or a Mac, you can access that file on the Google Drive website but when you click on it online, it opens in Google Docs.
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If you're absolutely certain you're going to run only text-based word processors or spreadsheets on an IBM-compatible, or simple word processors and spreadsheets on a Mac, you can settle for a basic box with one megabyte of memory and a 40-megabyte hard drive.
Once you've installed these "virtual" machines on your Mac, you can for the most part install PC applications on the virtual machine as though it were a real PC--though few software vendors will actually help you out running their software in an emulated environment.
Heck -- even Apple, the most famously-closed ecosystem in the entire technology industry, decouples hardware from software insomuch that Macs are released on a timetable completely unrelated to that of Mac OS and can be upgraded -- at a cost -- for many years, at the owner's leisure.
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And Mac and PC users can e-mail each other all day long without encountering any hassles.
Open the app store on the Mac, and you can look through different categories of apps and pick out one you want.
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Instead of fat and carb laden mac and cheese, can you give me something that replaces the carb with something much better?
Christensen however questioned whether the iPad is really disruptive of the Mac, because if the margins are attractive to both the iPad and the Mac, then they can manage it as a sustaining innovation.
On the one hand, he noted that Microsoft has a long history of providing cross-platform applications. (You can run Office on the Mac, for instance.) And he also noted that you can run the limited function Web-based version of Office in a browser on basically any device at all, including iPads and iPhones, to read documents and do some light editing.
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One person can watch and record TV on a Mac, and at the same time a second person can watch and record a different channel on a PC.
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RackMac mini Xserver can expand a Mac mini's potential uses in many other ways.
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Rather than unveil a Velveeta Mac, Jobs thinks he can do a better job than experienced retailers at moving the beluga.
Available in three different configurations, customers can choose a Mac mini with the latest dual-core Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 processors, AMD Radeon HD 6630M discrete graphics, or a quad-core Intel Core i7 powered server configuration.
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Install Virtual PC on a Mac running either Mac OS9 or Mac OS X and, odd as this may seem, you can then actually run Windows on that Mac.
So, the real question is can Apple leave the Mac behind, yet still port its brand power over to the new era?
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