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- Black Friday Deals at the App(le) Store
- App Store Apps has a posted a list of over 50 iPhone application that are currently on sale many are free for Black Friday which begins at midnight ET tonight. A sampling: A Binary Clock Signboard Polyomino Puzzles Code Alpha Football...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- MacBooks: World's greenest family of notebooks
- Apple's latest Get A Mac television commercial proclaims the new MacBooks to be the "world's greenest family of notebooks." The ad touts the MacBook as completely recyclable and says that it uses a quarter of the amount of power of a single light bulb and has no mercury. ...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Will Apple launch a netbook? And other burning questions
- Apple has said "it doesn't do cheap," but one analyst reckons that Steve Jobs & Co. will address the netbook market at some point--either with an 11-inch MacBook Air priced between $800 and $1,000 in 2009 or a tablet Mac in 2010. That's one of the more...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Gene Munster, 3G, Notebooks, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- News to know: Ubuntu; New Macbook; BlackBerry Storm; Google layoffs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu? Netbooks + Ubuntu: OS solid but... Robin...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Layoff, Apple MacBook, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Is Apple pricing itself out of education?
- Fellow blogger, Robin Harris, wrote an interesting piece on the costly touches to the new MacBooks (design process, LED backlighting, etc.). Steve's history of putting form before function - or price - comes at a particularly bad time. The worldwide economic crunch - heckuva job, Greenspan! -...
- Tags: Education, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Pricing Strategy, Steve, Netbooks, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Apple's new Macbooks: flop or fiasco?
- The news that Apple has cut Macbook production by 20-30% may not be surprising given the world economy. But when HP reports that their Q3 notebook revenue grew 26% and Mac resellers are offering rebates on the new 'books things have gone very wrong in Cupertino. Looking,...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., NeXTCube, iMac G4, Steve, Netbooks, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- New MacBook Pro performance degrades with the battery removed
- Gearlog has discovered a weird issue with the latest generation (Late 2008) MacBook Pros – they run like dogs when the battery is removed. To the tune of a 37-percent drop in speed without the battery. Zach Honig benchmarked a 2.53GHz MacBook Pro...
- Tags: Performance, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook Pro Performance, Gearlog, Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- 3D gaming benchmarks for all three late-2008 MacBooks
- Rob-ART over at BareFeats.com has tested the new 'late 2008' MacBook 2.4GHz against the 2.53GHz and 2.8GHz MacBook Pro at its native 1280x800 and concludes: The fastest "late 2008" MacBook Pro* (2.8GHz) is about 20% faster than its fastest predecessor ("early 2008" MBP 2.6GHz) when...
- Tags: Game, 3D, Apple Macintosh, Nvidia GeForce, Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Apple's tea leaves: iPhone sales off a bit; MacBooks selling well
- Piper Jaffray Gene Munster unveiled his latest read on Apple demand Monday and reckons that the company will see iPhone December quarter sales to fall about 5 percent to 15 percent from the September quarter. Meanwhile, demand is "healthy" for the latest MacBooks. How Apple fares during...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Munster, Sales Strategy, Notebooks, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Are MacBooks starting to look like HPs?
- Separated at birth? Steve Urkel sent me the following email: I was at a relatives house and someone saw my MacBook and said "Hey, I've got that HP also." He was halfway joking, but his comment did point out a few things: PowerBooks...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- No penalty for MacBooks with 6GB; also works in some 2007 models
- A couple of weeks ago I noted an important new feature in the new MacBooks – the ability to use 6GB of RAM by installing one 4GB and one 2GB module. Previous MacBooks and MacBook Pros were limited to 4GB of physical memory. Adding more was...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, RAM, BareFeats, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Last-generation MacBook Pros: Get 'em while you can
- FireWire is the hot topic right now on some discussion boards, since Apple left it off the just-released lines of MacBook. However, you're looking at buying a new MacBook and if you think FireWire could be important to your workflow, perhaps check out the discount prices for the last-generation MacBook...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, FireWire, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Appearance: PPUG meets tomorrow in Philly
- If you're going to be in the Philadelphia area tomorrow, you should drop by the Philadelphia PowerBook User Group PPUG meeting at the Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant. We meet from 12 noon to 3pm over lunch and fine local beer. We'll discuss the latest mobile gear...
- Tags: Philadelphia, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Apple's MacBook gets a new look
- Apple's MacBook gets a new lookApple does it again!Apple has gone green with its new macbook, not sure how I feel about the keyboard design. Overall as usual Apple Inc delivered.
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- 6GB of RAM possible in new MacBook and MBP
- 6GB of RAM possible in new MacBook and MBPThe problem is that at least 2GB ....... will be substantially slowwer. DDR memory alternates devices when storing data to allow for address lines to stabilize. There is no second memory location for half of the $GB device.Dell E series...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, CPU, RAM
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- 6GB of RAM possible in new MacBook and MBP
- Ramjet now offers the ability to upgrade the new aluminum MacBook and the black bezel MacBook Pro to 6GB via one 4GB SO-DIMM module (US$599) and one 2GB module ($75) to reach the system maximum of 6GB. According to the company the modules are fully compatible...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, RAM, Ramjet, Ramjet 4GB Module, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- USB 2.0 is faster on MacBook Pro (Late 2008)
- USB 2.0 is faster on MacBook Pro (Late 2008)Well the speed increase on USB...does not help those with FireWire Drives and Video cameras.
- Tags: Notebooks, Late 2008, USB, USB 2.0, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- (Gallery: 10 Apple patents to watch )
- (Gallery: 10 Apple patents to watch )not so far fetchedthe capslock key on the MacBook has an led which turns on an off to let you know the capslock state. the PC keyboards with similar features put those LED's across the top of the keyboard. IMO, the MacBook...
- Tags: Notebooks, Keyboards, Tablets, Apple MacBook, Apple Patent, Gallery, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Apple's latest MacBook Pro
- Apple's latest MacBook ProCan't waitI can't wait to get my own copy of the Mac Book Pro! Ever since I've read these rumors started coming up, I can hardly wait to find out which one is true.GeForce 9300 and 9400 chipsI'm so glad that this rumor is true!
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Report: New MacBooks running cooler
- Report: New MacBooks running coolerMine's coolerDefinitely! My fan hardly ever even comes on here. It's a world of difference.Overall, despite the glossy glassy screen, I'm really happy with this new MacBook. And I couldn't care less about the lack of FireWire. It's an easy trade-off to lose a half pound.My...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, New MacBooks
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
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