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Fun PowerBook G4 Titanium

PowerBook G4 Notebooks Fashioned Into Snowboard

I’m not sure what to say about this…except that it exists. Per Silicon Valley Insider, a couple of German-speaking guys crafted a pair of old titanium PowerBook G4 notebooks into a small snowboard. The video pretty much says it all, though the amount of flopping about and crashing during tests indicates that riding it takes […]

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MacBook

Apple Posts Tips for Sudden Motion Sensor, Trackpad Use on Recent MacBooks

Apple has recently updated a couple of its knowledge base articles which may prove useful for MacBook notebook owners. Per CNET, the articles cover how to enable and disable the built-in sudden motion sensor in MacBook and PowerBook computers, and also how to use the glass multi-touch track pad. Advanced tips for Sudden Motion Sensor: […]

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Review

REVIEW: Futura Laptop Desk

Anyone who uses a PowerBook or MacBook for any extended period of time know the amount of heat that they generate. If you plan on using a MacBook on your lap (which is forbayed by Apple) you need to use some sort of a stand to protect your, ahem, nether region from all the heat […]

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News

Extreme: Anyone Knee’d a PowerBook?

A right of passage? Some call me an idiot when they see this but I’ve been called worse. I would say “passsionate” is a better word. One man takes his frustration out on an innocent PowerBook. Not for the weak of heart.

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Apple battery fiasco

Hours after posting yesterday that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) determined that substandard batteries for Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro “didn’t pose any safety threat” the same organized notified the public that Apple would be recalling 1.8 million Lithium Ion batteries sold for the PowerBook G4 and iBook G4. This is the third such […]