Ever wonder what’s inside your Apple battery pack? It turns out that they’re not that complicated inside, but it’s amazing how much power these little cluster of cells can hold. I took an iBook G3 (dual USB) battery apart on the advice of Coconut Battery which told me that after 496 load cycles, this battery […]
Month: September 2006
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Incredible MacBook Pro Noise
2 weeks ago, I started hearing this really loud noise coming from the right side of my MacBook Pro (it’s not the hard drive). The first time, it was so loud, I thought my computer was going to explode! I sent it to Apple… and 5 days later, I got my computer back. To my […]
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Greenpeace Report Targets Apple, Misses
Greenpeace recently released a “Guide to Greener Electronics,” which specifically called attention to Apple and assigned the company a failing grade. But just this April, the Sierra Club named Apple a “Forward Green Leader,” as one of the top ten environmentally progressive companies. How is that possible? It turns out that the Greenpeace report was […]
Although I previously reported that Apple is not giving a keynote address at Apple-Expo in Paris in two weeks, Mac4Ever and HardMac are reporting that Apple is holding a press event on 12 September in San Francisco, the same date as the kickoff of Apple-Expo. The sites also indicate that the press event is being […]