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Rob Galbraith DPI: Revamped MacBook Pro line delivers top-notch display quality

What a difference six months makes. Back in January, we wrote about the suitability of the screens in several notebooks for editing photos in the field. At that time, Apple’s MacBook Pro 15 inch was pegged as being acceptable for this purpose, but barely: hue accuracy trailed the other portables we looked at, while the [...]

Apple officially endorses 8GB of RAM for some 15 inch Unibody MacBooks

AI found Apple unceremoniously selling 8GB kits for its newer model 15-inch Unibody MacBook Pros (not the older 2.5GHz model).  It is the same kit as they sell for the 17-inch unibody Macbooks and it is the same price.  $1200.  If you have to ask…
Not to worry though, hardcore RAM fiends, OWC has the same [...]

Orange to subsidize MacBooks with Mobile Broadband, AT&T to follow?

According to MobileToday, Apple is in the final stages of negotiations to sell their MacBooks subsidized through Orange (presumably in the UK) with a mobile broadband card.  More interestingly, they expect Apple to release a notebook (or netbook) with built in Mobile Broadbnd at some point this summer.

Currently, O2 is the exclusive carrier of [...]

Tablet announced tomorrow?

It basically goes like this:  Apple has said it is increasing its embedded device list this year.  Ten-inch touch screens seem to be flying around Asia en route to Apple for late Summer.  If there is a tablet with resolution independence, developers are going to need a few months to tweak their apps for launch.  [...]

Two possible dates for Apple’s WWDC 2009 emerge

Event bookings for the San Francisco Moscone Center indicate that Apple may be planning its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in either mid-May or early June.
Companies book the Moscone Center venue many months in advance, with Sun’s Java One, Cisco Live!, Linux World, Oracle OpenWorld, and other events already planned for just about every free week [...]

Snow Leopard goes 64 Bit, to be released on June 8th with Stevo?

World of Apple is publishing (naughty, naughty) Apple’s Snow Leopard release notes, below, which include a new Quicktime Player UI, a new Cocoa Desktop, Info Window and Contextual Menus and of course the new Safari 4 Web Browser.  All good news, but there seem to be some big hurdles to overcome by June..June you say?
David [...]

A-DATA 2.5-inch 512GB XPG SSD eyes-on

Although it’s not the first 512GB 2.5-inch SSD we’ve heard of, A-DATA’s latest solid state drive is still in a rare class. We stopped by its booth today to see if the unit was on hand for CeBIT, and sure enough, there she was. We took a few shots and put ‘em down below — [...]

Benchmarks of 2009 iMacs, Mac minis show negligible speed-ups!

Although Apple is touting the performance of its new iMac and Mac mini desktops, a new test shows that newer processors from Intel have had little impact on the computers’ true speed.

Benchmarks run by Primate Labs through its own Geekbench test suite have confirmed that any benefit from the updated Core 2 Duo processors comes [...]

March 24 Apple Event – Now What? Site Down!?

The internets spilled forth a juicy rumor this week that Apple was planning on having an event on March 24. With the Mac releases yesterday, we’re pretty sure if the event happens, it won’t be about them. So what will the rumored event bring us? Let the speculation commence!

I love an Apple event as much [...]

Three updates to Airport Extreme and Time Capsule | 9 to 5 Mac

Apple updated its Time Capsule and Airport Extreme’s with some new features today.  It isn’t yet clear if this is a hardware update or software only – we’re looking into this.  Guest Sharing and Simultaneous dual-band support.   Update: Oh, and a biggie, Internet sharing your Airport hard drive.
From Apple:
Guest Sharing:
Now it’s easier than ever [...]