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MacBook Airs Get Hit With A Thunderbolt
Apple’s brought both sizes of the MacBook Air line straight up to what you’d expect from a laptop in 2011, adding a Thunderbolt port, but more importantly some sweet Sandy Bridge i5 and i7 chips — and backlit keyboards.
Apple Patents More Five-Finger Gestures And Chargers With Built-In Battery Packs
Local Details On Those MacBook Pro Updates
So the Australian press release for the updated MacBook Pro machines landed in my inbox overnight. Here are the key configurations and prices, copy and pasted for your pleasure:
Is The New Macbook Air Actually Slower Than The Last One?
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?
Did Apple Downgrade The New Macbook Pro’s Hard Drive Controller?
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.
Apple Stores Knock Hundreds Off Leftover MacBooks To Clear Inventory
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.
New MacBook Pros Can Boot From Internal SD Slot
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.
IPhone 3GS, MacBook Pros, Snow Leopard, More From WWDC 2009
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.




















