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Get seasick with Liquid Mac

June 13, 2008 in Apple by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)

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Liquid MacYou know that sudden motion sensor that’s buried in your Mac to protect your hard drive? Want to have a little fun with it? Then check out Liquid Mac, a neat little app that makes your laptop’s screen look like it’s filled with colored water.

Once you’ve downloaded the app, select the color and response sensitivity you want, then gently tilt your laptop and watch the fluid splash around the screen. It’s oddly soothing, actually, unless you slosh it around too fast and make yourself nauseous.

When you tire of making waves, adjust the settings to represent beads and watch it rain on your screen. To see Liquid Mac in action, check out this cool video.

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Apple revises MacBook Pro firmware with v1.5.1

April 22, 2008 in Apple by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

(Via MacNN.)

Apple today released its MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.5.1, which it says provides fixes several issues to improve the stability of MacBook Pro computers. The update revises a recently-issued MBP firmware update that came alongside similar updates for most of its other Mac families, including the MacBook, MacBook Air, and iMac computers — as well as a specific MacBook Air Bluetooth update — and also comes with updated version of the Firmware Restoration CD 1.7. “After the firmware is successfully applied to your Mac, your Boot ROM Version will be:
 MBP21.00A5.B08 or MBP31.0070.B07,” the company notes.

The version of the Boot ROM installed on your computer can be confirmed using System Profiler. To complete the firmware update process, users must follow the instructions in the updater application (/Applications/Utilities/MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update.app), which will launch automatically when the Installer closes.

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MacBook Air verdict: Seminal computer, five reasons

April 7, 2008 in Apple by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

(Via Crave : The gadget blog.)

The Apple MacBook Air is a seminal computer. There I said it. I’m not going to pretend that my opinion is the final word (or anything close to it) but I will weigh in by saying it’s a ground-breaking product. After using it for about two months, here’s why.

Full post here.

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Hands-on: The new multitouch MacBook Pro

March 21, 2008 in Apple by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

(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.

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MacBook Air USB hacks

March 21, 2008 in Apple by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

(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 skinny little computer. How do we know this? Because the guy downloaded developer documentation for the ICH-8 chip, which offers 5 low-speed and 2 high-speed USB controllers.

He popped open his Air and measured the voltage at each pin. He then used a hacked memory key with a modded USB extension cable (with an extra resistor just to be safe). After connecting the memory key to one of the pins, his MacBook Air system log reported a USB error. A few more tests and adjustments later, he actually got his laptop to recognize the drive. In total, he found three working USB connections plus an unused SATA controller.

TUAW is awed. Be sure to check out the other mod on this much-opened Air: a carbon-fiber bottom case. Sleek!

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MacBook Air “will turn heads”

March 11, 2008 in Apple by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

(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 who is often on the go and wants your email, Internet, and access to your music, photos and movies, you’ll love MacBook Air.”

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New High-End MacBook Pro vs. Previous Mode

March 11, 2008 in Apple by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

(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 a benchmark, the performance improvement ranges from 23 to 32%.

So, one can clearly see the advantages of having Penryn processors in Macs, especially with their larger cache and support for SSE4 instruction set.

Last but not least, the new high-end is faster but it is less power consuming and does not heat your legs as much as the previous model.

for complete review, please visit our friend: http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp01.html

[translation by Linathael]

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MacBook Air Aflutter: Demand Stays Strong, Sold Out Often

March 3, 2008 in Apple by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

(Via myapplemenu.)

by Ken Fisher, Ars Technica

It might not be the iPhone, but the MacBook Air is selling much stronger than many of us wold have guessed. After a full month of being on the market, the MacBook Air is still a difficult commodity to obtain in some markets (not all), and Apple is still quoting a 5-7 business day minimum shipping time even for the most standard models ordered from its web site.

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