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New MacBook Pro teardown reveals flaw in Apple engineering

iFixit posted a full dissection review of the new MacBook Pros, both 13″ and 15″, as it always does with new Apple computers. The teardown revealed that Apple, an undisputed master of industrial design, may have ran into a bit of an engineering flaw. The teardown pictures showed that the placement of the new SD [...]

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Snow Leopard QuickTime X Adds Screen Recording

Something that Apple did not really reveal to the public yet is a cool little feature in QuickTime X in Snow Leopard: Screen Recording. Gina Trapani over at Lifehacker.com captured some screens of QuickTime X in action in the WWDC Developer’s Build of Snow Leopard, and discovered that this is a neat new feature that [...]

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Apple Previews Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Right after the introduction of the new MacBook line-up during the WWDC keynote, Phil Schiller called on a bunch of Apple execs to help him talk about, preview, and demo the much-anticipated next-gen OS X cat, 10.6 Snow Leopard. The OS was introduced earlier last year as one that contained mainly refinements to Leopard (thus [...]

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Safari 4 Final Adds Tweaked PDF Interface

Just a small little note of a slight interface tweak in Safari 4: the native PDF support. Just in line with some other changes to allow the user to see the progress of their page-loading, opening a PDF link in Safari 4 now shows a progress bar for the downloading of the PDF file. No [...]

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MacBook Pro 2.53 GHz (WWDC) Unboxing

As I mentioned in a previous post, I placed an order for one of the new MacBook Pros the minute the Apple Stores came back online after the WWDC keynote. This is the low-end $1,699 15.4″ MBPs with a 2.53 GHz processor, 4 GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 RAM, 250 GB hard drive, the NVIDIA [...]

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Apple Tidies Up New MacBook Line

Phil Schiller on Monday at the WWDC Keynote unveiled a new line of MacBook Pros and effectively tidied up the previously slightly messy notebook line. Instead of writing everything out, here’s the before and after in bullet format: Before: MacBook Air 13.3″ 1.6 GHz MacBook White 13.3″ 2.13 GHz MacBook Unibody 13.3″ 2.0 GHz MacBook [...]

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Phil Schiller takes the stage!

Phil Schiller took the stage Monday morning at the WWDC opening keynote to do what Apple execs always do at the start of these keynotes: comb through Apple sales numbers, Mac market share, and the existing product line. After barely 5 minutes into the keynote, Phil introduces new 15″ MacBook Pros with the built-in Li-Polymer [...]

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Are We Ready for the WWDC Keynote?

The opening keynote at WWDC is due to start in just under 2 hours, hopes are high and the atmosphere is tense. I will be live blogging and live tweeting updates as they chime in, all here on TQB. Subscribe and/or check in here at 10 a.m. PDT. For those who cannot be there at [...]

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Apple readying lower-priced MacBooks, iMacs?

Apple is allegedly in the process of restructuring its Mac offerings to include a number of lower-priced models, an unnamed source has told AppleInsider. Specific details remain unavailable, but the company is believed to be readying more affordable variations of the 13-inch MacBook and iMac, two of its best-selling products. Although Apple recently reported its best non-holiday quarter [...]

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Drool-Worthy MacBook Touch Design

“Designer Tommaso Gecchelin isn’t oblivious to all the rumors surrounding a [tablet-like Mac] made by our favorite fruit manufacturer. We try not to indulge in rumors here at YD but sometimes they do provide fuel for inspiration, such is the case with this MacBook Touch,” Yanko Design reports. “Gecchelin reasons if Apple were to go [...]

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