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Dealzmodo: MacBook Air with Parallels $1150

Out with the old, in with the new. Course, if you’re okay with the old, you can usually pick it up for cast-off prices. Like the previous-gen MacBook Air, which MacMall is dumping for $1150 after a $100 mail-in rebate with free shipping. To sweeten the deal, you also get Parallels for free after rebate.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 14

Dealzmodo: New MacBook $200 Off at Fry’s (Update: Too Good to Be True)

Apple might get a bit crazier than usual with their typically staid Black Friday deals, but Fry’s is offering a pretty great deal right now: $200 off the new MacBook, making it only $1099. You probably won’t see a better MacBook deal than that. Quantities are limited, so get crackin’. Update: Laaaaame. Fry’s says they…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 13

MacBook Air Might Go Carbon Fiber to Shed Weight

The MacBook Air weighs a little over three pounds. Airy, but there’s lighter. Not surprisingly, Apple wants to weigh that little—under three pounds. The easiest way to cut the fat is to use a material less heavy than aluminum that won’t compromise the body’s integrity. Enter carbon fiber, which AppleInsider says might replace the Air’s…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 11

Giz Bingo Winner Is Now One Pizza Happier

Free pizza. Yummy. Along with free beer, life really doesn’t get any better than free pizza. Which is precisely what Maximillian Hill, the winner of Gizmodo’s MacBook Event Bingo, got last week: A large pizza with italian sausage and extra cheese. Maximillian sent us the bingo at exactly October 14, 10:30 AM east coast time:…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 11

Don’t Fear the Cheap Third-Party Laptop Battery

We’ve been giving you tons of ways to salvage your well-used gadgets as we weather the financiapocalypse, but one thing you can’t hack your way out of is needing a new battery for your laptop. Eventually, your battery will wear out to the point it won’t even chug through a single YouPorn clip, and by…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 7

MacBook Air With Nvidia-Powered H.264 Video Playback Runs Less Toasty

Like the MacBook and MacBook Pro, the new Nvidia-powered MacBook Air also uses hardware-acceleration for H.264 video playback. Benefit: Performance is better (duh), but also important for people who toasted their kibbles ‘n’ bits playing video on the old Air, the new one runs dramatically cooler. One Mac Rumors forum member found that the new…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 6

Shipments on New, Entry-Level MacBook Airs Delayed

Appleinsider is reporting that the early ship dates for new Nvidia-powered MacBook Airs will be pushed back until November 24th for anyone who purchased a 1.6GHz model with a 128GB HDD. Supply chain issues related to the hard drive seem to be behind the delay. [Appleinsider]

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 5

Stevemail Promises Software Fix for Glitchy MacBook Trackpads

A growing mass of people have been reporting that the omni-button trackpads on the new MacBooks are glitchy—every 50 or so clicks, the trackpad will stop responding for a few seconds at a time, even to hard clicks. Whether it’s a hardware or software issue hasn’t been officially confirmed by Apple, but a supposed email…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 5

New MacBooks Disable Pwnage Tool, Open Second Front in War on Jailbreaking

It’s a given that each firmware update for the iPhone and iPod Touch will seal up exploits used by the Dev Team to ‘Pwn’ the devices, but nobody expected the new MacBooks to present a problem for would-be Jailbreakers. Users over at HowardForums and iPodTouchFans are reporting problems running the Pwnage tool on the new…

Tech News John Herrman Nov 3

Horrible Wife Bakes Old MacBook Cake

How embarrassing. A loyal and loving wife baked this beautiful MacBook cake for her husband’s friend’s birthday. Note her meticulous attention to detail, including the little indentation in the front to open the computer and the perfect slightly-different-white Apple logo. Well maybe she should pay attention to new Apple announcements a little better. This lady…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 31

MacBook vs MacBook Pro: Hardcore Graphics Death Match

Here they are, the MacBook and MacBook Pro graphics benchmarks you’ve been waiting for. Our basic Mac-only benchmarks used in our dual review were great at showing how close the CPU performance was, but not great at illustrating the disparity between chunky-hunky 9600 GT and the comparatively weak integrated 9400M that we saw firsthand while…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 30

Screen Shootout: MacBook (New) vs. MacBook (Old) vs. MacBook Air

Even though the latest MacBook uses the same size display as the last-gen MacBook Air, the displays are not quite the same. The Air, being a more premium product, uses a display that’s more similar to the MacBook Pro than the MacBook. You’ll remember in our review that despite being both having glass components and…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 29

