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The Apple Core: MacBook not upgradable to Merom

A lot of people wanted to see a new MacBook Pro based on Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor (code-name “Merom”) at WWDC, but as I’ve said here before, it’s just too soon. The MacBook Pro (15-inch) was announced less than five months ago – on February 14th and Apple doesn’t want to make all their […]

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Top Secret features in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

Steve Jobs’ keynote address at WWDC 2006 was a little out of the ordinary. Rather than trumpeting all of the big new features coming to Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (due Spring 2007) Jobs specifically kept some of its major features “top secret.” A stark contrast to the showman Jobs who usually whips attendees into a […]

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The Apple Core: WWDC kicks off today

Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off today in San Francisco where Steve Jobs will give a demonstration of Mac OS 10.5 “Leopard.” Leopard is due to be released at the end of 2006 or early 2007 according to Jobs’ 2005 WWDC keynote address. In addition to demoing the sixth major revision to […]

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The Apple Core: MacBook wireless hacked, not hacked, ok hacked

If you’ve been following the drama over the hackability of a MacBook’s wireless driver your head is probably spinning. The latest news is that the MacBook’s wireless device driver is indeed hackable with the exploit demonstrated at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet […]

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The Apple Core: MacBook wireless hack dismissed (Updated)

Earlier today I posted a story about about two hackers from the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas and how they supposedly demonstrated how to exploit a vulnerability in Apple’s wireless device driver to remotely access and control a MacBook over a network. The story was based, in part, on a blog entry by Brian […]