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MacBook Pro News

Apple begins shipping build-to-order MacBook Pro orders, cites March 3rd delivery date

Apple’s first build-to-order units for its 2011 MacBook Pro notebooks began shipping, the company promising delivery by next Thursday. Per AppleInsider, Apple began dispatching these shipments from its Far Eastern manufacturing facilities to Fed-Ex’s Shanghai, China-based shipping hub where they’ll be mailed via air fright this weekend to the courier’s stateside hubs for delivery to […]

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MacBook Pro News

Recent support note indicates that 2011 MacBook Air, Pro units will only support Windows 7 under Boot Camp

Per a recent Apple support note released Friday, the company’s new MacBook Pro models and the recently refreshed MacBook Air won’t support Windows XP and Windows Vista. Note: Windows XP and Vista drivers are not supplied for these computers and are not supported. According to the Apple Core, the note states that Book Camp will […]

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Podcast

PowerPage Podcast Episode 151 – Same dog food, reheated

The week we discuss the new 2011 MacBook Pro, Apple’s March 2/iPad 2 event, the Mac OS 10.7 “Lion” developer preview and we play “What’s on your Mac?”

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iPad Rumor

Rumor: iPad 2 to lack Retina Display, SD card slot

Although Apple is likely to show off a new iPad in San Francisco on March 2nd, the unit will reportedly arrive without a Retina Display or built-in SD card slot, contrary to previous reports that both would be included. Per Engadget, sources have stated that “engineering issues” led Apple to make last-minute design changes on […]

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MacBook Pro News

iFixit performs full teardown of early 2011 MacBook Pro, finds interesting new components

It’s been all of a day since the release of Apple’s new Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook Pro noteboooks, but already the cool cats at iFixit have performed a full teardown of the new models. Per the report, the guys found that the controller for Thunderbolt is the fourth largest chip on the logic board, after the CPU, […]