The portable ones of Apple are the mejorcito of the market.

Although in Colombia we usually “do not swallow point” with the surveys, we like knowing which are the tendencies in the opinion of the people to know if the candidate for whom we are going to vote is well valued or not; or in this case, if the portable computer that we are going to buy for Christmas justifies the expense that we are going to do.

In USA the company of investigation of Markets: SquareTrade has realized a study on satisfaction with portable computers and although it is obvious that every who speaks depending on his sad or happy experiences, is much orientador for those that they do not want to end "knocked down" for buying portable mistaken.

The study includes 30.000 buyers of portable (including the netbook) inside a frame of time of 3 years; time in which a portable one he is already considered to be “an old man“ and hence one presents that another infirmity.

MISTAKES, BAD FUNCTIONING AND ACCIDENTS.

Independently of the mark a portable one can see his useful life affected for the sum of diverse mistakes (Blue Line), malfuncionamiento of the hardware (Red Line) or accidents (Green Line) all this framed inside a space of 3 years from the moment of the buy of the portable one.

MALFUNCIONAMIENTO FOR MARKS.

(Explanatory note: The Mark Asus corresponds to a NetBook for which obviously his performance is not the same that a portable normal one and therefore is explained porqué it is the one that better him has gone).

In contrast to the first graph in which there were adding the technical flaws more the accidents and the bad manipulation of the people, in this second graph, there are observed only the problems of hardware or software that there presents a portable one (that is what it imports for any buyer).
The blue bars show how the portable ones behave after 2 years and the red bars show how they behave after 3 years.

If we observe carefully the marks that more fail they are those who curiously sell more portable bargain sales in Colombia. Anyone would think that it is a marks matter, but it is not like that since if we find out the majority they use the same components and materials, which shows up that this is the reason of the porqué they present more flaws. Simply for the quality of the materials of the hardware is there the reason of which they are portable economic.

CONCLUSION.

How one saw in the explanatory note Asus it does not tell because it corresponds to a Netbook, which leaves Toshiba, Sony and Apple as 3 marks that better they was, obviously also they presented mistakes but they were not so many people like the percentage that Acer, Gateway and HP present. to what does this owe?, again it is observed that it is for the quality of the materials, if in Colombia we complain that the portable ones of Apple are expensive it is because a present reality is not analyzed in the computers that sell here in the country and in the entire world; and the fact is that an Apple computer in spite of being expensive, lasts a lot of more time than an economic computer and not desactualiza so rapid, which in the long run is a money saving, because if we were analyzing all the silver a person would spend with a portable bargain sale in these 3 years in updates of hardware, cleanlinesses of virus and the repairs. in this time space it has spent the same that an Apple portable one costs.

As many people were saying to the beginning not “he eats story”, but if we observe impartially everything what shows this study we realize that the people do not choose a portable one of Apple for nice (because those of other marks also it are) not for fashion, but because he buys something that in fact is worth while.

Linkage: 1 of every 3 Laptops they fail in 3 years for: SquareTrade

Apple gives the last farewell to Tiger

Apple announces officially that it stops offering support to Tiger, the company already will offer more neither updates nor compatible software; this MAC OSX that was thrown in 2005 and that was serving as springboard for the arrival of the processors Intel to the world Maquero; it has marked an important epoch for Apple and to shown the record of being the most successful and long-lived operating system of the company.

This operating system is still used by many people in his Power Mac, Power Book, Macbook, Macbook Pro and Imac with processors Power PC. Which puts in a big quandary the proprietors of many Mac who have enough years of use since it touches actualizarsen Leopard or they buy a more recent Mac since the new advances that have developed in Snow Leopard do that they are unviable of applying in a processor PPC, which traditionally did not want to be left by Apple given the big number of computers that even work with these processors.

If you use Tiger, tell us how he makes use of it in his daily works, it does all that uses it, that has brought experiences to him.

iShop it opens new shop in Bogota

(Image Courteousness: TechPeople)

iShop it opened a new shop in the city of Bogota in the Shopping center Unicentro to offer to him more buy alternatives to all the maqueros of the capital.
The thematic areas of the shop are clearly distributed so that we could cover it with serviceability, being quite coherent with the corporate strategy and the esthetics that they applied to the shop of Big Station, posicionándose little by little in different strategic sectors of the city.

