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gfxCardStatus utility allows dynamic switching between MacBook Pro graphics cards

Although Apple’s current MacBook Pro notebooks allow you to switch between graphics processing units in order to optimize performance and battery life, Apple doesn’t really provide an easy way to manage the different GPUs on the system, and if you like to tinker you may find the utility gfxCardStatus useful, both for newer and older […]

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iPhone News

Court documents confirm Apple/AT&T exclusive five year deal, questions surface over contract renegotiations

With additional chatter surrounding the idea of Apple extending the iPhone to Verizon this year, the exact specifics of Apple’s five-year exclusive contract with AT&T have never really been published. Fortunately, the cool cats at Engadget managed to uncover the following: An ongoing California class-action lawsuit filed in 2007 claims that Apple and AT&T illegally […]

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Apple developing its own alternative to Flash via Gianduia

When in doubt, roll your own. As the multimedia wars continue between Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, Apple is using Gianduia, a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps that it introduced World of WebObjects Developers Conference last summer, to create its own production quality apps. Gianduia, named after an Italian hazelnut chocolate, is […]

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USB 3.0 underperforms in notebook tests, bottlenecks cited

USB 3.0 may be the future, but it may still have room for improvement. Per Techworld, the upcoming port technology may be hard pressed to surpass current technologies like eSATA. The test comprised plugging Freecom’s USB 3.0 external drive, the XS Hard Drive 3.0, into a mainstream dual-core notebook using the company’s new USB 3.0 […]

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MacBook Air News

Rumor: Apple to release updated MacBook Air on Tuesday

Following the recent refresh to its MacBook Pro line of notebooks last month, the same source who correctly predicted the new MacBook Pro notebook arrival date has stated that an updated MacBook Air could arrive as early as Tuesday. Per AppleInsider, the same source has stated to Macworld UK that a new product will arrive […]