Topic: Apple MacBook Pro

Hey Apple, I'm Not Paying $200 for a Black Keyboard

In an inexplicably poor marketing decision, Apple's new economic Macbook has better specs than it’s ostensibly more powerful companion, the Macbook Pro. The 13" Macbook, retailing at $999, boasts 250 gigs of hard drive space and a ...READ»

Is The MacBook's New Super-Battery Actually Cutting Edge?

The best new feature in Apple's [AAPL] new MacBook Pro is the 8-hour, ultra-durable battery that Apple says it custom-designed. But is it really the advanced powerplant it claims to be? Conventional notebook batteries, or lithium-ion ...READ»

Tech Watch: Apple's MacBook Announcement Eclipses Toshiba's New Notebooks; Warner Reveals DivX Distribution Plans

While Apple's Steve Jobs wowed Mac addicts with the latest versions of the MacBook today, Toshiba quietly announced a roundup of new notebooks. Care to wager on the winner?READ»

What's the Deal With Apple's Non-Removable Batteries?

In an unexpected move on Monday, when everyone was looking at the new iPhones, Apple also tweaked its notebook lineup. Among the changes: The 13-inch MacBook Pro now has a non-removable battery. Why does Apple love to torture us so ...READ»

Goodbye Boxy: Why Future Gadgets Will Be Curvy

In the natural world straight lines are a fairly rare thing. Yet we humans love imposing the hard angles on our constructions and, of course, our gizmos. In the near future this will change, our gadgets will all be curvaceous and ...READ»

How can you give away free gadgets and make money?

It sounds like a crazy business plan: Make money by giving away free gadgets. Any prospective investor would surely run a mile on hearing such a line. However, delve a little deeper and all becomes clear.READ»

Big Awards for the Year's Best Industrial Design

The International Design Excellence Awards were announced yesterday, and represent the 150 best designs among over 1600 entries.READ»

Even SanDisk Is Surprised by MacBook Pro Add-On

"Everyone's surprised by it," admits Eric Bone, a retail VP at SanDisk, the leader in SD cards, when I reached him just after Apple's keynote address wrapped up. Bone did a double take--along with the rest of ...READ»

New MacBook Pro Leaked?

The folks over at Engadget have gotten ahold of what might be a leaked photo of the new Apple [AAPL] MacBook Pro. Mac pundits everywhere have joined a chorus demanding the model's redesign, which is said to be long overdue. If this ...READ»

Has NVIDIA Leaked New MacBook Details?

Rumors have been afire that Apple [AAPL] is coming shortly with new MacBooks and MacBook Pros, the latter of which feel as if they haven't been updated in centuries. Now there's word that a MacBook event is planned for October 14, ...READ»

Apple MacBook Release Official for October 14th

Not much to add to the already-reported rumors of new Apple [AAPL] MacBooks on their way in 5 days, but Apple has finally acknowledged the event by sending out an invitation to special media folks. The event will start at 10AM PST ...READ»

Facebook and Twitter Offer Businesses Opportunities and Challenges

Facebook and Twitter offer businesses both opportunities and challenges around the world: About 60% of users are outside the United States.READ»

• Mr. Social: Ashton Kutcher Plans to be the Next New-Media Mogul

Technology: What's Cooking at Apple?

When unfulfilled Apple rumors don't die, there's usually a good reason. Having moved on from the iPhone, the tech rumor mill is now churning up new whispers of a game-changing Apple product: an ultra-thin MacBook. Ultra-thin laptops ...READ»

Technology: Sharing Breakfast

Yesterday was a fantastic day. :D I got to meet Kfir Pravda, who was here for a few hours in NYC Friday morning awaiting his connecting flight to Israel. I was familiar with Kfir from blogging as well as our involvement with the ...READ»

Technology: Sharing Breakfast

Yesterday was a fantastic day. :D I got to meet Kfir Pravda, who was here for a few hours in NYC Friday morning awaiting his connecting flight to Israel. I was familiar with Kfir from blogging as well as our involvement with the ...READ»

MacBook Pro's Solid State Drive Climbs Everest Without Breaking a Sweat

Solid-state drives are taking over the world, and for good reason. They're tiny, and consume very little power. But there's one benefit that often goes unnoticed: Since they don't rely on the delicate moving parts of typical hard ...READ»

iFive: Amazon's Jeff Bezos Gets to Work, Austin Shares Smart Cars, and 50 Cent Isn't Twittering? in Today's Innovation News

While you were sleeping, innovation worked a double shift, popped a couple of brewskis, and then fell asleep in his work clothes. Here's today's innovation news: The family can stop worrying: Jeff Bezos got a warehouse job in ...READ»

Three Crowd-Powered Sites Offer Killer Deals on... Everything

As our nationwide economic turbulence continues, discount Web sites are proliferating. They don't rely on the typical economic mechanisms to get their customers deals--they're not about razor-thin margins, or closeouts, or ...READ»

Apple's Snow Leopard Is an Unlikely Green Beast

Apple's Snow Leopard upgrade to OS X has many subtle behind the scenes powers that assure it'll remain cutting edge for a good while, but it also seems to have unexpected green skills: It could save the world 50GigaWatts of ...READ»

Apple MacBook Rumors Intensify

As we reported last week on this blog, a number of industry rumors point to October 14th as a drop date for the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros from Apple [AAPL]. Rumors out of Nvidia [NVDA] seemed to confirm that date, as a graphics ...READ»

MacWorld 2009 Rumor Round-Up

With the doors of the Moscone center in San Francisco soon to burst open upon a Jobs-less Macworld 2009, the Internets are predictably alive with rumors--some more believable, some less believable, some just stuffed with desperate ...READ»

2006 Review of Business Innovation, Digital Media and Trends

Will Paris Hilton's new cosmetics line survive her bad girl image? Will the Zune be a threat to the iPod? These were just a few of this year's business questions to be answered. Here we review ten business innovations, digital media products, and trends from 2006.READ»

Feedback

Open Season on Apple We knew we'd get a spirited response to our December 2007/January 2008 cover story on the future of Apple. And the iAcolytes didn't disappoint, reading our assessment of the company's multifront battles line by ...READ»

• A Laptop in Every Pot

Why The 15-Inch MacBook Air Rumor Makes Sense

It's major rumor-month for Apple products, and the latest that's hitting the internets suggests that there's a 15-inch version of the super-skinny MacBook Air on the way. This rumor even gets a little credibility from its source--a ...READ»

So Which Rumored Apple Gizmos Didn't Surface Last Week?

It's been a week now since Phil Schiller's first and last keynote speech for Apple at MacWorld, and now that the hype has come and gone, we can look at which of the supposedly "hot" rumored products surfaced, which didn't, and which ...READ»