If he wants to go to know the shop and that promotions offer 1 goes to C.C Unicentro Local - 184

Linkage: iShop

For all our readership …

The life gives you surprises, surprises it gives you Apple.

During the course of these days we have seen wonderingly as Apple is putting the letters on the table and is revealing little by little the surprises that it has reserved for 2010.

The company has announced an event for January 26 in which a new product Apple will be thrown, some say that it will be the new iPhone, others that it will be awaited Tablet. We can already do to ourselves an idea that this Apple “cooking something” so that his products are masificados at levels that it does greatly we believed unthinkable.

Will our Resellers Nacionales be prepared for what comes?, the answer is THEY HAVE, because if in 2009 we saw competition enough between them, 2010 promises to bring innovative products that will do that many people migrate towards the Apple and that better if this is stimulated by more promotions and attractive prices.

Hello iPad

Few minutes ago Apple has just proved to be his product most waited for many months, the iPad.
Basically the iPad might be summed up like a 10 inches iPhone but focused towards 2 specific markets as it can be that of the education due to the possibility of discharging, of reading and of sharing electronic books and of being able to use the application office computerization iWork. And for the market of the entertainment since there will be able to move the same games of App Store that is something that many players could not do comfortably for example in games like Need For Speed, The Sims, and Spore for the small screens of the iPhone and iPod Touch.

(Images Courteousness: engadget.com)
The iPad will come with a few services very similar to that of other mobile devices of Apple since it uses the same Operating system (iPhoneOS), which as it is obvious makes castrated the possibility of visualizing pages in Flash and the possibility of personalizing it; therefore probably as his small brothers also the iPad needs to be liberated by not legal methods like the JailBreak.

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS:

• Processor Apple 1Ghz.

• Screen 9.7 Inches, multitactile and anti fat.

• Hard disk Flash of 16, 32 and 64 GB.

• Acelerómetro, Compass and sensor of light ambience.

• Entry for Simcard and Earphones, microphone and built-in speakers.

• Battery with up to 10 hours of duration.

• Connectivity Bluetooth, WiFi and 3G

• Multiple accessories like cases, bases, casings and connectors for TV set and for cards SD

PRICES IN USA:

With the prices in which it will be sold from APPLECOL we imagine that in Colombia they will cost between 900.000 and 1.200.000 weight with the possibility of acquiring an information plan by means of Movistar and Comcel very similar to those of the iPhone. Nevertheless both companies will have to devise attractive plans, because in contrast to the iPhone, the iPad does not have permanence contract and this can cause that the people do not turn out to be already tied for so long contracts and simply be content with the connection WiFi.

From now on the Cellular Operators and our Resellers Colombianos will have to create good strategies to attract iPad buyers, because from May this portable device is going to turn into the most coveted and it it will be even more during the Christmas epoch of 2010 in Colombia and the rest of the world.

With the hands in the iPad

As it happens with the iPhone and the iPod Touch a thing is to see the functioning of these devices in the nice videos of the page of Apple and other one sees his real functioning, that's why the page TechCrunch.com quizo sharing the following video to see as the iPad behaves in the hands of a common user.

Linkage: Youtube

The iPad in detail

In our previous post we show them a video of as the iPad works, in this occasion the Engadget people they have done an a little more extensive video of the functioning of the new creation of Apple.

Linkage: Engadget

The geniuses behind the iPad

Thanks to our reader Juan_Da it has warned us about the video in Spanish of the creation of the hand iPad of the team of design, marketing and software of Apple.

Linkage: YouTube

The bad of the iPad

I do not write for Applecol from several months. The truth is that time reasons me it prevent. First of all the boom that caused the exit of the iPad and quite what has been said, have to write is brought in of opinion.
For many years one speak about a tablet done by Apple, an iTablet. There were many tracks that were indicating that the entry to the market of this product, months question was alone. Important journalists and bloggers they were anticipated and began giving technical specifications of what would be the new Apple invention. Size of the screen, processor, operating and enclosed system, prices. In the end the majority they turned out to be wrong and Jobs left with his.

As faithful user Macintosh for approximately ten years, I must say that the iPad does not convince me. Perhaps he was waiting much more, that usually happens. What surprises me is that Apple always overcomes our expectations or at least mine, and this product did not do it.
After seeing the whole stream of the Keynote of Steve Jobs, the first impression that I have left was that the iPad is an iPod giant Touch. I was imagining it to myself covering a modified version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard where one had the dock, files and folders as well as in a Mac. That light applications for Mac, could execute in the iPad. I never went so far as to think that it would be almost the same one YOU of the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Another thing that made me bored with the iPad is that it does not bring camera. Nowadays up to the most basic cell phone it brings one, and quite I imagined less that it separates this one it did not have it. What happened to them? Do I forget them? I am sure that the future versions of the iPad will bring one.

