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Apple/NVIDIA Rift to Spark Major Component Changes?

July 2, 2009

The Apple Blog / Darrell Etherington

If you bought a MacBook Pro between May 2007 and September 2008, you might be painfully aware of NVIDIA’s major screw-up in providing fundamentally faulty 8600M GT graphics processors for Apple ...

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Colorware offers up $6,000 Stealth MacBook Pro: it's really dark

July 4, 2009

Engadget / Darren Murph

Colorware's well known for offering up all sorts of consumer electronics in all sorts of hues, but the outfit has definitely stepped up its game with the Stealth MacBook Pro.

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The Laptop, Circa 1968

July 4, 2009

Technologizer / Harry McCracken

In 2009, portability is the default state of affairs with computers, since laptops outsell desktop PCs.

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Psystar emerges from bankruptcy ready to sell a Core i7 Mac Pro clone

July 2, 2009

CrunchGear / Matt Burns

And you thought that Apple finally drove the front running clone maker off of a cliff. Nope. Psystar successfully navigated the bankruptcy courts and is back at its old game of annoying Apple.

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Extreme Computer Addictions - 10 Images of the Severely Internet Obsessed (GALLERY)

July 4, 2009

Trend Hunter

(TrendHunter.com) Have you ever thought about the role your computer plays in your daily life? Have you ever paid attention to the amount of hours you've spent in front of your desktop or laptop?

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Toshiba Satellite A355-S6924 16.0-Inch Laptop for $599.99

July 5, 2009

Retail Retreat

2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 processor 4 GB RAM (max) 250 GB hard drive, Labelflash dual-layer DVD drive Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 (64-bit version) 16-inch screen, 16:9 aspect ratio and ...

Somewhere Over The #moonfruit

July 5, 2009

jarkolicious / Haslina Ali

As of the past 96 hours (give or take a few hours), Twitter has been in full-blown #moonfruit mania, giving rise to a frequently asked question common to many Twitter trends: what the hell is ...

New MBP offers top display quality, but some beg to differ

July 4, 2009

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) / Michael Rose

Filed under: Macbook Pro For pro photographers who care about color fidelity on a laptop screen, there's good news from Rob Galbraith on the revamped MacBook Pro line: the new laptops offer improved ...

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Dell to add Wi-Fi enabled GPS card into its notebooks

July 2, 2009

Gizmo Watch / Bharat

GPS navigation on almost all devices seems a new trend. Are we getting lost with the new tech, or is it for the convenience if we ever do, is difficult to sum up at the moment.

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Luggable 75 lb "laptop" from 1968

July 4, 2009

Boing Boing / Cory Doctorow

Harry sez, "Computers weren't portable in 1968 (they tended to fill entire rooms), but even then, the yen for portable computing was there.

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Gemsta Viva is a Vaio P clone from China

July 4, 2009

Gizmo Watch / Bharat

When we first saw pictures of the Lenovo Pocket Yoga, an ultra-portable PC, we thought Sony’s Vaio P was under theat.

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My Laptop Dreams Have Come True!

July 3, 2009

Vegan Lunch Box / Jennifershmoo (noreply@blogger.com)

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Levertigo laptop bag for 13-inchers

July 2, 2009

Boing Boing Gadgets / Rob Beschizza

Be.ez's new Levertigo bags are nice shoulder slung models made of recycled materials, out today for 13" laptops like you know what. Reminder: we're holding a be.

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Stealth MacBook Pro

July 2, 2009

Uncrate

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The correct way to use your MacBook's battery

July 2, 2009

ZDNet Blogs / Jason D. O'Grady

Recently a battery completely failed in a two-year old black 2.16GHz MacBook that was covered under AppleCare. It worked fine one day, went completely dead the next.

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New “MacBook Pro lineup offers the best displays for photographers”

July 2, 2009

Apple Hot News

Praising the “superb colour-accurate displays” found on the new MacBook Pro computers, Rob Galbraith (robgalbraith.

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MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009): How to use the 3.5mm analog jack for an audio input device

July 2, 2009

Apple Support - Most Recent Articles

Release date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:18:00 GMT

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MacBook Pro (Mid 2009): Multiple noises from the optical disc drive on startup or waking from sleep

July 2, 2009

Apple Support - Most Recent Articles

Release date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:23:00 GMT

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NEC LaVie Light Lui Mobile WiMAX Netbook

July 2, 2009

iTech News Net / Sze

NEC adds to its LaVie Light series the LaVie Light Lui Mobile that is equipped with option WiMAX connectivity. As a netbook, the configuration is pretty standard sporting an Intel Atom N28- 1.

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Blackest black meet blackest Mac

July 2, 2009

Boing Boing Gadgets / Rob Beschizza

Colorware's Stealth MacBook Pro is a top of the line 15" model with a 256 HB solid state drive, a 3 GHz CPU and a custom matte display that's not available in official models.

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Archos announces release details for mini PC range

July 2, 2009

Tech Digest / plamkin

Archos has officially announced its latest mini PC range, although we told you all about them last month. See our original post for the full specs - we're far too lazy to type it all out again.

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Cheap, Thin Laptops Suffering From Cheapness, Thinness [Notebooks]

July 2, 2009

Gizmodo / John Herrman

The new litter of thin, cheap laptops, as we've seen from Lenovo and Dell, is inherently charming, making the experience of using a cheap, portable laptop bearable for people put off by netbook ...

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ColorWare Stealth MacBook Pro

July 2, 2009

Digital Trends

Fear not, nerds of the night. The black MacBook Pro has returned. Well, sort of.

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Apple MacBook Sales Yo-Yo With the Economy

July 2, 2009

internetnews.com

Whether they are up or down, MacBook sales have one thing in common: they go in a big way.

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LOVE N DANCING Watch For Free

July 4, 2009

cmsInfo - content now. / barbuba12

http://tinyurl.com/dm5ok3 A dejected English teacher and a former West Coast Swing Dance attempting to overcome the obstacles in their lives and win the world title in this romantic dance drama ...

Netbooks Power The Ultimate Road Warriors

July 4, 2009

Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights Blog and Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image

In a world where my office is more often than not an aisle seat at 35,000 feet, I spend my days trying to do more with less. Ultraportable laptops make sense for someone like me.

Just two staff... so why did MP Fabian Hamilton need 11 laptops in four years?

July 4, 2009

Just two staff... so why did MP Fabian Hamilton need 11 laptops in four years?

Rivet VERTICAL LEATHER BAG For Apple MacBook Pro 15″ – Review

July 4, 2009

Gear Diary / Dan Cohen

Some people like shoes while others like jackets. Me… I’ve always had a thing for notebook cases.

Week in Apple: Steve Jobs is back, Newton bugs, and lawsuits

July 4, 2009

Apple Section - Ars Technica / jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)

July is finally here, proving that the world of Apple can in fact keep turning while Steve Jobs is away. This week's top Apple news examined the adoption rate of iPhone OS 3.

Eee PC 1101HA Can Be OverClocked By 32%

July 4, 2009

TechLime / Sapna

Netbook Italia just got their hands on a spunking new Eee PC 1101HA. And guess what they’ve found out?

Asus ET1602: The final chapter in the night garden

July 4, 2009

Electricpig.co.uk / Emma Hill

My husband went outside this evening with his laptop to work, I eyed up ET and thought “Ohhh can you go outside?

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