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Hardware MacBook Air News

Teardown of late-2010 MacBook Air finds six battery cells, other new features

Ok, now this is interesting. True to form, the cool cats at iFixit performed a complete teardown of Apple’s newest instant-on, 11.6″ MacBook Air and found now less than six separate lithium-polymer battery cells. The internal components are slightly different from those found in the 13.3″ model, a prototype of which was spotted before the […]

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Apple TV News

Second-gen Apple TV may be causing video distortion on older TVs

Apple’s long-awaited second generation Apple TV may be spiffy, but there may be bugs to sort out. Per CNET, the set-top box may cause video distortion and users have reported that the new Apple TV may not be compatible with some television sets only five years old. User jitterysquid first posted the issue in the […]

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News Processors

Nvidia announces seven new GeForce 400M notebook graphics card with accelerated Web browsing features

This could be nifty. Graphics chip maker Nvidia on Friday announced seven new GeForce 400M series graphics cards for notebooks, which could provide parallel-processing capabilities to accelerate Web browsing and 3D image rendering. Per Macworld, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome have either implemented or will soon include the capability to offload tasks […]

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hard drive Hardware

Toshiba rolls out 750GB, 1TB notebook hard drives

Electronics manufacturer Toshiba announced the release of its MK7559GSXP (just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) notebook drive Wednesday night. Per Electronista, the 2.5″ notebook drive is the first to hold 750GB but reach the same 9.5mm height as most slimmer notebook hard drives. As such, it can provide the capacity expected of a desktop […]

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iPhone News

Toshiba Announces 64GB Flash Memory Modules, iPhone Likely Candidate for New Component

Electronics manufacturer Toshiba has announced its new 64GB embedded flash memory modules (created via a 32nm process technology and featuring a dedicated controller) which should become available in the first quarter of 2010. The chips seem likely to find their way into a future model of iPhone. The new chips are available for sample now, […]