Apple has been much maligned but I don’t know it is a pretty cool customer service company. At 5pm, we discover the trackpad doesn’t work on a MacBook. Fire up the apple store app on the iPhone and make a 730pm appointment. It’s a four year old Mac so out of warranty. Most companies could […]

OK some quick things on using a Macbook Air: * “Superdrive”:http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/15/the-macbook-air-superdrive/ is a USB drive, but amazingly it only works with the Macbook Air. I don’t really understand that as it is just a USB device. Belongs in the, that’s crazy. Now of course, I don’t plan to use it anywhere else, but why did […]

I had the classic, well it worked when I booted, but as soon as I wanted to do real work, it dies problem. Basically, when I try to start the MacBook Pro now, I get the grey screen and the startup chime. Then it sits there doing nothing (I can actually hear the click as […]

I wish that they had shipped this smaller brick with the initial MacBooks, but at least you can buy a much smaller adapter for $80 in a few weeks… MacNN | Briefly: New MBP adapter, Duke/iPhone solved brief: Apple has begun shipping a new MagSafe power adapter for the MacBook Pro with the model number […]

Besides Norton and Mcafee which both offer pay anti-virus, “ClamXav”:http://www.pure-mac.com/virus.html is freeware. It by the way claims that there are no viruses that target OS X which is amazing if true. Powered by ScribeFire.

I just love the “WaterField”:http://www.sfbags.com/products/sleevecases/sizingpages/15-2.htm bags for our Sony’s, they have a similar sleeve option for MacBook Pro 15″ call their 15-2 line. Powered by ScribeFire.

Well, wandered over to the Apple store. They are an amazing retail experience. I’ve never seen such a crowded store. The people there are amazingly friendly. Ended up buying a Mac Book 15″ with 2.2 GHz and 120GB hard drive. This has the new LED screen that is supposed to be very color accurate. Lots […]

Hurray, now that the hardware is updated, its time to buy. There are lots of incremental improvements, but the biggest news is the LED-backlight in the 15.4″ and the upgrade to 1920×1200 on the 17″. Drool, drool. Also, you can now get a 250GB hard drive and 4GB of memory, so they are getting closer […]

Hurray, now that the hardware is updated, its time to buy. There are lots of incremental improvements, but the biggest news is the LED-backlight in the 15.4″ and the upgrade to 1920×1200 on the 17″. Drool, drool. Also, you can now get a 250GB hard drive and 4GB of memory, so they are getting closer […]