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- Stealthy Battery Update addresses swelling
- Whenever Apple releases a software update you sometimes have read between the lines to get the whole story. Late Friday Apple quietly released the mysterious Battery Update 1.2 with the the brief explanation that it "updates battery firmware and improves battery functionality." Um, sure. According to the BBC there is...
- Tags: Software Update, Software, MacBook Pro, MacBook, Battery
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Top 10 Apple Core Stories of 2006
- Its almost the end of the year so I thought that it would be a good time to recap your favorite stories from The Apple Core in 2006.10. Apple partners with Nike on iPod for runnersThe Nike+ iPod kit is a boon for runners and one of the tightest and...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Computer Inc., General
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- Inside Apple's new 200GB notebook drive
- Apple slipped another nice upgrade out with the announcement of the new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro's yesterday: a 200GB hard drive option. When configuring a new MacBook Pro at Apple's online store you'll notice the new option.For US$200 you can upgrade from the standard 120GB to Apple's new 200GB...
- Tags: Notebooks, notebook, Apple Computer Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, hard drive
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Inside Apple's new Core 2 Duo chip
- Apple released a significant update to the MacBook Pro yesterday adding a new Core 2 Duo T-series processor to the mix. Let's take a look at what's changed.Core 2 Duo MicroprocessorApple has upgraded the MacBook Pro to the latest Intel silicon and the Core 2 Duo chip features a 64-bit...
- Tags: Intel Core 2 Duo
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Apple announces Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro
- Apple today announced Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros. All MacBook Pro models now offer double the memory and greater storage capacity than the previous generation, as well as a FireWire 800 port. Every MacBook Pro features the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB of shared L2 cache, which is...
- Tags: FireWire
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Make your own (RED) MacBook Pro
- After Fridays launch of the PRODUCT RED iPod nano to benefit The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, there are some rumblings that Apple may extend the program to include other products as well. Think Secret reports that Apple may be considering creating a red MacBook and iMac...
- Tags: Apple MacBook
- Blog posts 2006-10-17
- MacBook Pro arriving fashionably late to the Merom party
- Almost every PC notebook vendor and their brother is hawking Core 2 Duo powered notebooks these days and Mac-heads are starting to get a little miffed. Understandably so. Didn't Apple jumped into bed with Intel because they had a great chip pipeline and they could deliver the silicon -...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple MacBook, Intel Core 2 Duo
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
- Federal government clears MacBook Pro batteries
- According to the Feds MacBook Pro owners concerned about the safety of their Lithium Ion battery packs can breathe a sigh of relief, but only if the battery serial number has been checked against Apple's list of recalled cells noted in their voluntary exchange program. Recalled MacBook Pro batteries are...
- Tags: battery
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- Dell, Apple notebook batteries linked
- The world's largest personal computer maker, Dell Inc., announced yesterday that it would recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries with cells made by Sony Corp. The recall is the largest in Dell's consumer electronics history. Dell has identified a...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., battery
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- Apple recalls early MacBook Pro 15-inch batteries
- Readers of this blog will remember that I posted a note about a silent recall of MacBook Pro batteries back on May 3, 2006. After several reports of MacBook Pros suddenly shutting down - like mine did - Apple has finally come clean and admitted that there is a...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple MacBook, battery
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- Mac OS 10.4.7 update bonus: two-finger right click
- A nice little bonus arrive with yesterday's release of Mac 10.4.7: two-finger right clicking for 15-inch MacBook Pro owners. Originally reported at TUAW Apple's 113MB update for OS X included this nice little feature for MacBook Pro users that previously had to install a hack to get the functionality.Two-finger...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- Sticky space bar
- As you can probably guess I use my MacBook Pro all the time. It's my primary machine and blogging for ZDNet, editing the PowerPage, email and IM keep me pretty busy. A couple of weeks back my MBP keyboard started acting a little wonky. I use the MacBook Pro's built-in...
- Tags: Apple MacBook Pro, keyboard, time-I
- Blog posts 2006-06-04
- Anatomy of a MacBook Pro repair
- Last week I wrote about Apple addressing problems with some early MacBook Pro models suffering from inverter whine, CPU whine and high temps with updated logic boards. Serial numbers starting with W8611 and later are reportedly "Revision D" boards, while earlier numbers are Revision C. (There's more on decoding your...
- Tags: inverter, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
- MacBook Pro issues addressed with 'Rev. D' logic board
- Apple's MacBook Pro is undoubtedly the fastest and most powerful notebook computer Apple has ever launched, but it's not without its problems.Tuan Nguyen at Daily Tech has posted a number of issues with his MBP:- AirPort doesn't automatically rejoin a preferred network after waking from sleep. - AirPort reception drops...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Web snafu
- The roller coaster ride of Apple ship dates keeps on rolling. Yesterday I posted a note about a new third configuration of the MacBook Pro that Apple was offering on the high end - a previously unannounced 2.16GHz model.When a sharp PowerPage reader noted that the new 2.16GHz MacBook Pro...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., 2.16GHz MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2006-02-16
- MacBook Pro speed-bumps delayed
- I was excited yesterday to report that Apple had speed-bumped the MacBook Pro notebooks to 1.83 and 2.0GHz but disappointed that they also moved my ship date back almost two weeks as a result. Did Apple just throw us a bone? I ordered my MacBook Pro 1.83GHz on the...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
- Apple's Valentine's present: faster MacBook Pros
- In a surprise move Apple today announced that they speed-bumped the original MacBook Pro configurations to 1.83 and 2.0GHz without notice. The faster 2.0GHz MBP's will begin shipping "this week" and the 1.83GHz configurations "next week" according to Apple.Apple also added a third top-of-the-line 2.16GHz MacBook Pro configuration today that...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- MacBook Pro orders queue up
- Like most people eagerly awaiting a new notebook to replace an aging PowerBook, I almost fell off my chair when Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Pro at last month's Macworld Expo keynote address in San Francisco. After the keynote was over I couldn't hit the refresh button fast enough...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
- More on the MacBook Pro SuperDrive
- One of the most surprising things about the announcement of the the new MacBook Pro at Macworld Expo this week was Apple's dropping the 8x burning double-layer SuperDrive in favor of an inferior 4x single-layer mechanism. I was puzzled during his keynote address when Steve Jobs listed the specs of...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, Apple Computer Inc., Apple PowerBook, new MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2006-01-13
Additional Resources
- Hot rumor: Apple developing LCD HDTV with built-in networking, Apple TV?
- Just in case you wanted a new Apple rumor that didn't involve updated MacBooks and building laptops out of aluminum bricks, here's an inevitable-seeming one from tech guru Jason Calacanis, who tells our sister site CNET UK that Apple is planning an LCD-based HDTV that would sport built-in networking and...
- Tags: Network, built-In, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, LCD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
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