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Apple announces interactive textbooks, releases iBooks 2.0 update

As Apple’s Guggenheim-based education event continues, the company kicked off its announcements with iBooks 2.0, which will bring a new textbook experience to the iPad. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, these textbooks will include standard text interspersed with interactive high-quality images, videos, animations and 3D models. This content will allow for features such as being […]

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Opinion

The Apple Core: Jason lends his thoughts on Apple’s education event and announcements

Everyone’s got their theories and PowerPage head honcho Jason O’Grady has his own per Apple’s much-anticipated education announcement over at the Guggenheim in New York City today. With that in mind, kindly check out the Apple Core for his thoughts, ideas and notions as to what’s en route. And if he’s totally wrong, he’ll buy […]

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MacBook MacBook Air News

Apple’s white legacy MacBook shifted over to education marketplace

Following up on yesterday’s story that Apple had removed its US$999 white entry-level MacBook from its inventory, the company has apparently kept the notebook available for eduction institutions only. Per AppleInsider, Apple surprised on Wednesday when it suddenly pulled the white MacBook from its site, bringing a faster-than-expected transition to the new 11.6-inch MacBook Air […]

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MacBook retail

Apple Offers Additional Education Store Discount, Brings MacBook Prices to Below $800 in Some Cases

Sometimes there’s a decent deal to be had if you look for it. According to MacNN, Apple has offered an educational discount on the current MacBook, dropping the price below US$899. Apple recently dropped the standard educational price by $50, on top of a previous price below the $999 retail cost via its educational store. […]

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MacBook

Seattle Times: Best computer for school? MacBook

I’ve always had a weakness for stationery, and the end of August is when it’s worst. I can get lost in a drugstore’s overstocked aisles of back-to-school gear for half an hour or more looking at notebooks and art supplies, reminiscing back to that transitional window between summer and fall. But students today are just […]