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Other World Computing Begins Shipping Hard Drive Kits for New MacBooks

Coming off the heels of the recently released new line of MacBooks, Other World Computing has begun shipping its own MacBook drive upgrades.

In true capitalistic fashion, the third-party memory provider’s drive upgrades take advantage of the new MacBooks and MacBook Pro’s replaceable drives, as the base model kits tend to be far less [...]

Steve Jobs Responds to Missing FireWire Outrage via Email

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has allegedly responded to an email regarding the outrage over missing FireWire in Apple’s new 13″ Macbook. The email, which hasn’t entirely been authenticated, explains that most digital camcorders use USB 2.0, as apposed to the now absent Firewire.
Jobs has been known to respond randomly to emails. In early August an [...]

Greenpeace Reviews Apple’s ‘Greener’ Approach to New Notebook Family

In response to Apple’s ongoing environmental efforts, Greenpeace has recently offered up a commendatory look at the new MacBook line, yet notes there may still be some room for improvement.

In recent statements concerning a “Greener Apple,” Steve Jobs has noted the new MacBook line to sport reduced toxics, less packaging, and better overall efficiency. Greenpeace [...]

Macbook and Macbook Pro Torn Down, Reveal Gorgeous Internals

Not long after Apple has unveiled a new notebook family, iFixit.com has managed to tear Apple’s new unibody Macbook and unibody Macbook Pro apart. Complimenting the process with high resolution photos, the machine reveals a gorgeous set of internals.
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Although Apple’s senior vice president of design, Jony Ive, revealed the new unibody manufacturing process in [...]

New 15″ Macbook Pro: First Unboxing Photos and Impressions

We just got our hands on a brand new 15″ Macbook Pro. Below are some photos of the unboxing experience and our general first impressions and thoughts about the new notebook.
Specs for this Macbook Pro: 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM – 2×2GB, 320GB Serial ATA @ 7200, 6MB shared L2 cache, [...]

What Apple Didn’t Announce At the Notebook Event, And Why

Apple released a new line of notebooks at yesterday’s special media event. The new family of laptops delivers enhanced performance and extremely sleek new exterior designs, not to mention an adopted manufacturing process that allows the notebooks to be machined from one piece of aluminum.
But just as the rumor mill loves to do, information and [...]

Apple Nails It: New Notebooks Spot On

Apple’s new notebooks, which were unveiled earlier today, are absolutely spot on. While some are claiming the new notebooks still to be too expensive, the new technology unveiled today has far surpassed our expectations. From the unibody enclosure to the built-to-order SSD options across the board, Apple’s new line of notebooks is clearly in a [...]

Apple’s Notebook Family Price-Points Have Analysts in a Tizzy

Apple has released an entirely new family of notebooks today, as well as a revamped LED Cinema Display. Instead of reducing prices to soften the friction towards a hurting economy, Apple has decided to remain steadfast in their approach of adding new features and better performance while keeping price points intact.

In the face of completely [...]

Apple Releases Software Update 1.2 for Macbook, Macbook Pro

Apple has released a software update for users of the Macbook and Macbook Pro. The update is available via Software Update (or by download here) and weighs in at a beefy 45 MB.

Although the new notebooks are shipping today, they are not available at any Apple retail stores, so the beefy updates come with a [...]

Apple Notebook Event Rumor Roundup: Wishes Do Come True

Over the past several months, not just the Apple community, but the entire tech industry had been speculating about Apple’s then unreleased product announcements. For the most part, rumors have been accurate, and Apple has done a great job listening to consumers.
Let’s take a look at how accurate the Rumor Mill really was.

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In June [...]

Ars Technica: Hands On With Macbook/Pro’s Removable Hard Drive

Clint Ecker from Ars Technica provides the first hands-on coverage of Apple’s new Macbook Pro.
“First, the battery cover is now removed with a latch instead of the old rotational lock that required a coin to turn. Secondly, the Kensington lock port, when activated, will also lock this latch and keep anyone from stealing [...]

Leaked: Macbook Pro Photos, Contains Two NVIDIA GPUs Inside [Updates]

Engadget has posted last minute leaked photos of Apple’s upcoming Macbook Pro. Aside from an updated keyboard, magnetic closure and the absence of trackpad buttons, Engadget claims their source explains the machine as having two full on NVIDIA GPUs.

Aside from the absence of a front loading dual drive, the new images look similar to what [...]

$899 Notebook, New Model or Entry Level Macbook?

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) sent out invitations on Thursday, October 9th with the tagline “the spotlight turns to notebooks,” inviting members of the media to a special event which will take place tomorrow morning at 10am PST. CNBC’s Jim Goldman expects the company to go “nuclear” while unveiling a new $899 laptop. Whether or not the [...]

Oct 14th Apple Event: What You Should Expect to See and What’s Not Likely

Apple sent out invitations to members of the media on Thursday, October 9th with the tagline “the spotlight turns to notebooks,” inviting them to a special event to be held on Tuesday, October 14th, at 10am on Apple’s Campus in Cupertino, California.
Rumors about everything from a tablet to a new manufacturing process have [...]

Leaked: Macbook Pro Case Images, Higher Resolution Photos

Confirming the release of Apple’s upcoming Macbook Pro, MacX.cn has posted a few higher resolution, leaked images of the notebook. Depicting a solid body made out of aluminum, the notebooks are set to be released at Apple’s notebook media event on Tuesday, October 14th.

These new images confirm some leaked case shots we saw last week. [...]

NVIDIA GPU Failures, Some Macbook Pros Affected

This past July, Nvidia’s notebook graphics cards- the ones with the G84 or G86 chip set- failed at “higher than-normal” rates. Apple is owning up to the malfunction and is offering to fix any Nvidia graphics card problem for free within two years of the original purchase date.

Current MacBook Pros have the GeForce 8600M [...]

Leaked Video: Macbook Design Allegedly Shown

A video showing off Apple’s upcoming Macbook case design has been leaked by the same sources that have previously provided images of the top shell and outer casing of the new hardware. The short clip is below.

It’s difficult to determine whether the footage is actually accurate. There are no direct signs of manipulating the video/footage, [...]

Macbooks to Be Two-Tone, Plastic and Aluminum?

Seth Weintraub from 9to5Mac claims that BoingBoing is wrong in their prediction that Apple’s recent Media event invitation shows an image of a 13.3″ Aluminum Macbook.

On October 1st, we reported about some alleged leaked, blurry spy-shots that anonymously came in. The images depicted a two-tone Apple notebook, accompanied by a mockup of a two-tone Macbook [...]

Rumor Roundup: Apple’s Upcoming Notebook Media Event

Apple is holding a Special Media Event on Tuesday October 14th, 2008 to unveil a new line of notebooks. While the community waits in anticipation, we thought it’d be best to cover all of the information we currently know regarding the upcoming notebooks. (Here’s a recap)

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READ → Back in June our sources gave us information [...]

Gene Munster: Sub $1,000 Macbook On The Way

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has provided recent insight into Apple’s much anticipated upcoming notebook line noting possible price reductions of up to 18 percent.

Mockup via Cult of Mac via oobject.com
Following on the heels of the recently announced MacBook event set for October 14, Munster has issued an announcement to clients stating that the event [...]