Six short months ago David Alison bought a little white MacBook as a complimentary machine to his menagerie of Windows and Linux machines. Little did he know what the impact of that purchase would have on his approach to computers. In today’s blog post David reviews what’s transpired since buying that first Mac.
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(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.
(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.
Tags: hardware, laptop, macbook, multi-touch
(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!
(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.
(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]
(Via myapplemenu.)
by Slash Lane, AppleInsider
Shares of Apple Inc. slumped further south on Wednesday amid a weakening macroeconomic outlook and reports of additional production cuts affecting not only the company’s handhelds, but also its red-hot notebook business.
(Via Apple Matters.)
People have been discussing the limitations and sacrifices when it comes to the MacBook Air. “You get a slimmer form factor but a slower processor.” or “The full size keyboard is nice, but what about the lack of optical drive?” or “Yeah, it’s a stylish computer, but no user replaceable…
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