The third reason for which the iPad did not convince me completely, is for his screen. The following thing there is going to be a translation of this entry of TUAW. It turns out that his dimensions are of 1024×768 pixels, in a proportion of 4:3. Our TV sets you take shape and LCDs has a proportion of 16:19. That is to say that to see a movie in way widescreen would give us black bars above and below of the GREEN lines in the graph.
To see a movie that is not widescreen, would give us black bars above and below of the BLUE lines in the graph. Most of movies filmed in way widescreen, that is to say, those of proportion 2:35:1, might only be seen in the RED area of the graph. Even worse, videos cannot be seen in the highest definition 1080p because simply the pixels do not reach.
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Pantalla iPad. Primera Popuesta. Original de TUAW.

Pantalla iPad. Segunda propuesta. Original de TUAW.

Para terminar, creo que se apresuraron en lanzar este producto al mercado. La prensa norteamericana le ha dado ‘palo’ al nombre iPad y la verdad es que suena poco Apple. También se siente poco Apple en la manera como se ven los iconos en la pantalla del iPad. El fondo que viene por defecto, para mi es totalmente horrible.

10 Orders of the iPad

1. You will love Apple on all the things.
2. You will not compare the iPad in vain.
3. Chicanearas in the holidays.
4. You will be grateful to your father, mother or acquaintance who dared to give it to you.
5. You will not sell it in MercadoLibre.
6. You will not see videos porno flash in the iPad.
7. You will not steal your clients affirming that this is a Tablet.
8. You will not complain for the USB, to remain a blind person for reading books or the integrated camera.
9. You will not change it into a Tablet of the competition.
10. You will not covet the foreign Macbook.

Following the line of my partner editor totetolima, also I have come to give stick to the iPad, because the truth is necessary to be Francs, the device leaves a sweet and sour flavor to the Maqueros, that's why if you belong to those that it thinks to buy it to him now when they come in May to Colombia or for Christmas, he knows by that to abide because probably instead of a "Tablet" you prefer an iPhone or an iPod Touch.

Mistakes on the screen of the iMac, of which they are … they are

Since there went on sale the first lot of 27 and 21.5 inches iMacs they have circulated in Internet some complaints of the people with regard to the screen since some of them say that his screens have taken an aspect amarrilloso and/or colors lines appear. Although it is normal that in all the computer marks some defective units appear, in spite of making to cost the guarantee it is possible to ask for a change of team; nevertheless as informs the prestigious page Gizmodo.com they have discovered an internal memorandum of Apple in which they recognize this mistake and the worst thing the fact is that it orders his shops and Resellers that the "madmen" do to themselves in case the clients to protest under diverse pretexts not to make to cost the guarantee.

So if you are a happy owner of a 27 or 21.5 inches iMac and notice color changes on the screen or lines it makes to cost his guarantee as soon as possible.

Route: Gizmodo

Does Coca-Cola kill red wine?

The page specializing in technology digitimes.com has revealed that several Asian manufacturers are restating the prices of his netbooks (of those that can be bought in the Stores of Chain and San Andresitos) to do a hard competence in the iPad to him, because they see a threat to his market the appearance of this new electronic device, nevertheless I would dare to say that not only they are going to face it with price but they are going to make him see the people the big weakness of the iPad that is the fact of having no connectors usb.

This confirms that it is going to have our Ressellers Colombianos that ponersen the batteries to be able to focus well a market niche and attract clients of the iPad, because the people usually value enough the price versus the benefit and they are going to be very attentive to alternatives like an iPhone, an iPod Touch, a Macbook or even the same Netbooks.

Route: digitimes.com

Update for screens iMac 2009

As a few days ago we publish in Applecol that they have circulating in Internet complaints of the people on the screens of the new iMacs (2009), Apple it has thrown an update for the above mentioned screens which we imagine can be a solution to the above mentioned mistakes, nevertheless if you notice that his screen presents the same disadvantages it is better that it makes cost his guarantee and asks for a change of team.

Route: Applesfera