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Apple Store Back — Pre-Order Your iPad Now

The Apple store is back online, US customers can pre-order up to two iPads each for April 3 delivery.
Updates on what else is new on the store to come.

Apple Store Down: Pre-iPad Sales Prep or Something Else?

The Apple store went down at 11:01AM GMT. We'll post an update when it's back online. If our crystal ball readings from the past are reliable, when it goes back on line, you could be the first to pre-order an iPad.
In the mean time, wild speculation abounds — since it looks like Apple stores worldwide [...:]

Vers 1.5R Clock Radio Dock, Smooth-Sounding Vixen In A Black Dress [Review]

There must be a special space reserved at the table in Valhalla for any designer able to make a fat brick look hot; if that's true, then there's a seat reserved right next to Jonny Ive's for the Vers 1.5R's designer (and yes, both design heaven and design hell are Scandinavian. Don't believe me? Take [...:]

iPad Pre-Orders Start 5.30AM PST on Friday, Says Apple PR [Updated]

Update: Reader Bob Penn says the staff at his local Apple store insists that pre-orders begin at midnight. I for one will be staying up until the witching hour just to see.
Pre-oders for the iPad start at 5.30 AM PST on Friday March 12, Apple PR told TUAW. That's 8.30 AM for East Coasters.
Better set your [...:]

iPad Pre-Orders Start 5.30AM PST on Friday, Says Apple PR

Pre-oders for the iPad start at 5.30 AM PST on Friday March 12, Apple PR told TUAW. That's 8.30 AM for East Coasters.
Better set your alarm clocks.
All models of the iPad will be available for pre-order, but only the Wi-Fi model will ship on April 3. The 3G model won't be available until late April.

Watch "Welcome to MacIntosh" Documentary For Free Online

At long last, the Welcome to MacIntosh documentary (which we've mentioned here a few times) is now available to watch online, for free. .

Welcome to MacIntosh includes guest appearances by pretty much every well-known Mac nerd you can think of (including our own cuddly Leander Kahney).
Official blurb: "Filmmakers Josh Rizzo and Rob Baca trace the [...:]

Screaming Fast New MacBook Pros and Mac Pro Desktops Next Week? [UPDATE: Maybe No MacBooks]

UPDATE: Seth at 9to5Mac is now backtracking. While he says he's received multiple tips that Mac Pros will be updated, he thinks the MacBoo Pros tip might have been a fake. "Shame on us," he says.
Our friend Seth Weintraub at 9to5Mac thinks MacBooks and Mac Pros will be updated within a week. Seth received a [...:]

100 Tips #2: Understanding The Menu Bar

The Menu Bar sits at the top of your screen at all times. Let's take a moment to get to know it. It's worth doing, because the Menu Bar is going to be one of your best friends.
When you used Windows, you were used to see menus inside each document window. File, Edit, all [...:]

Daily Deals: Mac Pro Xeon, App Store Price Drops, Sharp AQUOS 65″ TV

We near the end of the week with a number of Mac-related deals. First up is a Mac Pro Quad-Core Xeon running at 2.66GHz for $2,149. Next up is a passel of newly reduced App Store items, including our favorite: "Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey." Finally, we wrap up our top trio with a 64-inch [...:]

Future Gas Powered Games, DICE titles will be available on OS X

As a Mac gamer, I thought the recent announcement of the Steam digital games delivery service coming to Mac was very exciting. Even if Steam never becomes as popular on the Mac as it is on the PC, it will bring us, at the very least, some great Valve titles like Team Fortress 2, Left [...:]