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 9th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Confirming the rumors, Apple has invited the press to a notebook event on October 14. Looking at the image itself, bbGadgets looked at the image and scaled it to the current MacBook Pro. Apparently, if the Apple logo is 1.5 inches, that laptop is 13.3 inches diagonal (current MacBook dimension.) So could this image be [...]
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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 September 4th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Yesterday, Dell popped out a netbook of its own to jump on the bandwagon made popular by the Asus Eee PC as well as other small notebooks. The Inspiron Mini 9 has an 8.9 inch screen and rocks a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor with either 512MB of RAM or 1GB depending on which model [...]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Well the invitations have been sent, there is an Apple event on September 9th just as rumored. It looks like iPods will be the name of the game, considering there is always an iPod refresh around this time (and the invitation is definitely the iPod style.) Hoepfully, Steve will throw in some new notebooks in [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
The latest rumor floating around today is, of course, about the upcoming redesign to the MacBook line. Apparently, the next MacBook will be made out of just one sheet of aluminum–reducing the weight drastically–and be thinner, also its curves will be similar to the MacBook Air. Also included in the rumored redesign is a glass [...]
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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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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple chopped $500 off the price of the MacBook Air with SSD (solid-state drive). The price drop was not even mentioned on Apple’s home page. The $500 drop, bringing the better Air to a new $2,598, is due to a $100 decrease in the price of the 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo chip and a $400 [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Microsoft’s head honchos Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer gave us a small preview of what Windows 7 will be like last night when speaking to Walt Mossberg at the All Things D (D for Digital) conference. The main feature the two mentioned was multi-touch integration, a-la Microsoft Surface. Basically, picture being able to touch everything [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Asus CEO, Jerry Shen, casually mentioned that there will be a 10-inch version of the Eee PC, but that will be the maximum screen size. An Asus rep later said that the sub-notebook will have Intel’s new Atom processor’s installed in June, at Computex. All in all, it seems that the Eee PC has definitely [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Asus broke through the market invading thousands of homes with its sub-notebook Eee PC 700. The small device has a 7-inch screen, a linux or Windows XP operating system, and other small notebook parts. The main glory of the device is it’s ultra-portability, and Asus is making the Eee an even better notebook. The Asus [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
There are definitely some talented Apple fanboys out there, and one of them did some really great mockups of the supposed upcoming MacBook and MacBook Pro revision. What’s been floating around the web is that the new MacBook line will change its design and feature a new aluminum case, meaning better for the environment, a [...]
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