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5Words for February 19th, 2009

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Wanna hear this morning’s news? The Pre will have games. Dell attacks Psion’s “Netbook” trademark. iPhone turn-by-turn GPS. Yelp accused: Suppressing negative reviews? Dismantling 17-inch MacBook Pro. $50 for unlimited phone calls. Google demos iPhone offline Gmail. Dell debuts Mini 10 Netbook. Google Street View case dismissed. Lenovo making jumbo-sized netbooks? Sprint loses a million customers.

Is the World Ready For Sealed Notebook Batteries? Are You?

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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When Apple used yesterday’s Macworld Expo keynote to confirm rumors that the new 17-inch MacBook Pro would have a sealed battery, it laid the news on the audience gingerly. The keynote included a rather lengthy video in which Apple engineers discussed the new laptop’s sophisticated battery. In between sound bites on its impressive chemistry, long [...]

17-inch MacBook Pro Coming

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Along with the other announcements from what has been a really low-key keynote is a new 17-inch MacBook Pro model. Inside will be Core 2 Duo up to 2.93-GHZ and up to 8GB of RAM. Dual GeForce graphics will be standard as well as a 320GB HDD. Biggest news here? The battery within the laptop [...]

First Take: MacBook Pro

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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Those spy shots we’ve been seeing were real — as promised the new MacBook Pro came with a new unibody aluminum enclosure, switching out the old silver buttoned keyboard for one closer to that of the current MacBooks. Gone is the trackpad button as well, meaning Apple is ready to bring the finger gestures that [...]

Operation Foxbook: Livin’ Small With the HP Mini-Note

Friday, September 26, 2008

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Operation Foxbook–my experiment of dumping my MacBook Pro and desktop apps for an HP Mini-Note netbook and Web-based apps within Firefox–continues apace. And the hardware side of things is turning out to have as big an impact on the experience as the software aspect. The MacBook Pro I use most of the time is relatively thin [...]