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iFixit repair guide posits $500 estimate to replace Retina Display MacBook Pro battery

If you want to replace the battery on your brand new 2012 Retina Display MacBook Pro, it’s going to get pricey. Per MacNN, the newly-published iFixit repair guide for the Retina MacBook Pro breaks tasks down by component, such as the logic board, left and right fans, or the SSD. Of special interest though is […]

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Parallels Desktop updated to 7.0.15106

On Thursday, Parallels released version 7.0.15106 of its Parallels Desktop virtualization software. The new update, a 306 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Resolves an issue with installing Parallels Desktop in Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 or later. – Resolves an issue with opening third-party virtual machines in Parallels Desktop. – Resolves […]

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MacBook Air MacBook Pro News

Guide: How to troubleshoot PowerNap weirdness under OS X 10.8

There’s been a lot written about OS X 10.8’s new PowerNap feature, wherein your 2011-2012 MacBook Air and 2012 Retina Display MacBook Pro notebooks can perform various background tasks (such as synchronization and updates) while in Sleep mode, but it’s hard to say what to do when things go wrong. With that in mind, the […]

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Apple posts $8.8 billion profit, $35 billion in sales for Q3 2012 returns

There’s a nice ring to the words “US$8.8 billion quarterly profit”… Per Macworld, Apple announced its returns for the third quarter of 2012 yesterday, the company’s sales hitting US$35 billion, up 22 percent from US$28.6 billion last year while profits rose 20.5 percent to US$8.8 billion from US$7.3 billion. Earnings for the quarter were US$9.32 […]

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Apple releases MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Update 1.0 for 2012 notebooks

This could be helpful. On Wednesday, Apple released its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Update 1.0 for its 2012 notebooks. The update, a 76.6 megabyte download, fixes an issue that can lead to increased CPU power consumption, and it improves compatibility with some USB devices. As always, the update can also be found and installed […]