The guys over at Mac|Life have recently posted a benchmark report on the new MacBook laptops released late last week. The updated laptops went from 1.83 GHz to 2 Ghz and gained an additional two megabytes of L2 cache among other changes and the review pitted the older 2 GHz black MacBook against the newest […]
On Monday, hard drive manufacturer Western Digital announced that the company has started shipping its 250 gigabyte Scorpio SATA drive for laptop systems. According to Macworld News, the 2.5″ hard features a 12 millisecond seek time and spins at 5,400 RPM with a 1.5 gigabyte per second transfer rate and eight megabytes of cache built […]
A class-action lawsuit being brought against Apple claims that the company’s current laptop displays are not capable of displaying millions of colors, despite Apple’s advertising claims. The claim, according to an article over on Dailytech, states that Apple knowingly shipped displays that did not meet its original claims. The document then goes on to point […]
Sometimes your friends open up a network port on their Macs and let you see some of what you’ve been missing. And no matter how savvy or cool you think you are with your shareware, workarounds and free programs, they demonstrate something that blows you away. Recently, a friend showed me Perian, a set of […]
Adium, the free multiple-protocol chat client with support for environments such as AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk and Novell Groupwise, has been updated to version 1.0.4 and includes bells and whistles such as tabbed messaging and encrypted chat modes for privacy. The new version, a 13.2 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and […]