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Apple’s white legacy MacBook shifted over to education marketplace

Following up on yesterday’s story that Apple had removed its US$999 white entry-level MacBook from its inventory, the company has apparently kept the notebook available for eduction institutions only. Per AppleInsider, Apple surprised on Wednesday when it suddenly pulled the white MacBook from its site, bringing a faster-than-expected transition to the new 11.6-inch MacBook Air […]

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Mac OS X 10.7 features, release date, App Store-only purchase structure highlighted at WWDC

Ok, this might take a while to go through… Following up on Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developers Conference which opened today, Apple announced on Monday that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will be available only in the Mac App Store, and the operating system upgrade will be available for just US$29.99. Per AppleInsider, a new developer […]

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Rumor: Apple to release Mac OS X 10.7 via Mac App Store

You know, I was getting used to hoofing it into the Apple Store, giving them a reasonable $29 and walking out with a Mac OS X 10.6 DVD… It seemed like a good way to live. Per AppleInsider, Apple will make the switch to a new kind of digital distribution for its upcoming Mac OS […]

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EFI firmware trick allows some 2008 MacBooks, MacBook Pros to address 8GB of RAM

Sometimes these things catch you by surprise in nifty ways. Per the Apple Core, the cool cats at Other World Computing took another look at the memory limits in some of Appleā€™s late 2008 Core 2 Duo MacBook and MacBook Pros. Its testing found that a specific blend of updated firmware, Boot ROM and OS […]

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Rumor: Apple looking to place Sandy Bridge processor in MacBook Air line this June

If you’re hankering for an upgraded processor in your MacBook Air, just wait a bit. Per CNET, Apple is looking to replace the Core 2 Duo chip found in the current MacBook Air, a processor that is two generations behind Intel’s recently released Sandy Bridge processors. The MacBook Air was updated with a new, thinner […]