Apple unveils “the thinnest notebook in the world” - the MacBook Air. Apple went and looked at most of the thinnest notebooks - Sony TZ series, for example and tried to distill the best of all of them –
~3 lbs
0.16 to 0.76 inches thin, 12.8 inches wide and 8.95 inches deep
13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display that has a 1280 × 800 pixel resolution
full sized MacBook-style black keyboard with Ambient light sensor
built-in iSight
multi-touch trackpad (Move a window by double-tap and move. Rotate a photo by pivoting your index finger around your thumb)
80GB drive as standard, 64GB SSD as an option
1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo as standard chip which operates with 4MB of on-chip shared L2 cache running at full processor speed, and uses an 800MHz frontside bus (1.8 GHz as an upgrade)
In a rather rare and surprising pre-Macworld Expo move (Macworld Expo 2008 will be from January 15 to 18 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco), Apple unveiled a retooled Mac Pro Desktop machine and a new Xserve server - calling them the fastest Macs ever. The ultra-end Mac Pro features Advanced Micro Devices ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card with 256MB standard memory. The new 45-nanometer quad-core Xeon processor from Intel, can be equipped with up to 32GB of RAM and as much as 4TB of Disc Drive Storage.
More power with less power
Inside the new Mac Pro is the latest technology from Intel - Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors. These processors run at blazingly fast speeds up to 3.2GHz.
You still don’t have Leopard!
And, you purchased a qualifying Macintosh Computer on or after October 1, 2007, then you can get a Free upgrade to Apple’s latest OS X 10.5 - Leopard. The offer is valid till 26th January, 2008. Read the article in full …
Most Leopard users were frustrated with the issue that MacBook and MacBook Pro systems occasionally experience a temporary suspension of keyboard input which can last a minute or longer.
Apple have released a MacBook Pro Software Update 1.1 which fixes the responsiveness issue on MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers.
The Mac OS X 10.5.1 update is required before installing the MacBook, MacBook Pro Software Update 1.1.
USA Today have a nice article - Thinking of switching to a Mac? Here’s why you might - which is worth a read if you’re planning to switch to a Mac or just love the Mac. The author, Edward C. Baig is a Mac guy but he do not believe in bashing Windows being a prerequisite for a Mac user. So, the article is a primer on switching to the Mac. He promises to come back next week with advice for folks who plan on sticking with Windows. Read the article in full …
Last December, Mac users around the world participated in what became to be known as the most explosive Mac indie software event in history - MacHeist. Tens of thousands of users participated in MacHeist missions, discovering clues, solving puzzles, and winning free software prizes. And when the fuse ran out, the best software deal in Mac history was unveiled.
Over the course of a week, over 16,000 customers snapped up the bundle. With 25% of each sale going to a charity of the customer’s choice, the event ended up raising $200,000 for important causes.
In a rather rare and surprising pre-Macworld Expo move (
Most Leopard users were frustrated with the issue that MacBook and MacBook Pro systems occasionally experience a temporary suspension of keyboard input which can last a minute or longer.
Last December, Mac users around the world participated in what became to be known as the most explosive Mac indie software event in history -