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Apple iPad Event To Be Streamed Live

Unlike it's iPhone event last month it appears that Apple is planning to stream the live event tonight, however, only if you have a Apple device. 

The keynote is expected to introduce the new iPad 5, iPad Mini with Retina display, new Macbook Pros, new Mac Pro and the latest iteration of Mac's OS, Mavericks.

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C Certainly Wasn't For Cheap

The 'unapologetically plastic' iPhone 5C was introduced by Apple last month, however before it's official launch there had been numerous leaks and rumours pontificating about how Apple was making a cheaper iPhone to make headway in China and other developing markets. The analysts were confident that this plastic offering would be more acceptable to these cash starved provinces and the result would be a wild stampede as these poorer citizens would snap up the latest wondrous offering Apple had created exclusively for them. 

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Short Sited Specs

I keep hearing comments such as '64-bit? Who needs that in a phone?' or 'My current phone does everything I need', or 'Why do you need all that power. Nothing uses it.'  For folks who are apparently interested in gadgets and technology I find these somewhat shortsighted opinions. If the tech world never pushed boundaries then where would we be? Would 5.25 floppies still be the media of the day? Would VHS machines still snuggle comfortably under our CRT TV screens? Would the ZX80 be the pinnacle of UK Computing?

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Welcome to Mac & Forth

Hello and welcome to Mac & Forth. Now I know what you are probably thinking, 'Oh look, another Apple fan site. Like there aren't enough of them on the Interweb already'.

Well yes, I'm afraid it's true. I have created this site due to my enjoyment of the products from that corporation in Cupertino, and I am aware Apple fan boy sites are a dime a dozen, but after weighing up the pros and cons and thinking long and hard, with much soul searching and contemplation of producing yet another site dedicated to all things Apple I thought, what the heck?

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