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At US$519 (discounted price at that), the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-X video card costs more than the new Mac mini from Apple. What??? A $519 video card??? Yup, and that’s just the start of the upgrade path to take…
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The $499 Mac mini
Without much fanfare, Apple quietly released its ‘Mac for the Rest of Us’ today, January 11, 2005, via the new Mac mini. January had been a favorite month of Apple’s co-founder, Steve Jobs, to launch new products. Very memorable was…
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Coffee for Five in Santa Ynez Valley and Beyond
My sister called the night before that it was better to start the journey from her house in Santa Cruz, which is about a 40-minute drive from Fremont. And so, very early that morning, just several minutes after we had…
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The Grapes of Highway 29
The Vigan ‘longanizas‘ (sausages from Vigan, which is a town about 250 miles north of Manila and noted for its rich Spanish heritage) smelled even more garlicky that morning as I placed the remaining links on a clear bowl. The…
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Of Mist and Melting to Sonora
I beckoned my aunts (on a visit from Manila) to the waiting car as I prepped the engine for our trip to the Black Oak Indian reservation casino situated in Tuolumne, California — about 8 miles east of Sonora. The…
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