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Rumor: Apple to start production of Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook Air notebooks in May

Apple next month will reportedly begin manufacturing the first updates to its rejuvenated MacBook Air line as the company looks to maintain the impressive sales momentum generated by the ultra-thin notebooks and limit the market opportunity for would-be competitors hoping to wedge their foot in the door. Per AppleInsider, sales of the aggressively-priced 11.6- and […]

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MacBook Pro News

2011 MacBook Pro notebooks booting to gray screen, freezing, workarounds suggested

As nifty and drool-worthy as the 2011 MacBook Pro notebooks may be, there still may be issues to sort out. Per MacFixIt, a number of owners have noted an issue wherein the machine will start up to the gray Apple logo screen without a progress indicator and freeze. Apple has also noted the issue, releasing […]

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MacBook Pro News Software

2011 MacBook Pro-Specific Boot Camp 3.2 update appears to lead to brightness issues

Here’s the thing with updates: they’re great and generally resolve problems and turn a disaster around. Then there’s the other 10% for whom they make the sky fill with brimstone, the seas boil over and cause your cat to start waltzing across the living room floor with your terrier. Per AppleInsider, Apple’s small Boot Camp […]

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Apple receives patent for dock connector with USB 3.0, Thunderbolt elements built in

A patent recently granted to Apple reveals that the company is looking into a modified dock connector compatible with newer high-speed communication standards, such as USB 3.0 and a “dual-lane DisplayPort,” or Thunderbolt, connector. Per AppleInsider, the invention, entitled “Reduced Size Multi-Pin Male Plug Connector,” was published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on […]

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Mac OS X 10.6.7 internal references point to widening graphics card support for future Mac hardware

Dig around inside an update’s code and you’ll find all sorts of interesting stuff. Per the tonymacx86 Blog, the Mac OS X 10.6.7 update for early 2011 Mac Book Pro models features native graphics acceleration for some Radeon HD 5000- and 6000-series cards. The supported cards are off-the-shelf graphics processing units, not Mac-only cards as […]