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Powerbook 12": The Upgrade

By Daniel Appelquist on July 14th, 2007

The hard drive on my Powerbook was giving up the ghost. First, it started making a high-pitched squeal. Then it started “sticking” intermittently – the machine would just hang there until I gave it a bit of a shake – very unsettling. Finally it just refused to boot. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. Three weeks [...]

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I'm an American Ex-Pat living in London. I'm a father of two and husband of one. I work for BlueVia (a unit of Telefónica Digital) where I head up Product Management. I founded Mobile Monday London, Over the Air and the Mobile 2.0 conference series. I am an advocate for the open Web and for Web Standards.

The opinions expressed here are my own, however, and neither Telefónica nor any other party necessarily agrees with them.

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