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Hardware MacBook Air News

Teardown of late-2010 MacBook Air finds six battery cells, other new features

Ok, now this is interesting. True to form, the cool cats at iFixit performed a complete teardown of Apple’s newest instant-on, 11.6″ MacBook Air and found now less than six separate lithium-polymer battery cells. The internal components are slightly different from those found in the 13.3″ model, a prototype of which was spotted before the […]

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MacBook Air Rumor

Rumor: Next-gen MacBook Air to feature longer lasting battery, upgradable RAM

Because next-gen MacBook Air rumors and details are the hip thing today, a couple new interesting tidbits have emerged from the cool cats at Cult of Mac. Per the article, an anonymous source has stated that the refreshed MacBook Air will offer 8 to 10 hours of battery life as well as upgradeable RAM, which […]

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iPod shuffle photos

iFixit posts full teardown of 2010 iPod Shuffle

Once again, the cool cats at iFixit have gotten their hands on Apple’s new hardware to perform a full teardown of the fourth-generation iPod shuffle. Per AppleInsider, the new hardware carries a model number of A1373, updated from the A1271 designation of the previous generation hardware. The updated iPod shuffle marks the return of buttons […]

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News Processors

Nvidia announces seven new GeForce 400M notebook graphics card with accelerated Web browsing features

This could be nifty. Graphics chip maker Nvidia on Friday announced seven new GeForce 400M series graphics cards for notebooks, which could provide parallel-processing capabilities to accelerate Web browsing and 3D image rendering. Per Macworld, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome have either implemented or will soon include the capability to offload tasks […]

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iPhone News

iOS 4 upgrade offers some battery life improvements over iOS 3 for iPhone 3G, 3GS handsets

With the recent release of iOS 4.0 and iOS 4.0.1, one question has needed to be answered: does the update boost your iPhone’s battery life. Per Macworld, it does, the lab downgrading an iPhone 3G that was running iOS 4 to iOS 3.1.3 and running a series of tasks. The staff then upgraded the iPhone […]