Apple updated its popular MacBook with a new polycarbonate unibody design including a LED-backlit display, a glass multi-touch trackpad and a built-in battery for up to seven hours of battery life. The new MacBook has a 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB RAM, a 250GB hard drive, and powerful NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated [...]
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Here are some highlights from Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2009. This post will be updated as information comes in. New version of the 15-inch MacBook Pro includes built-in battery with up to 7 hours of battery life. Gone is the ExpressCard slot, and there is an SD-card slot in its place. The display [...]
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Here is a short video showing the upgrade of a MacBook to a Modbook in stop-motion style. Upgrades are performed by TechRestore. Click here to watch the video
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The base model white MacBook got a meager update in the graphics department. The upgrade gives the white MacBook an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics which is the same graphics chip as the aluminum unibody 13″ MacBook, and 2GB of RAM. Bluetooth was also upgraded from 2.0 to 2.1. All other specs seem to have remained [...]
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Who needs a keyboard when you can do everything with a scroll wheel?
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Check out this mod by wolphcry — the guts of a MacBook crammed into a Macally G-S350SUA external hard drive case. This all started when wolphcry received a 13-inch MacBook that was the victim of water damage. After some testing, he found that the motherboard was still good, but the LCD and some other parts [...]
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Watch Jonathan Ive, Dan Riccio, and Bob Mansfield talk about the design of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro. I was admittedly skeptical when I first heard the rumors that Apple would be able to make such a manufacturing process economically feasible. Looks like I was wrong.
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Last quarter, 2.5 million Macs were sold, and the last several quarters have seen double and triple market growth. Apple retail stores see an average of 400,000 visitors a day. 50% of the Macs sold at retail stores are to new Mac customers. Macs at major universities has increased from 15% to 50%. In Q1-Q3 [...]
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Apple will hold a special, invitation-only event on October 14 at 10AM PST at their headquarters in Cupertino, CA. Will there be new MacBooks and MacBook Pros that even remotely resemble the spy photos? We’ll have to wait and see.
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Here are some outstanding deals on Apple Certified Refurbished Macs and other Apple hardware. Don’t let the word “refurbished” scare you away though. These machines have all been tested and have the same 1-year warranty as the ones you would buy new for hundreds of dollars more. If you are looking for a deal on [...]
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