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Reminder: Your Unibody MacBook’s Trackpad Is Magical
7:19AM John Herrman | Hey you, with the unibody MacBook. You probably heard that your trackpad supports 11-point multitouch, but do you know what the actually means? FingerMgmt shows you. More »
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Mac OS 10.6.2 Leaks New Core i5/i7 MacBook Pros?
11:54PM Mark Wilson | It’d be the most obvious leak in history, but the 10C531 build of OS 10.6.2 references the “MacBook Pro 6.1 and the MacBook Pro 6.1b”. All current Macbooks are strictly “5″ status. More »
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The Today Show Helps Microsoft Launch Win 7 On A MacBook Pro
5:40AM Sean Fallon | Good thing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn’t turn around during his spot on The Today Show. Clearly, someone at NBC either really loves Macs or can’t tell the difference between a MacBook and a PC. More »
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11:43AM Nick Broughall | On top of all its overnight announcements for product refreshes, Apple’s also taken the opportunity to tweak its pricing for the MacBook Pro and Air lineup. And it actually works in your favour this time! More »
Apple Adjusts Pricing For MacBook Pros (And Air)
11:43AM Nick Broughall | On top of all its overnight announcements for product refreshes, Apple’s also taken the opportunity to tweak its pricing for the MacBook Pro and Air lineup. And it actually works in your favour this time! More »
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Apple’s Update 1.0 Released, Addresses Hard Drive Issues
10:48AM Dan Nosowitz | Today, Apple released Performance Update 1.0 for Leopard and Snow Leopard, aiming to fix the intermittent hard drive problems reported by some users. We’d love to hear if it actually fixes those issues this time — let us know! [TheLoop]
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MacBook Pro Shocking The Crap Out Of This Poor Reader
4:30AM Matt Buchanan | Giz reader Nicholas has a little problem with his MacBook Pro: It’s shocking the crap out of him. It “sparks right at the bottom centre of the trackpad”. But Apple Geniuses tell him it’s actually just fine. More »
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11:00AM Chris Oaten | When Apple updated its MacBook Pros and dropped support for Firewire 400 ports, the company conveniently (for them) ignored the fact that many creatives, especially camcorder users, were left high and dry. More »
Firewire 400/800 Converters. Going Cheap(er)
11:00AM Chris Oaten | When Apple updated its MacBook Pros and dropped support for Firewire 400 ports, the company conveniently (for them) ignored the fact that many creatives, especially camcorder users, were left high and dry. More »
Hardware
Are You Having Problems After The SATA Firmware Update?
2:19AM Matt Buchanan | EFI Firmware 1.7 was the update Apple released to boost the speed of some MacBook Pro’s hard drive controller, which was capped at 1.5Gbps. But some people—72 pages worth—are saying it’s been making their machine crash and freeze and otherwise do bad things. How’s yours?
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Your Freezing, Clicking MacBook Pro Hard Drive Just Got Better
7:50AM Matt Buchanan | Have one of those 500GB 7200rpm hard drives in your MacBook Pro that’s pissing you off ’cause you bought for speed, but it’s like freezing and clicking and stuff? Apple’s just dropped the fix—well, they’ve released the firmware update for the drive, hopefully it’s the fix. [Apple via MacRumors]
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