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MacBook

MacBook and MacBook Pro SuperDrive failure (#2): Battery-related?; Try PMU reset; more

I haven’t experienced any problems with the SuperDrive in my MacBook Pro, but others have: A surprisingly high number of readers have responded to our initial coverage of an issue where the SuperDrives in both MacBooks and MacBook Pros fail — generally with an inability to mount or read data from otherwise viable media… in […]

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retail

Atlantic City Store Grand Opening

If any PowerPage readers from the Garden State want to get together for a Grand Opening party – get in touch! Apple has officially announced the grand opening of The Pier at Caesars (Atlantic City, NJ) store for August 19th at 11 a.m. No doubt because of the store’s location, it will be open unusual […]

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Gadget

The Laptop Crusade – More on the $100 Laptop

For nearly a year, Béhar has been at work on the most visible and most controversial project of his career. His client, a nonprofit offshoot of the MIT Media Lab, had dreamed up a radical new computer. Depending on who you asked, it was either soon-to-be-legendary vaporware or a shortcut to modern education for tens […]

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battery

WSJ: Laptop Dangers Draw Scrutiny From Airline-Safety Regulators

It appears that notebook computer batteries are the latest focus of airline safety regulators after a series or high profile explosions, fires and recalls in recent months. Could the airlines ban all electronics from commercial flights? It’s unlikely as business travelers (the most lucrative category for the troubled airlines) would surely revolt. A WSJ article […]

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battery

The Apple Core: Dell, Apple notebook batteries linked

The world’s largest personal computer maker, Dell Inc., announced yesterday that it would recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries with cells made by Sony Corp., the largest recall in Dell’s history. MacFixIt has inferred that the recalled Dell batteries could be the same Sony batteries used by Apple. Read the rest of the story on […]