With Intel’s new processor announcements slated for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference starting February 7th, it would seem that it’s about time for Apple to release a new top of the line MacBook Pro as the announcements usually seem to coincide (and it also coincides with MacWorldl Expo. The MacBook Pro is 242 days since the last release, somewhat over the average of 200 days.
Archive for the ‘MacBook Air’ Category
New 17 inch MacBook Pros soon?
Friday, February 5th, 201017 inch Unibody MacBook Pro now shipping in 5-7 days
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009As of last Friday apparently the Australian Apple Store is now listing the 17 inch Unibody MacBook Pro as shipping within 5-7 days.
A reminder also that students, teachers and educational professionals are also able to get $176 rebate if they purchase an iPod with an iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.
MacBook Air late 2008 screen issues
Friday, December 5th, 2008TidBITs is reporting that many owners of the late 2008 MacBook Air models are experiencing grey horizontal lines on their displays.
Painting of Steve Jobs for sale
Friday, September 26th, 2008JoyOfTecher Nitrozac has a painting of Steve Jobs introducing the MacBook Air up for sale
Aussies switching to Macs faster than the rest of the world
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008A Gartner survey shows that Mac sales in Australia grew 52% in the last quarter
Remember, it’s already tomorrow in Australia!
Etch-a-sketch laptop cozy
Sunday, August 17th, 2008If you’ve got the sewing skills (or you know someone who does), you could try making this very cool Etch-a-sketch themed laptop cozy.
via Redbraids.
MacBook Air SSD drive comparison
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008The folks over at StorageMojo have a battery life comparison of MacBook Airs with hard drives and SSD drives. Also a comparison of MacBook Pros with and without SSD drives.
Anybody with a MacBook Air with SSD care to comment if they’ve got a /.hotfiles.btree file on their machine? This would possibly indicate that Mac OS X is still shuffling around their file system to optimise file access as if it was on a hard drive.
Apple now worth 4 times as much as Dell
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008MacDailyNews reports that Apple’s market value is now four times as big as Dell’s. Perhaps it’s time for Michael Dell to sell up and give the money back to the shareholders?
Unsticking pins on a MagSafe connector
Thursday, April 17th, 2008In addition to the instructions on how to clean a MacBook’s MagSafe Connector, there’s also a KnowledgeBase article on how to unstick pins in a MagSafe Connector.
