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JoyOfTecher Nitrozac has a painting of Steve Jobs introducing the MacBook Air up for sale

A Gartner survey shows that Mac sales in Australia grew 52% in the last quarter

Remember, it’s already tomorrow in Australia!

If 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.

The 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.

MacDailyNews 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?

In 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.

If you have a MacBook Air you might want to make sure that you don’t accidentally throw it out like Steven Levy did (or at least he thinks his wife did).

After introducing the multitouch user interface in the iPhone and iPodTouch, and then in the MacBook Air Apple has now introduced it across the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines.Interestingly, this means that the desktop machines don’t have multitouch, which given it will no doubt be more widely adopted by developers as SDK’s for it become available, which may leave desktop users in the lurch. The obvious move would be for Apple to incorporate multitouch in the screens it manufacturers. However this answer would probably be a bad solution given the problem of gorilla arm. Perhaps a multitouch pad built into keyboards? A third party Kensington multitouch USB trackpad? Then again the MacBooks already use a different input method to mice, however it’s not clear how easily the rotational gestures would map to a mouse (scrolling and zooming is already usually mapped to the scroll wheel/ball). Mouse with a knob?Or perhaps Apple has an even more revolutionary input device up its sleeve…

UneasySilence has had a delivery and taken MacBook Air unboxing photos. Check out the photo of the thickness of the MacBook Air compared to the CD jewel case.

Make links to how to install Mac OS X on the lightweight solid-state drive powered Asus EEE PC (for those who can’t afford a MacBook Air with a solid-state drive :).