The Apple Beat: Mac Pro getting pre-order status in Germany as launch anticipation builds

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple's new Mac Pro is the supercar of desktops. A product that's both exotic and incredibly powerful and quite far ahead of what the competition has available now.

The much awaited replacement to the cheese grater Mac Pro design (which harkens back to the dark days of PowerPC and the G5) is also one which unapologetically pushes various boundaries in industrial design, engineering, fabrication and performance. Apple's promised that the first Mac Pros would be available to order in December and while no firm date has been set, a German reseller is already taking orders for this statement product.

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Review: Withings Pulse fitness tracker

By Jared DiPane

Over the course of the last year we have seen a number of fitness trackers come to the market and each of them seems to promise something a little different. The problem for consumers becomes that each of these does one thing and not another, and it becomes overly confusing. Withings has been around in fitness accessories for a few years mainly with their WiFI enabled scales that did more than just track weight and this year they introduced the Withings Pulse.

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Review: Sonos PLAY:1 wireless streaming speaker

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

There's no shortage of streaming music on the Internet and there's various ways to get this into your home or office, but none are as satisfying as what Sonos offers. The company is a pioneer in Internet radio and hifi audio streaming and has enabled a powerful solution with its Bridge and PLAY products as well as its iOS and Android apps that enable fast access to various music sources. Here's what the PLAY:1 has to offer.

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ICYMI: Corey Herscu talks tech gifts for the Season on Global TV this morning

Corey is back on Global talking Canadian made Etsy tech accessory gifts and even sponsoring a giveaway for an iPad Air as well as a one of a kind iPhone 5 case. Check out the video from this morning's broadcast.