Come to think of it, metal housings ARE sort of important on your Mac notebook… According to the Financial Times, a Chinese factory responsible for manufacturing the metal housings for Apple’s uni-body laptop lineup has been shutdown due to “strange odors” emanating from the plant, potentially causing a 40% decrease in shipments for November. Catcher […]
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When in doubt, switch a component supplier. Per DigiTimes, part supplier sources maintained Wednesday that Apple had recently been pushed into switching battery supply for the iPad 2. Apple moved some of its orders from Simplo to Dynapack at the end of September after Simplo’s eastern China plant produced some leak-prone lithium-polymer packs according to […]
Apple’s new Thunderbolt-equipped displays are getting good reviews and can do a fair number of things. But they can’t be daisy-chained. According to an Apple support document, the company has noted that previous DisplayPort screens will not work when attached to the Thunderbolt port of its new display. Thunderbolt-equipped Macs can support one or two […]
The notion of slimming a notebook down and having it sell well seems to be working for the MacBook Air and this may be where the MacBook Pro is headed. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Apple seems likely to completely redesign its MacBook Pro line in favor of a thinner and lighter form factor. A […]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s the rumors that make life interesting. Per SemiAccurate, sources have claimed that Apple will be transitioning from Intel processors to ARM processors in the not too distant future. The short story is that Apple is its notebook line, and presumably desktops too, to ARM-based chips […]