Psystar Working on Ugly-But-Cheap MacBook Clone

Calling Psystar’s planned Mac notebook ugly is teeeechnically speculation, but I don’t see how the Mac-cloner extraordinaire could produce a “very competitively priced” MacBook knockoff that isn’t a total brick. (Besides, have you seen their desktop?) Maybe it will shock and astound us all by being an well-designed, lustworthy piece of hardware at a cut-rate…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 29

Nvidia-Powered MacBook Airs Now Shipping

A little earlier than expected, the faster new MacBook Airs with Nvidia graphics and more storage are making their way to your door right now if you ordered one two weeks ago. [MacRumors]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 29

Axiotron Service Reincarnates Old Macbooks As Shiny New Modbook Tablets

If you’re a tablet-lover like me, you’ve probably bemoaned the lack of Apple tablets at some point in time. Though Axiotron’s Modbook looked pretty great, the nearly $2500 it costs put it way out of my price range. But the Gods of Technology must’ve heard my prayers, because Axiotron’s now offering a sweet deal to…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 29

Designing the New MacBook: Why It Couldn’t Have FireWire

Rainer Brockerhoff’s studied dissection of the new MacBook’s design—how certain design choices intersect with the realities of components to produce real notebooks—perfectly explains how they are not simply a wishlist of parts and features that magically come together. There are always compromises. The unibody construction, along with the decision to make the hard drive and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 28

MacBook Pro Dissected in Stop Motion

We’ve already seen the new MacBook and MacBook Pro dissected, but that’s no longer enough. We’re internet readers. We need larger and larger doses of information injections lest our bodies drop to the floor in Hello Kittyless convulsion. So here’s an entertaining, if not a little superficial, disassembly and reassembly of the new MacBook Pro.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 27

Confirmed: Apple Can Enable Dual GPU and On-the-Fly Switching in MacBook Pro

Nvidia dropped by today to demo some of the awesome things that the GeForce 9400M in the new MacBooks can do that Intel’s integrated graphics just can’t touch, and to discuss a few technical points. Besides confirming that you’ll see it in other notebooks soon, they definitively answered some lingering questions about the chip’s capabilities:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 22

MacBook Nano or iPhone Slate Caught Online, Says NYT

John Markoff at the New York Times has updated his article on a potential Apple netbook-following Steve Jobs’ comments-with an interesting piece of news that reminds me of the first days of the JesusPhone, when an unidentified Apple device was detected for the first time in the traffic logs of some web sites. Markoff even…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 22

Experimental Firefox 3.1 Build Gets Awesome Multitouch Gestures on Macs

Wish you could use some of your MacBook’s fancier touch gestures, like three-finger swipes, in Firefox? Well you can, with a new experimental build of Firefox 3.1 (pre-beta 2) from Mozilla’s Edward Lee. It uses all of the majors—swipe, twist and pinch—in awesomely intuitive ways. Three-finger swipes left and right go back a page and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 22

Dealzmodo: MacBook Air with Parallels $1150

Dealzmodo: New MacBook $200 Off at Fry’s (Update: Too Good to Be True)

MacBook Air Might Go Carbon Fiber to Shed Weight

Giz Bingo Winner Is Now One Pizza Happier

Don’t Fear the Cheap Third-Party Laptop Battery

MacBook Air With Nvidia-Powered H.264 Video Playback Runs Less Toasty

Shipments on New, Entry-Level MacBook Airs Delayed

Stevemail Promises Software Fix for Glitchy MacBook Trackpads

New MacBooks Disable Pwnage Tool, Open Second Front in War on Jailbreaking

Horrible Wife Bakes Old MacBook Cake

MacBook vs MacBook Pro: Hardcore Graphics Death Match

Screen Shootout: MacBook (New) vs. MacBook (Old) vs. MacBook Air

Psystar Working on Ugly-But-Cheap MacBook Clone

Nvidia-Powered MacBook Airs Now Shipping

Axiotron Service Reincarnates Old Macbooks As Shiny New Modbook Tablets

Designing the New MacBook: Why It Couldn’t Have FireWire

MacBook Pro Dissected in Stop Motion

Confirmed: Apple Can Enable Dual GPU and On-the-Fly Switching in MacBook Pro

MacBook Nano or iPhone Slate Caught Online, Says NYT

Experimental Firefox 3.1 Build Gets Awesome Multitouch Gestures on Macs

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