Tag: Macbook

New 15″ MacBook Pro Announced with Force touchpad and AMD graphics

In addition to their force touchpad toting MacBook and 13″ MacBook pro, Apple have announced the 15″ MacBook pro. Its force touchpad offers the same functionality as the one seen on these models: ‘taptic’ feedback when performing certain tasks, providing a sense of depth to the pad. Apple have opened up the developer API for the trackpad, meaning ...

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Tags: AMD, Apple, Intel, Macbook

Apple Lawsuit over faulty logic boards dismissed

Another Apple lawsuit has taken place, this time about alleged defective MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and MacBook computers. According to plaintiffs Uriel Marcus and Benedict Verceles, Apple knowingly sold faulty notebooks, claiming they were state of the art. The issue behind the Apple lawsuit was that these people said that the logic boards in some ...

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Tags: Apple lawsuit, Defective MacBook, Macbook

OS X Yosemite Preview 7 released to developers

OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7 was released today and is currently downloadable from the Mac App Store or through the Mac Developer Center. The update is at build 14A343f and comes with a new version of Xcode 6, OS X Server 4.0 Developer Preview and an updated Apple Configurator 1.7. Apple’s OS X Yosemite beta ...

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Tags: Apple, developer preview 7, Macbook, OS X Yosemite, tweaked OS X Yosemite, Xcode 6

Apple banned the use of dangerous chemicals in iPhone production

Apple announced the banning of two dangerous chemicals used in the production of iPhones, iPads, iPods and MacBooks. Benzene and n-hexane are known for their harmful effects, the most dangerous of them being cancer and nerve damage. Even if their effects were known for some time, proving their association to the various cases of users ...

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Tags: Apple, assembly, ban, benzene, cancer, chemicals, dangerous, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Macbook, n-hexane, nerve damage

Apple and Microsoft to be banned by the Chinese government

Apple received a hard blow from China yesterday, as the government decided to exclude iPads and MacBooks from a list of products that can be bought with public money. This decision was encouraged by the security issues China had to deal with lately, and led to the banning of ten Apple products. Apple isn’t the ...

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Tags: Apple, China, excluded, Facebook, Google, iPad, iPhone, Lenovo, Macbook, market, Microsoft, OS, security, Twitter, WeChat, Windows, Windows 8

Apple upgrades the MacBook Pro line

The long awaited upgrade is here, as Apple finally decided to improve its Pro laptops line. The 15-inch models will come with 16GB RAM, costing the same, while the 13-inch model got cheaper, which for many of us means better. It was about time Apple changed something about its MacBook Pro line of laptops, considering ...

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Tags: 13-inch, 15-inch, 16GB RAM, Apple, hardware, laptop, Macbook, MacBook Pro, Price, Sales, upgrade

Apple OS X 10.10 Yosemite to be released in October alongside Retina MacBook

Today was the opening date of the Yosemite OS beta-testing offer, and supposedly, the final version’s release date has been set for sometime in October this year. At the same time, there are rumors floating around that the OS is not going to come alone, but with a new 12-inch Retina display MacBook and either a ...

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Tags: Apple OS X 10.10 Yosemite, iCloud, iOS 8, Macbook, October, Retina