Archive for the ‘ Macbook Pro ’ Category
President Obama may use a BlackBerry instead of the much superior iPhone, but when it comes to laptops, he’s made the right choice. Obama used a MacBook Pro with the Presidential Seal over the Apple logo while demonstrating healthcare.gov.
Apple’s Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.0, available through Software Update, adds inertial scrolling and three-finger drag gesture support to the following Mac portables:
MacBook
MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009)
MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009)
MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008)
MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53 GHz, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009)
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The Apple online store is down for maintenance. There have been rumors of new iMacs, Mac Pros and a new Cinema Display. We’ll keep you updated on when the store comes back online.
One of the new features in the new MacBook Pros is inertial scrolling, which lets you swipe your fingers up or down on the touchpad and the screen will scroll with momentum depending on how fast or slow you swipe, like the way scrolling is on the iPhone and iPad. The older MacBook Pro touchpads are also capable of inertial scrolling, but we will have to wait and see if Apple decides to come out with an update to enable this function. Or you can get this feature with third party software like Smart Scroll.
Henge Docks has created a pretty cool docking station solution for Apple’s MacBooks and MacBook Pros. I usually like using my laptop screen and a secondary monitor, so this isn’t the best solution for me, but it would be great if I wanted to use my MacBook Pro on my home theater system.
From Henge Docks:
Henge Docks has created the first truly comprehensive docking station solution for Apple’s line of notebook computers. This means you can quickly, easily and cleanly incorporate your MacBook computer into a desktop setup or your home theater system, so you get the best features of a laptop, desktop and media center PC all from one computer. Henge Docks patent-pending design doesn’t require any hardware, software or settings changes to your computer. In fact, every current MacBook is compatible with our system, right from the factory.
iFixit has done a teardown of the mid 2010 MacBook Pro. Here are a few interesting things they discovered.
Apple’s Online Store is back online with new MacBook Pros. The 15″ has been updated with Core i5 and i7 processors, the 17″ only has the i5.
The Apple Store is down this morning, most likely for the MacBook Pro updates that have been rumored lately. Reports suggest that Apple may be using Intel’s new Core i5-520M (2.4 GHz), i5-540M (2.53 GHz) and i7-620M (2.66 GHz) processors.
We’ll keep you updated on this exciting news!
The above screenshot shows part numbers that Microcenter has received for new Mac systems. Sources are saying that these part numbers are real and that we should expect new 15″ and 17″ MacBook Pros very soon.
Apple’s MacBooks are overdue for a refresh with Intel’s latest mobile Nehalem processors. A recent report suggests that this refresh may come soon. The report claims that Apple originally wanted to introduce the updated MacBook line in march, but a limited supply of Intel’s 32 nm Arrandale i7, i5 and i3 processors has delayed the launch. Apparently, the processors will make their way into the MacBook Pro, MacBook and MacBook Air shortly.
There hasn’t been an update to the MacBook Pro since June of 2009, so it’s very possible this rumor could be true.
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