20May2012
Retina-Resolution Displays to Add Up to $100 to Apple’s MacBook Pro Costs
With Apple’s MacBook Pro line now widely rumored to be gaining ultra high-resolution “Retina” or “HiDPI” displays at next month’s Worldwide Developers Conference, CNET reports that such panels are already available in the supply chain and that they carry price premiums of up to $100 over their non-Retina counterparts. But what remains to be seen is whether that price difference will be passed along to consumers or if Apple will find ways to cut costs in other areas in order to
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Production for Slimmer 13-Inch and 15-Inch MacBook Pros Reported
Production for the next-generation MacBook Pro has already begun with shipments to Apple kicking off in March, the sources noted. Monthly shipments will eventually climb to 900,000 units from the 100,000-150,000 units targeted initially, the sources said. The report is very similar to one issued by Digitimes several weeks ago, but the new report offers the explicit claim that production on the new models has indeed
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HP takes aim at Apple’s MacBook Air with new $900 Folio13 Ultrabook
The latest entry in the thin-and-light Ultrabook lineup is HP’s new Folio13, a 13-inch laptop with a 128GB solid-state drive that undercuts Apple’s MacBook Air with a starting price of $ 900. HP’s first “business Ultrabook” is the latest entry in the reference design spearheaded by chipmaker Intel. Ultrabooks aim to compete with Apple’s highly successful MacBook Air lineup, which now represents 28 percent of the company’s notebook shipments. Available
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3G MacBook Pro prototype ‘owner’ gets parts returned to him
Apple has sent back custom-installed parts to the unwitting buyer of a 3G antenna-equipped MacBook Pro prototype, after reclaiming the computer last month. Josh Lowensohn reported for CNet that Carl Frega received back from Apple a hard drive, battery and two sticks of RAM that he had installed in the machine to repair it. Frega, a North Carolina resident, enlisted the help of a friend to post the prototype unit on eBay in August. The unusual laptop quickly attracted interest, with bids
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Joli MacBook Air sleeve review: Luxury, meet luxury
The MacBook Air is a very pretty piece of hardware. For that reason, I’m not too eager to hide it away in just any old sleeve. At the same time, I’m super-paranoid about leaving gadgets out exposed, and thus susceptible to rings from frosty glasses and scratches from a casually discarded set of keys. So basically, I need a sleeve that can match the Air’s sense of style while also providing it with protection. The Joli Originals MacBook Air sleeve might just fit the bill. Joli makes
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Purported MacBook Pro prototype with built-in 3G appears on eBay
An alleged Apple prototype of an older MacBook Pro with built-in 3G cellular data functionality has appeared for sale on eBay, indicating that the company looked into adding wireless data capabilities to its notebooks as early as 2007. According to the auction, the unit is a “one of a kind” pre-production prototype of a 2007 15-inch Santa Rosa MacBook Pro. The laptop’s distinguishing feature is the inclusion of an extendable cellular antenna at the right top side of the
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First look: Apple’s new 11 and 13 inch Thunderbolt MacBook Air
Apple’s new Thunderbolt-enhanced, fourth generation MacBook Air models upgrade the company’s light and thin notebook category with new high-speed connectivity; faster, more powerful Core i5 and i7 processors; faster RAM; larger SSD options, support for Bluetooth 4.0 and a new backlit keyboard. In with the new The new Thunderbolt MacBook Air models now join Apple’s MacBook Pro line in adopting Intel Core i5 and i7 processors rather than previous generations which used Core 2
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Apple MacBook Air gets update
What some deem to be the world’s thinnest notebook (some Apple haters still claim that this is a netbook, although I am inclined to disagree with that assessment even though I am not an Apple fanboy) has just gotten better – and just in case you were wondering how that is possible, why don’t you keep on reading? I’m sure you might even end up looking forward to get hold of the new MacBook Air eventually. Not only does the updated MacBook Air come with next generation processors, it
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Apple’s new MacBook Airs to bring back backlit keyboards – sources
With the release of new models later this month, Apple is set to reinstate a feature to its MacBook Airs that went missing when the company overhauled the ultra-thin notebooks into more cost-affordable products late last year, AppleInsider has learned. According to people familiar with the matter, backlit keyboards will join the string of hardware enhancements planned for the new 11.6- and 13.3-inch notebooks, which are also expected to adopt high-speed Thunderbolt ports, an upgrade to
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Apple’s new MacBook Airs to bring back backlit keyboards – sources
With the release of new models later this month, Apple is set to reinstate a feature to its MacBook Airs that went missing when the company overhauled the ultra-thin notebooks into more cost-affordable products late last year, AppleInsider has learned. According to people familiar with the matter, backlit keyboards will join the string of hardware enhancements planned for the new 11.6- and 13.3-inch notebooks, which are also expected to adopt high-speed Thunderbolt ports, an upgrade to
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