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Posted Saturday, November 22, 2008 by Daniel Shain Strangly enough, Apple has decided it is in your benefit for their new MacBook to not perform very well when running on AC power alone. That’s right, when the battery is out of the laptop it takes a serious performance hit. And we mean serious – tests revealed a 37% drop. Many […]
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Posted by Daniel Shain Come along with us and peer into the guts of the new MacBook Pro 13″ as only the boys at ifixit can do. Apple recently introduced a 13″ variation into its MacBook Pro line and from the outside, it looks much like its 15 and 17 inch cousins. But how about from the inside? Not trusting […]
Continue reading »Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 by Daniel Shain Apple is bragging about a rare sale on its products this Friday. We’re not sure if they were influenced by the reports that Best Buy is offering discounts on Macs, but Apple is talking about an honest to goodness Apple-approved sale here. Instantly, that’s news. We don’t know if they approved or […]
Continue reading »Posted by Daniel Shain “Due to an unexpected delay, we are unale to ship your MacBook Air by the date originally quoted to you.” – Apple representative Originally scheduled to ship by November 5th and be delivered by November 10th, Apple has pushed the dates for the new entry MacBook Airs back by 19 days. For those of you that […]
Continue reading »Posted by Daniel Shain in Apple Macbook Laptops Apple’s larger 17″ MacBook Pro has finally been given the aluminum unibody finish its smaller cousins received three months ago. However, it’s also been given an update they never got – a new high tech battery that is not user-replaceable. $179. That’s the cost of replacing your battery on the new 17″ […]
Continue reading »Aside from some nifty hacks, running Leopard has meant purchasing a Mac. Psystar hopes to reverse that. Psystar, full of ambition and a poor understanding of the law, decided to up and make an ‘open’ computer that can run, amongst other things, OS X. Nicknamed the ‘Hackintosh’ and officially dubbed the ‘Open Computer’, Psystar has continued to sell this computer […]
Continue reading »Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 by Daniel Shain Psystar, famous for brashly producing “Hackintosh” computers running OSX without Apple’s consent, received some bad news from the courts today. Can’t say we’re surprised. We first heard about Psystar and their ‘open computer’ a few months ago, and since then the slow and ungainly right arm of the law has come swooping […]
Continue reading »Posted by Daniel Shain in IBM Lenovo Laptops, Dell Laptops Well, this came as a surprise. Whether you liked Macs or you didn’t, for a long time it has been hard not to concede that Macbook displays have been superior to standard notebook displays, much to the joy of photographers and designers everywhere. So what’s all this about a Dell […]
Continue reading »Posted by Daniel Shain in Apple Macbook Laptops Without much fanfare, Apple has recently updated the specs on its older (should we say classic yet?) white polycarbonate design. The new specs make it very very close to the newly updated and highly touted unibody models, while keeping that $999 price tag. For $999 you now get the latest generation Core […]
Continue reading »Posted ago by Daniel Shain by Daniel Shain The MacBook Air may be thinnest but it isn’t the lightest notebook out there anymore, and its no surprise Apple is looking at ways to claim that title back. At a little over three pounds, the MacBook Air is light, but not the lightest. There is a rumor that Apple is planning […]
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