Tag Archive | "Macbook Pro"
Obama demos Healthcare.gov using a MacBook Pro
President Barack Obama may still use a BlackBerry, but when it comes to hardware, he’s a Mac man. In fact, when Obama and his team moved into the White House, his staffers, used to using Macs, were shocked to see a setup of old PC’s running 6 year old Microsoft software. In a recent video [...]
Continue reading...The Magical MacBook Pro [Photo]
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
An unheralded feature of the MacBook Pro – Optical illusions! via Crunched
Continue reading...Street Fighter meets MacBook Pro
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
I can still remember the first time I ever played the videogame Street Fighter. Well, I can’t exactly remember the year (I think it was 91/92) but I do remember where I was – at the now defunct Boblo Island Amusement Park. Anyways, I sauntered into the arcade area after some water slide action and was [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on why the new 13-inch MacBook Pro still uses an Intel Core 2 Duo
Thursday, April 15, 2010
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Steve Jobs was up to his email tricks yet again this week when he responded to a user email inquiring about why the new 13-inch MacBook Pro still uses the Intel Core 2 Duo as opposed to the newer and faster Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. Turns out Apple was more concerned with graphics [...]
Continue reading...Benchmarking the 15-inch MacBook Pro i7, it’s a speed demon
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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The new MacBook Pro’s are fast. So much so that Gizmodo was blown away by the results of their benchmarking tests when comparing the new 2.66 Ghz i7 15-inch MacBook Pro against the previous generation’s 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo. GeekBench results? Blazing! Xbench? As Homer might say, “It’s still good, it’s still good.” And now [...]
Continue reading...Apple updates MacBook Pro lineup
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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Apple on Tuesday revamped its lineup of MacBook Pro’s with speedy Intel Core i5 and i7 processors (on the 15 and 17 inch models), high-res displays, intertial scrolling, backlit keyboards and improved battery life across the board. And as for specs, here’s what we got. The 13-inch MacBook Pro now starts at $1199 and comes with [...]
Continue reading...Taiwanese Apple Paper claims Apple to refresh entire MacBook line in April
Monday, April 5, 2010
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A fresh report coming out of the Chinese Language Taiwan Apple Daily reports that Apple will soon be refreshing the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and the MacBook Air sometime later this month. Refreshes of Apple’s notebook line have reportedly taken longer than expected due to unforeseen shortages of Intel’s newest processors. A rough translation of the [...]
Continue reading...Pauly D from “Jersey Shore” is a Mac fan
Monday, March 1, 2010
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Pauly D, the famed “Guido” from MTV’s Jersey Shore is a full-time DJ who likes to get his Mac on. Check out this tweet he sent out a few days ago. And here’s DJ Pauly D working the wheels of steel at a club in Vegas. Note the MacBook Pro’s.
Continue reading...Israeli Airport Security pop a few caps into a MacBook Pro
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
If there’s one security force you don’t want to mess with, or at least take any chances with, it’s Israeli security. A point one girl unfortunately had to learn the hard waywhen Israeli airport security dropped a few bullets into her MacBook Pro thinking it might be a bomb. I went inside to check on [...]
Continue reading...And they say that Apple’s a cult…
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Apple detractors like to label the Mac faithful as cult-like, and I’m sure the above photo sort of lends some credence to their position. Except, of course, for that bull sitting in the middle of the photo -he’s obviously a free thinker. All kidding aside, the photo above features University of South Florida athletes sporting [...]
Continue reading...Ice T destroys a MacBook Pro with a hammer [Video]
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Check out this video of Ice T pulling a 187 on this 5-6 year old MacBook Pro. He straight guts it with a hammer while his wife CoCo films it and laughs along awkwardly.
Continue reading...Apple heeds customer complaints, contemplates adding anti-glare to glossy screens
Thursday, July 16, 2009
When Apple introduced glossy screens as the default screen across its entire product line, graphics and video professionals groaned. Glossy screens, they argued, came with a glare that often times made getting things done a challenging proposition when working in lit areas. Apple, however, touted how the new glossy screens had colors that simply “popped” [...]
Continue reading...Apple expected to report stellar earnings next week
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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Apple’s next earnings conference call is scheduled to take place on Tuesday July 21, 2009 and initial rumblings suggest that Apple is going to announce a blowout quarter. In a televised segment for CNBC last Friday, Jim Cramer predicted that Apple will report numbers that will “blow your socks off.” Take that one for what [...]
Continue reading...Report: Apple having trouble keeping up with demand for new 13-inch MacBook Pro
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
AppleInsider brings to light a note to investors from analyst Gene Munster which highlights just how quickly Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Pro seems to be flying off the shelves – resulting in Apple struggling to keep up with demand. In a recent note to investors, Munster noted that the wait time on the Apple online [...]
Continue reading...Trouble in Paradise for Apple and NVIDIA?
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Apple’s inclusion of NVIDIA graphics chips in its products might soon be coming to an end, according to a recent report in SemiAccurate. Word has it that during negotiations, NVIDIA’s demands were so outrageous and “arrogant” that Apple kicked them to the curb, so to speak. While details surrounding NVIDIA and Apple’s supposed falling out [...]
Continue reading...New MacBook Pro battery life is “to die for”, with 15-inch model hitting 8 hours
Sunday, June 14, 2009
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During last weeks WWDC keynote, Phil Schiller announced that Apple was making significant changes to its fleet of notebooks, chief among them the inclusion of a non-removable battery across its MacBook Pro line. As has been explained by Apple before, removing the mechanics involved to make a battery removable frees up space to allow for [...]
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Monday, August 2, 2010
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