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Apple forecast to sell 700,000 MacBook Air units for holiday season

Regarding the updated MacBook Air… Apple’s expected to sell a few of them. Per DigiTimes, Apple’s new 11.6″ and 13.3″ MacBook Air notebooks have been forecast as selling 700,000 units in the holiday quarter, a Wall Street analyst anticipating gross margins of about 32%. The research department of Concord Securities has reportedly predicted that the […]

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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 releases Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H562 to developer community for testing

Late Thursday, Apple released a new beta for its forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6.5 update. The new build, labeled “10H562” was released to developers late Thursday as a 616MB delta update. According to the release notes, there are no known issues. With new builds coming steadily for several months now, the update is expected to […]

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Prosoft releases Data Rescue 3.1 update

Amidst yesterday’s hubbub, Data Rescue II, Prosoft Engineering’s data rescue and recovery program, was updated to version 3.1 on Wednesday. The new version, a 13 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: – Runs natively as 64-bit on supported machines in Snow Leopard. – New Welcome window for easier access to suspended and completed […]

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Apple previews Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” at media event

In the midst of Apple’s product announcements yesterday, the company previewed its next-generation operating system, Mac OS X 10.7, dubbed “Lion”. Per AppleInsider, the update will bring iOS features to the Mac platform, including multi-touch gestures, the App Store and Home screens, and will arrive in the summer of 2011.