Tag Archive for 'macbook'
There isn’t a much better way to find out just how much of a runt the youngest in a family is than to hold a pentathlon testing everything that matters in athletic capabilities. So that’s what Gizmodo did, pitting the new MacBook Air against an MBP and a regular MacBook.
Apparently we haven’t made it far enough into the big time to get pre-release review units of Apple products, but USA Today, Newsweek, and the WSJ have, and Gizmodo was kind enough to summarize them all for us. So, what are the biggest complaints? What are the biggest pluses?
So the rumor is that the MacBook Air didn’t just jeer off the beaten path of an Intel ultra-portable at the processor stop, but also at the USB stop. Basically the reason the external SuperDrive will only work with the MacBook Air is due to power requirements that only the MacBook Air’s supercharged USB port [...]
So, we know from the keynote that the MacBook Air has a Core 2 Duo that is 60% smaller than the normal Core 2 Duo chip, and we know that this came out of a partnership with Apple. What we don’t know too much about is anything else including the how or why.
Those of you who have already opted not to buy a new MacBook Air, but were more interested in the $99 SuperDrive that you could get for the MacBook air had better look the other way. It turns out Apple has somehow made it so that the USB connected/powered SuperDrive is only useable with [...]
Part of the MacBook Air announcement was regarding just how environmentally friendly it is. They’ve lost the arsenic in the glass, and there is no mercury in the display either.
The rumors were true: Apple has announced an ultraportable laptop, the MacBook Air, will be added to their range. Measuring just .75-inches at its thickest point and an amazing .16-inches at its thinnest, the MacBook Air has an LED-backlit 13.3-inch display, full-sized keyboard with ambient light sensor and built-in iSight webcam, and storms the shelves [...]
MacRumors actually owns the MacBookAir.com domain and set it up so it performed a redirect to a query string on the Apple site of “Will We see a MacBookAir on Tuesday” which resulted in the site we were all seeing earlier today. That’s why, if you go to macbookair.com now, it won’t do anything because [...]
So someone combined the patent from the iMac dock thing that was all over the place yesterday, and then the rumored MacBook Touch and they came up with this rendition of the MacBook Touch or Mac Tablet.
An Apple patent for an iMac-like docking station lends further credibility to the ongoing rumor that the company is set to announce an ultraportable notebook in the near future, possibly even at the upcoming MacWorld expo. The patent (illustrated with this mockup image from Gizmodo) describes an base station with the same ports and connectivity [...]
