Tag archive: MacBook

According to new information from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, tablet ownership has jumped from about 1 out of every 10 Americans to approximately 19 percent. The previous study was conducted around the middle of December, thus the massive increase in tablet ownership can likely be attributed to the holiday shopping season. While Apple's iPad definitely helped boost that percentage, less expensive tablets… Read More

The battle over which data cable standard will dominate in the years ahead is beginning to heat up. With USB 3.0 beginning to take off, the fate of Intel's high-speed Thunderbolt port has been under scrutiny as of late. Everything runs on USB and though Apple has been a huge proponent of the new Thunderbolt port, including it as one of the only ports on its entire line of MacBook computers, support from the world's most popular tech… Read More

First reported by Want China Times earlier today, chairman Terry Gou was meeting with senior managers and stated “”Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.” Hon Hai is the parent company of Foxconn, the company responsible for creating the majority of iPhones and iPads for Apple. Gou also stated that he would like to learn… Read More

You can hook up monitors to your MacBook laptops for more screen space to tool around or just to make your screen much larger. We'll show you how to hook up a second monitor to your laptop and we'll also discuss mirroring which lets you use the same mouse and keyboard on both screens.  You can use both monitors together or you can just make the larger new monitor your main screen. Hooking up the monitor: 1. You'll need a couple… Read More

Apple has filed two patents with the US Patent and Trademark Office that suggest the electronics giant is developing hydrogen fuel-cell batteries for its MacBook lines in an attempt to use more environmentally-friendly ways to power its creations. First uncovered by AppleInsider, the pair of patents (1, 2) explain that the batteries would not only be better for Mother Nature, but could also last “for days or even weeks” on a single… Read More

Occasionally, you want a reset on your computer. You may want to do so to update your operating system or to help in installing new hardware.  Note: Before you start with your restore you'll want to back up any information that you want saved to a flash drive or external hard drive. The install process for Macs allows you to transfer current files to the fresh OS. However, things do go wrong from time to time so we recommend that you back… Read More

According to a survey conducted by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, the research firm found that 30 percent of iPhone 4S owners upgraded from the iPhone 4. Since the iPhone 4 was released during June 2010, anyone upgrading to the iPhone 4S approximately 16 months later would be subject to the early termination fee issued by wireless service providers like Verizon and AT&T. For instance, the early termination fee on smartphones for… Read More

Expanding on the brand's current collection, Incase launched several new designs in the Andy Warhol artist collection this week. The products stick to the brand's simplistic and functional designs for protecting your beloved Apple products, like the iPhone 4 Snap Case, the Book Jacket for the iPad 2, and three different sizes of neoprene sleeves for your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. The products are available from the collection in a… Read More

Say what you want about Apple, but it's clever. The company helped pioneer the use of aluminum laptop shells in its MacBooks back in 2008. Now that superthin, Mac-like Ultrabooks are becoming the trend, the rest of the industry needs a strong, lightweight substance like aluminum to build the .8-inch thick designs Intel is pushing for. Problem is, Apple has secured a majority of the aluminum and the factories that manufacture it for… Read More

Apple today released its new line of MacBook Air laptops, along with OS X Lion, a new Mac mini and new displays that connect via the ultra-fast Thunderbolt port from Intel. Noticeably absent from Apple's computer lineup, however, is the now-iconic white MacBook, which has officially been discontinued. Observers noticed the absence of the MacBook from the online Apple Store, which now only lists the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, iMac… Read More

The Cinema Display is back, with a new name. Today, Apple has announced an external display for its line of MacBook laptops. Called the Thunderbolt Display, the new dock/external monitor can connect up to newer MacBooks via Intel's high speed Thunderbolt port, which can achieve speeds of 10Gbps, giving users a lot more space to play around on–27 inches of LED screen space, to be exact. The display has a 16:9 aspect ratio and, though… Read More

Reports that Apple would release the new version of its ultra-thin MacBook Air laptop this week are wrong, says John Paczkowski at All Things Digital. The new MacBook Air model is actually coming next week, according to “several sources” who spoke with Paczkowski. Rumors about the imminent release of new MacBook Airs have been floating around for some time. At the end of June, Best Buy halted all shipments of MacBook Air orders,… Read More

Apple has surpassed Acer and Toshiba to become the third largest PC retailer in the US, reports Mashable. According to numbers from market research firm Gartner, that puts the Mac maker just behind Hewlett Packard and Dell. During the second quarter of 2011, sales of Apple computers grew 8.5 percent year-over-year to give the company a 10.7 percent market share, reports Gartner. That compares to the Cupertino, California-based company's… Read More

It's become evident in the last month or so that an update to Apple's popular MacBook Air laptops is likely just around the corner. Releasing newer, updated models around this time of year would be in keeping with the company's prior patterns, and rumors have been coming at us left and right. Something else that has bolstered these rumors is the fact that Best Buy is no longer shipping the most popular MacBook Air models. The… Read More