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Exclusive: First look at the FastMac U-Charge (updated): Here's an exclusive sneak peak of FastMac's newest product: U-Charge. U-Charge is a portable, standalone charger that connects directly to the battery's terminals to recharge the battery quickly and efficiently. It's compatible with over nine years of Apple laptop batteries as well as after-market/third party replacements like...; Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Battery, Apple MacBook, Apple PowerBook, Engineering, Notebooks, FastMac U-Charge, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Apple battery fiasco: Hours after posting yesterday that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC determined that substandard batteries for Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro "didn't pose any safety threat" the same organized notified the public that Apple would be recalling 1.8 million Lithium Ion batteries sold for the PowerBook G4...; Tags: Apple iBook, battery; Blog posts 2006-08-25
Apple announces 17-inch MacBook Pro: Without the fanfare of a keynote address or even a media event, Apple yesterday announced the MacBook Pro 17-inch. The new large screen Intel Core Duo-based Apple portable replaces the PowerBook G4 17-inch leaving the 12-inch as the last remaining PowerBook G4 available at the Apple online store.Specs on the...; Tags: MBP15, MBP17; Blog posts 2006-04-25
Where did my hard drive go?: I've said before that mobile hard drive capacity seems to be the only thing that doesn't keep up with Moore's Law, but this is getting ridiculous.It seems like space on my MacBook Pro hard drive is disappearing. In 1992 I had a PowerBook 100 that came with a 20MB hard...; Tags: hard drive; Blog posts 2006-04-18
Tempmarks: MacBook Pro versus PowerBook G4: One of the most popular questions about the new MacBook Pro is about its temperature. Users of previous PowerBook G4s (especially the 12-inch model) are very conscious of the ambient heat generated by their machines. It's difficult to use on your lap after running for as little as 30 minutes....; Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro; Blog posts 2006-03-15

MacBook Pro benchmarks: launch times: The MacBook Pro is unquestionably faster than the PowerBook G4 it replaces, but exactly how much depends on how you use it. Apple sells the MacBook Pro as "up to four times the horsepower of the PowerBook G4" but that's purely based on the SPECint and SPECfp benchmarks from...; Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple PowerBook G4; Blog posts 2006-03-06
MacBook Pro's crazy new LEDs: The devil, as they say, is in the details. And the MacBook Pro is no exception. When I turned out the lights to go to bed recently I discovered something new about the MacBook Pro that was quite surprising. Apple has cranked up the keyboard backlight on the new notebook...; Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, keyboard, MBP; Blog posts 2006-03-01
PowerBook G4 defects: Apple is having some serious, documented issues with the 15-inch PowerBook G4s that were released in October 2005 (a.k.a "High-Resolution" or "Double-Layer SD") and it appears that they are ignoring them.1. There are profound issues with audio: it skips and stutters randomly. Apple has posted a Tech Note on the...; Tags: Apple PowerBook; Blog posts 2006-01-26
MacBook Pro requires new accessories: If you're in the market for a MacBook Pro to replace a PowerBook, you need to remember that Apple's new professional notebook requires a whole new set of accessories. If you have any PC Cards (i.e. EVDO cards or flash memory readers) you'll need to replace them because the...; Tags: Apple PowerBook, MBP RAM; Blog posts 2006-01-18
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
R.I.P. PowerBook: Apple CEO Steve Jobs used the stage at Macworld Expo 2006 today to announce the first Apple notebook based on the Intel processor, dropping the PowerBook moniker in the process. The MacBook Pro is 4 times faster than the PowerBook G4 that it replaces, according to Jobs, and will begin...; Tags: Notebooks, Monitors & displays, Serial ATA, Processors, TFT, Intel Core Duo, Apple PowerBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook; Blog posts 2006-01-10
PowerBook nano one step closer to reality?: A story in the Taipai Times reports that Topology research analyst Simon Yang is predicting that Apple will introduce new "light-weight [notebooks] with a stylish design aimed at luring female users." According to Yang the new Apple portables are expected to "include 12-inch notebooks weighing in at 1.5kg (3.3...; Tags: Notebooks, Apple PowerBook, Simon Yang, notebook, Apple iBook; Blog posts 2005-12-20
LED tubes show promise for PowerBooks: Yesterday I discussed how a PowerBook could be improved using flash memory technology in place of fixed disks. Today I want to look at ways to improve the display. One obvious way to improve the screens of Apple's PowerBooks and iBooks would be to further increase the available screen...; Tags: Apple PowerBook, light-emitting diode; Blog posts 2005-12-06
Diskless PowerBooks on the horizon: It would be great if Apple seriously considered creating a diskless PowerBook. They should ditch the fixed disk or Winchester hard drive forever in favor of Flash or Non-Volatile Read Write Memory NVRWM in their portable offerings. The hand writing is on the wall. After trashing flash-based MP3 players...; Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple PowerBook, hard drive; Blog posts 2005-12-06
Battery chargers vs. in-PowerBook charging: If you're like me you probably charge your PowerBook's battery in the PowerBook itself and don't worry too much about it. While this is fine in most cases, it's going to deplete the charge capacity of your battery over time. Especially if you constantly unplug and re-plug your machine.While it's...; Tags: battery; Blog posts 2005-11-08
PowerBook battery shenanigans: The Apple developer note for the new PowerBook announced on 19 October 2005 (1440 by 960 pixels) appears to contain conflicting information about its battery capacity: on page 11 it says: "the computer has a 6-cell battery pack that uses lithium ion cells and provides 50 watt-hours at 12.8 V...; Tags: Apple PowerBook, battery; Blog posts 2005-11-07
Intel PowerBooks ahead of schedule: AppleInsider is reporting that Apple's Intel PowerBooks and iBooks are ahead of schedule and could arrive as soon as April or May 2006.Originally slated for June of 2006, AI reports that iBooks are expected a little earlier than that to meet the educational buying window for the 2006/2007 academic year:Without...; Tags: new PowerBook, Apple PowerBook; Blog posts 2005-11-06
Aperture on PowerBooks: Apple's new post-production tool for photographers, Aperture, is one of the most promising applications to come along in a while and it has the potential to revolutionize photography as we know it. I'm wondering how it will perform on real world PowerBooks in the field. Apple lists Aperture's minimim...; Tags: Apple PowerBook, Aperture; Blog posts 2005-10-27
New PowerBooks underwhelm: Only Apple could announce PowerBooks at the same clock speed, and PowerMacs and a lower clock speed and call it an upgrade.There are some really cool things about the new PowerBooks announced yesterday: larger displays, support for the 30-inch Apple Cinema display, faster DDR2 memory and the 8x double-layer SuperDrive....; Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple Power Mac, Apple PowerBook; Blog posts 2005-10-20
Apple announces new PowerBooks, PowerMacs; Aperture: NEW YORK -- I'm at the Jacob Javits center in Manhattan live blogging the Apple media event here today. On stage is David Moody, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Mac Product Marketing. "We have a number of announcements today, both hardware and software." David begins by...; Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple PowerBook; Blog posts 2005-10-19