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Apple Removes the Word “Lap” From Web Site

AppleDefects.com has the scoop on Apple’s further expunging the word “lap” from marketing materials for their “notebooks.” Do you remember our story last week regarding Apple’s hypocritical marketing and website suggesting to use the MacBook on your lap? Here is a clip from their Student Orientation site to refresh your memory: Well, they no longer […]

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Software

BC vs. Parallels Shoot-Out: WinXP Performance on the Mac

In this article for News.com Daniel A. Begun pits Apple’s Boot Camp against the agile rival Parallels Desktop at running Windows XP: Apple’s own Boot Camp Public Beta allows you to install Windows XP SP2 onto an Intel Mac, giving you a dual-boot system. Parallels takes a slightly different approach with its Parallels Desktop for […]

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MacBook Pro

Swollen MacBook Pro Battery

MacFixIt has posted some pictures of their swollen MacBook Pro battery: We’ve extensively covered an issue where the MacBook Pro’s battery gradually swells, — apparently due to overheating. In mild cases, batteries swell but remain functional. In these cases, keyboard and/or trackpad functionality is sometimes affected by the rising of internal components. In severe cases, […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: 10.5 speculation runs wild; Photoshopper field day

Last Thursday a mysterious blogger named Trinity Rubicon posted some terrific screen shots he alleged were from Apple’s unreleased Mac OS 10.5 (a.k.a. “Leopard”). The two shots, posted on a blogger account with no other posts, sent the Mac world into a fit of speculation and debate. Read the rest of the story on my […]

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Software

Faker Comes Clean on 10.5 Leopard “Screen Shots”

Trinity Rubicon admitted Saturday that the “screen shots” he posted for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard were actually just clever Photoshop-jobs. “The Jig is up” he says… So in case you didn’t just hear me admit it, those screenshots are 100% fake. They are entirely Photoshopped, done merely for fun out of lots of free time […]