Teardown of 4th gen Time Capsule reveals not so server-grade HDD

Oh boy. That RDF must be getting weak around the Poormac because this just doesn't sound right at all. The new Apple Time Capsule was released with the promise of giving Apple customers a 2TB or 3TB "server-grade" backup option is, anything but. In fact a recent teardown of the latest gen Time Capsule revealed a very consumer-grade Western Digital WD Caviar Green HDD found sitting inside.

I'm not going to knock Western Digital's ability to make decent hard drives but Apple is advertising "server-grade" internals and simply not delivering on that promise. This is quite an assholish move considering you're dropping quite a lot of coin for one of these. Ball is in your court Apple.

Macbidouille via AppleInsider

Microsoft Shuns Sexy Hipsters

Recently Microsoft unvieled a spot for their Kin series of feature phones which included a plethora of hipsters frolicking in all their ironic glory. Yesterday, Microsoft pulled the spot over perceived "sexting" message in the ad.

It's sad really. Microsoft pulled the ad for no reason other than a consumer watch group had a problem with a hipster showing too much man cleavage and then sending a picture to an ironically giddy fauxhemian beauty. Hell I would've pulled it because 20 seconds into the ad I had no clue they were sellin a phone.

So the question is: was the ad risqué or was it blown out of proportion?

Update: Below is the original in all it's ironic glory.



Microsoft via Gizmodo