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What’s a retail employee worth to Apple? | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

 

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What\’s a retail employee worth to Apple? | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog. As the article says “each Apple retail employee is probably worth more than half a million dollars to Apple.” Yet Apple only pays retail wages. Perhaps Apple should be considered the Wall Street of computer support. Buy low, sell high.

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OS X Lion accepts any LDAP password, creates enterprise network nightmare | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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OS X Lion accepts any LDAP password, creates enterprise network nightmare | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog. So I wonder if this happens in Apple Open Directory hosted environments as well? That would be a death-blow to using Mac in enterprise environments. Sometimes with things like this, you just get the feeling that Apple isn’t doing any quality control in enterprise setups.

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Is the MacBook Air an innovative design?

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Up in the Air | Laptops | Macworld. Yes. This is a mostly complimentary article about Air’s and why people who have them seem to love them. Surprisingly most people seem ok with giving up their CD/DVD disks. I always thought that the people who have invested in software or movies would resist buying a device that didn’t support them built-in, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.

 

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Mac 101: OS X Lion’s new window resizing features | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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Mac 101: OS X Lion’s new window resizing features | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog. I just tested this out and this is a great time saver. Rather than using one place at the lower right to resize, you can do it on any edge of a window. Nice touch!

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