Hands-on: The new multitouch MacBook Pro

Friday, March 21st, 2008

(Via Computerworld Macintosh News.) Apple's latest MacBook Pro updates an already solid laptop with slightly faster chips, larger hard drives, more video RAM and, best of all, the multitouch trackpad unveiled in the MacBook Air.

MacBook Air USB hacks

Friday, March 21st, 2008

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.) TUAW reader Rowan Pope pointed us to this insane MacBook Air hacking post. How many USB ports does the Air support? Apple says just one; this post says up to 7. Apparently, the Air has a few extra live USB port connections built into that thar ...

Apple firmware update enables wireless Time Machine backup via Airport Extreme Base Station

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

(Via MacDaily News.) With today's Time Machine and AirPort Updates v1.0, Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's Time Machine now supports...

FabioHofnik has added a photo to the pool

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

(Via Flickr Mac Mini Photo Pool.) FabioHofnik has added a photo to the pool:

Iowa school district handing out MacBooks to grades 5-12

Monday, March 17th, 2008

(Via Infinite Loop.) The Central City school district in Central City, Iowa will be distributing MacBooks to eight grades in the fall, complete with Mobile Learning Labs for the young'uns.Read More...

Introducing the new AirPort Express with 802.11n

Monday, March 17th, 2008

(Via Apple Hot News.) Now featuring support for the faster 802.11n Wi-Fi specification, the new AirPort Express Base Station delivers up to five times the performance and twice the range of the previous model. The world's smallest 802.11n-based mobile base station, the new AirPort Express offers a great option for ...

MacBook Air “will turn heads”

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

(Via Hot Apple News.) A major step forward in portable computing," MacBook Air, writes Eric M. Strauss (abcnews.go.com) "is a mega-desirable computer that blends aerodynamic styling with serious innovations in an itsy, bitsy three-pound package that is a blast to use." Strauss suggests that "if you are a student or worker-bee ...

New High-End MacBook Pro vs. Previous Mode

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

(Via HardMac.) Barefeats compared the new high-end MacBook Pro 2.6GHz Penryn and the previous model based on Santa Rosa clocked at 2.4GHz.the performance gain is not marginal, and more important than the one expected from a CPU speed boost. With Cinebench, the CPU performance improved by 16% while using Motion as ...

Apple Not Hurrying to Add Blu-ray Drives to MacBook Pro

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

(Via Wired News: Cult of Mac.) Apple has long been a supporter of Blu-ray, and with this week's demise of the competing HD DVD standard, some fans are starting to wonder when Apple will actually begin adding Blu-ray drives to its computers.

Fantom unveils eSATA, USB 2.0 RAID storage

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

(Via MacNN.) Fantom Drives today unveiled its new G-Force MegaDisk eSATA+USB external storage system with multiple RAID options. Fantom's external storage system includes NTI Shadow Backup for real-time continuous backup, and supports 300MB/sec transfers via eSATA or 60MB/sec via USB 2.0. user configurable RAID modes include RAID 0 (disk striping) for ...