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Apple discontinues 2015 MacBook Pro, places remaining inventory at clearance pricing

It’s out with the old, even if the old thing is a seriously nice piece of hardware. Apple has just officially discontinued the 2015 MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 2 and MagSafe 2 ports, meaning you’d better get your posterior in gear if you’d like one. The model has been replaced by the brand new Touch […]

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Apple releases Coffee Lake MacBook Pro notebooks, boosts processors up to 4-core and 6-core configurations

The rather huge MacBook Pro news hit today. Apple on Thursday released its long-awaited line of MacBook Pro notebooks. And while there aren’t a ton of external changes, the company seems to be chasing the pros by switching to the eight-generation of Intel Core processors (known as the “Coffee Lake” line), for which which Apple […]

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Apple’s Craig Federighi says that Apple is “not into touchscreens” for forthcoming Macs

In as much as you may crave a touchscreen Mac, according to Apple SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, this probably isn’t in the works. Despite Apple’s iOS-to-Mac app porting tools, universal multiplatform apps, and Apple’s announcement that it will start porting some of its own iOS apps to the Mac this year and allow […]

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Analysis of repair data shows 2016 MacBook Pro keyboards failing at twice the rate of previous models

As spiffy as the 2016 MacBook Pro keyboard was, complete with its new butterfly key-switch action, there’ve been a fair number of complaints about the unit, especially with regards to its failure rates. And they’ve been getting worse. The cool cats over at AppleInsider collected service data for the first year of release of the […]

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Apple announces battery replacement program for some 2016, 2017 13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) units

Late Friday, Apple announced its 13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement Program. The company said a component failure may lead to battery expansion, and that affected devices can get their battery replaced. Apple offered the following comment as to the replacement program: “Apple has determined that, in a limited number of 13-inch MacBook […]