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The MacBook Pro refresh feels exactly what you’d imagine it to feel like from the images in our liveblog. The screen is bright and goes almost right up against the edge of the display portion of the top. The keyboard is similar to the MacBook Air and has the now-standard Apple separation between keys. Trackpad…
As you may be aware, I’m a Windows guy. I’m not diehard about it, however. When the time comes for me to get a new laptop in the next year or so, I’ll be open to switching, making me Apple’s target market. But there’s one big reason that is holding me back from making that…
On the lack of BD drives in the new Mac notebooks, quoth Jobs: Blu-ray is a bag of hurt. I don’t mean from the consumer point of view. It’s great to watch movies, but the licensing is so complex. We’re waiting until things settle down, and waiting until Blu-ray takes off before we burden our…
Joining the MacBook Pro, Apple’s MacBooks, their best-selling mac ever, also received a complete hardware re-tooling today, with rejuvenated hardware packed inside a brand-new aluminum case, thus putting one of the final stakes in the heart of white and black plastic in the computer line (the original plastic MacBook is still available, at a reduced…
As it turns out, the last minute rumor was correct about Apple adding a 24-inch Cinema Display to their stable of 20, 23 and 30 inch versions. The twist here is that the new version adds an LED backlight and built-in iSight with mic, 1920×1200 resolution, built-in stereo speakers, and 3 port usb hub. Plus…
Besides revealing that the MacBook Air was in fact the first notebook built with the precision aluminum manufacturing process, nothing too fresh, just its first (overdue) spec bump since coming out in January, making it faster and roomier. The SSD model has also dropped down to $2500. https://gizmodo.com/how-the-macbooks-are-carved-out-of-solid-aluminum-5063227 Graphics are now 4x faster, thanks to…
One of the biggest new features in the new MacBooks that Apple just unveiled is the glass trackpad, one that ditches the button in favor of turning the entire trackpad into a button. It also works with a bunch of new gestures, using up to four fingers to make doing things like switching between applications…
The new MacBook Pro 2008 is, at last, the worthy successor to the mythical PowerBook Titanium. From its new design-with an iMac-style glass screen, smooth Air-style surfaces, and no-button trackpad-to its guts-with new processors and both an Nvidia GeForce 9400M and 9600M GT-it’s a pretty impressive machine. Full specs and details after the jump. The…
Apple has confirmed their new way to make laptops in the new MacBook 2008 line-up. Previously, manufacturers-including Apple-would add layers to form a body, welding each of them to give the laptop rigidity. Now, they have changed the whole game: instead of adding pieces, they will eliminate matter from solid pieces of aluminum using lasers…
We’re here at Cupertino to bring you the full blow-by-blow of today’s Apple MacBook Event. Keep up with our liveblog at live.gizmodo.com. It’ll automatically refresh for you, but if the system just isn’t fast enough then F5 to your heart’s content. After all, you never know when John Mayer could show up. Oh, and there…
The October 14 Apple MacBook event liveblog archive. Jason Chen: Apple’s MacBook event starts Tuesday Oct. 14 at 10:00 AM Pacific. Check back early Tuesday for coverage! 10:03 pm ON Oct 10 2008 Jason Chen: Don’t forget to check out our MacBook Event Bingo, where you can have fun AND win a free pizza. 1:10…
The new MacBook 2008 line-up. Oh yes. At last, after all this endless waiting, we are just a few hours away from the Apple MacBook 2008 event in which His Steveness will show the new wonderbooks to the world. We have already told you what to expect and showed you how the MacBook Pro looks…
Depending on your point of view, gutting a vintage 1942 Philco radio to install a Mac Mini, 17-inch Sony touchscreen, a Sony DVD/CD/receiver with a 2.1 speaker system, and EyeTV for recording shows could be considered an upgrade or an unforgivable sin. Either way, Grandma will have the most badass system in the retirement home.…
In the market for some Neutrogena Oil-Free Acne Wash? Also in the market for some low-end earbuds? Weird! This combo, found at a Target, is apparently designed for you and your completely irreconcilable needs. Seriously, which genius marketer came up with this idea? [Consumerist]
I’m glad I had my tonsils out years ago, or this would make me think twice about it. A 76-year-old man admitted to the hospital in Chiba, Japan, for respiratory failure was about to have a new tube implanted in his trachea when the one already in there caught fire as the doctor cut into…
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) has become one of the biggest challenges for soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan—shockwaves caused by IEDs and rocket-propelled grenades can cause serious damage that is at times nearly impossible to diagnose. DARPA hopes to change that with a disposable strip being developed by the Palo Alto Research Center, its circuits…
On basically the worst day of the year to launch a new notebook, Toshiba’s ultraportable Portégé R600 actually holds its own, though not quite as comely as Voodoo’s Envy, but you do get a bona-fide DVD-SuperMulti drive in the world’s lightest computer with two spindles. The successor to Toshiba’s formerly most awesome laptop, the Portege…
You know it’s wrong, but you just can’t help it. When your cellphone rings in the car you are compelled to answer it. New software called DriveAssistT (The extra “T” is…a silent nod to Mr. T?) aims to save you from yourself by automatically holding all of your calls when it detects that the phone…
You know those dumb beer apps for the iPhone, the ones that make your phone look like it’s a glass of beer that empties as you tip it? They’re a total useless gimmick, and because of that, very popular. At first, there was just the iBeer app, created by indie developer Hottrix, who had the…
Really Nvidia, what the hell? After steadfastly arguing that its defective graphics cards were limited to notebooks only—they’ve even sent me a lovely email or two reiterating that claim—HP has just confirmed that 38 different desktop models are plagued with faulty Nvidia graphics cards. This is on the heels of Apple concluding that MacBook Pros…
