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White MacBook Refreshed With Rubber Butt, LED Backlighting
3:03AM John Herrman | Nestled amongst a small explosion of maybe-exciting products is the only real right-fielder of the day: an design refresh for the polycarb Macbook, with a rubberised bottom, LED backlighting, and healthy spec bumps for the processor, RAM and HDD. More »
Computers
Is The New Macbook Air Actually Slower Than The Last One?
1:40AM John Herrman | Sluggishness was a consistent gripe with two prior versions of the MacBook Air, especially compared to the rest of the MacBook line. The latest version has speedier processor options, but according to recent benchmarks, might have gotten slower. Huh? More »
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Did Apple Downgrade The New Macbook Pro’s Hard Drive Controller?
12:00AM John Herrman | Over the weekend, we got a number of reports that Apple appears to have downgraded the SATA controllers in the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros from 3.0-gigabit to 1.5-gigabit units. Going over the evidence, it looks like they were right. More »
Deals
Apple Stores Knock Hundreds Off Leftover MacBooks To Clear Inventory
7:02PM John Herrman | What do you do when you’ve instituted a bottom-to-top refresh in your product line, your new shipments are imminent, but you still have hundreds of stores with leftover inventory? FIRE SALE, is what. More »
Computers
New MacBook Pros Can Boot From Internal SD Slot
3:00AM John Herrman | Aside from photo transfers and straight up storage expansion, the SD card slot in the new MacBook Pros has a single, extremely cool trick up its sleeve slot: it’s bootable. More »
Gadgets
IPhone 3GS, MacBook Pros, Snow Leopard, More From WWDC 2009
1:00PM Wilson Rothman | Today was big for Apple, busting out hardware updates in the two hottest lines—iPhones and MacBooks—along with final details on the overhauls of their two operating systems, too. We saw everything but a tablet—and Steve Jobs. More »
Gadgets
WWDC 2009 Rumour Smash: Some Were Right, Most Were SUCK!
12:20PM Wilson Rothman | Though Jesus debunked a number of the more fun WWDC rumors—what’s a “unibody” iPhone?—in his sober-light-of-day roundup last Friday, it’s nice to run through them all, to see how many rumours were true, and how many were smashable. More »
Gadgets
9:30AM Nick Broughall | It’s been a massive morning of Apple announcements out of the Worldwide Developers Conference in the US, so it’s only natural to summarise all the local implications here in one place. Here. More »
Aussie Apple Announcement Details
9:30AM Nick Broughall | It’s been a massive morning of Apple announcements out of the Worldwide Developers Conference in the US, so it’s only natural to summarise all the local implications here in one place. Here. More »
Computers
13-Inch MacBook Pro Arrives and MacBook Air Gets a Price Cut
3:17AM Adam Frucci | Apple just announced a spec bump for their 13-inch MacBook that brings it into MacBook Pro territory, and the MacBook Air got a whopping $US700 price drop. More »
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