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2018 MacBook Air battery now user-replaceable

Post author By Chris Barylick
Post date November 9, 2018

If you’ve suffered through the Parade of Glue and Adhesive that was involved in replacing the batteries on Apple’s MacBook Air notebooks since 2012, you’re going to love this. Apple’s new MacBook Air battery can be replaced by the owner in the notebook. In all other MacBook and MacBook Pro models with a Retina display […]

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Apple announces updated 13-inch MacBook Air with Retina display, Thunderbolt 3 ports, reworked trackpad, other features

Post author By Chris Barylick
Post date October 31, 2018

Over at the Brooklyn media event, Apple announced its new 2018 MacBook Air, complete with a Retina display, Thunderbolt 3, a redesigned trackpad and other new features. The notebook now arrives in three finishes, and incorporates a pair of Thunderbolt 3 ports on the left side and a headphone jack on the right side. The […]

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iFixit releases 13-inch 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro teardown, finds larger battery, new power supply, other changes

Post author By Chris Barylick
Post date July 17, 2018

The cool cats at iFixit have just published their teardown of the 13-inch 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro, the results indicating larger battery and speaker components, which appear to have come without an increase in overall weight. The notebook has been upgraded from a five-cell, 49.2 watt-hour battery to a 58 watt-hour six-cell part. The […]

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

Post author By Chris Barylick
Post date June 7, 2018

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 […]