Articles tagged with: macbook

Another one for the rumour pile this – Apple is planning on dropping the MacBook Air’s weight by replacing its underside with new a carbon-fibre design.

That, at least, is the measured estimation of Kasper Jade over at AppleInsider – the source of this latest rumour. Jade reckons Apple is unsatisfired with current MacBook Air’s weight and wishes to drop it below 3lbs (or 1,363 grams, metric chums). So is there any substance to Jade’s claims? We’ll consider that after the cut.

When the most anticipated aspect of a new laptop is what it looks like, it can only be a new laptop from Apple. After all, when did a website last run leaked photos of a new laptop chassis from Dell..?

To be fair, the external design of the new Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro is a little bit special, largely because of the manufacturing process behind it. Both the MacBook and MacBook Pro have cases that are carved from a single block of aluminium and assembled from three (or four, if you count the battery cover) single pieces. We’ll leave aside any potential strength advantages that this new “unibody” design bestows and focus on something much more interesting instead – how it looks.

..and one fewer 'M' if you please. Seems quality control has gone a little off over at Apple with grumbles over loose battery and hard drive covers and wonky function keys on those shiny new MacBooks. But this picture shows an altogether more bizarre problem - two 'M' keys, and, er, no 'B'.

The loose battery cover issue does seem to be genuinely affecting some MacBooks - as this video shows - but we're not sure someone hasn't used a touch of Photoshop clone magic on that keyboard there, as others have done with this image.

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As part of our testing of the new "unibody" Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops, we installed Windows Vista via Boot Camp so that we could run our standard set of PC benchmarks. Both laptops run Vista quite happily and the bundled MacOS X DVD installs the necessary drivers. So far, so good...

The folks over at CrunchGear have come up with five reasons for why damaging a MacBook "is a worse idea now than ever before". Go read them, then come back here and read why we think every single one of their 'reasons' is stupid. Not to mention how they overlooked the best reason of all to not damage a new MacBook...

Apple didn’t hold a UK launch event to coincide with the one in the US yesterday, but it has now shipped out the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models for review.

We’ll post full reviews of both models in the next few days, but in the meantime, here’s a hands-on video with the MacBook.

Although Apple won't be showing us its wares here till later, news of Apple's latest unveiling was already flashing on screens in Canary Wharf's Canada Square where your intrepid reporter had decamped for the evening.

The headline there was a cut-price $999 MacBook (£719 here!) - not quite the $899 or even $799 that some had hoped for but no doubt some welcome relief for those few staff left kicking around in the empty offices of Lehman Brothers UK who still have some of last year's bonus left to spend. The fact that it was simply a new version of the old $1099 plastic MacBook goes some way to showing the lack of imagination Apple put into this 'notebook' event. Read on for the deets.

Just a few hours now till Apple turns its spotlight to notebooks - as per the wording on its US invitation. Messrs Jobs and Co will be taking to the stage at the Town Hall event in San Francisco at 1pm local time, which makes it 9pm UK time.

Since all us UK hacks will apparently be tucked up in bed by then, dreaming of deadlines and word counts, Apple's promised Mobile Computer a look at the new merchandise tomorrow afternoon so stand by for a flurry of photos and videos at that time. Meanwhile, read on for more.

If web rumours are to believed, Apple will be releasing its new Macbook line up in just five days - and this is what it could be unveiling. Unearthed via the Chinese site Eleson and posted on Apple.pro, the pictures show what's believed to be the case of the new MacBook 'Brick' - a laptop, so they say, carved from a single block of aluminium.

We’re glad we’re not patent lawyers because Apple’s most recent filing with the US Patents and Trademark Office is making our heads spin. Indeed, Apple’s latest brainwave seems to involve quite a lot of spinning. And twisting. And flipping.

Dubbed ‘multi-touch data fusion’, it appears to build on Apple’s existing multi-touch technologies by incorporating speech and camera input. How so? We’ll try to explain after the cut.