Posted on February 24th, 2009 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple released a beta version of Safari 4 today, with new features grabbed from Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers. Taken from Chrome include moving tabs above the address bar, adding a top sites page, among other speed based improvements. From Firefox: the address bar now grabs from history and bookmarks and displays the most [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Daniel Ahdout
This year marks my third for attending the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a few of you might already know, my father is the almighty Yahya Ahdout, the owner and CEO of dreamGEAR, a video game/iPod accessory and speaker producer and distributor, and he is my ticket into this amazing show. You [...]
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Posted on November 16th, 2008 by Daniel Ahdout
So, you are playing around on your pre-October 2008 Apple laptop. You really want the awesome new 4-Finger Gestures, but you don’t want to buy a brand new computer for them. MacRumors forum member michaelb showed us the trick, which he tried on an original MacBook Air; supposedly, it also works on other MacBooks, most [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2008 by Daniel Ahdout
For all of you who have been waiting, Intel’s new micro-architecture sporting 45nm Core i7 (aka Nehalem) chip has unofficially gone on sale in certain stores today. Many including myself have been waiting a long time for this and are glad that it is finally here.
Reviews and benchmarks of the retail chips will be posted soon!
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
During a developer conference held this week, Microsoft showed off Windows 7, they’re attempt to help the Windows name after the failure that is Vista. From the screenshots, it looks nice, and that’s coming from one of the biggest Apple fanboys you could find. Besides showing the new operating system off, the company gave developers [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple’s “Spotlight on Notebooks” event was held today and with it came exactly what was expected. Both the MacBook and MacBook Pro received updates. First, Jony Ive spoke about the new “brick” manufacturing process. Exactly like what we had heard, the brick manufacturing simply means that the computer starts as a single block of aluminum [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
“The spotlight turns to notebooks.”
With Apple’s notebook event starting in almost 10 hours, its only fitting that we roundup the most recent rumors and give you a spotlight of where to go for coverage.
COVERAGE:
As with normal Apple event coverage, check out Engadget and Live.Gizmodo for live up-to-the-second coverage. Besides those two live sources, MacRumors will [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Rumors have been flying around for months about Apple refreshing their MacBook and MacBook Pro lines in design orientated way. Neither the MacBook nor the MacBook Pro has faced major design and style changes since each products respective introductions back in May and January of 2006. Since the end of last year, rumors popped up [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Daniel Ahdout
While configuring the HP Blackbird 002 on HP’s website, I noticed that the unreleased, unannounced NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT was an option in configuring the Blackbird 002. The card supposedly has 512MB GDDR3 of SDRAM, but no other information about the card is listed. Maybe it could just be a stupid mistake and the card is [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
MacBook touch: no this picture isn’t real, but it’s a great mockup of what a product could look like. (courtesy of Gizmodo)
Apple had its quarterly earnings call on Monday and it revealed that a “product transition” would lower gross margin next quarter because “Apple makes state of the art new products that the competition just [...]
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