The MacBook Air has become the ultimate everyday notebook. Today Apple unveiled the next-generation MacBook Air with All Day Battery Life. The new MacBook Air features Haswell processors, these processors are more energy-efficient and include 40% faster graphics. 11-inch MacBook Air goes to 9 hours of battery life from 5 and the 13-inch goes from [...]
If you were planning on buying a MacBook Pro with Retina display or a MacBook Air, then you’ll be happy to hear this news. Apple has slashed the prices for the MacBook Pro with Retina display and the 13-inch MacBook Air. The company announced in a Press Release today, that prices for the 13-inch Retina [...]
Apple announced new hardware upgrades for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro in June earlier this year. The upgrades included the latest Intel processors, RAM, better graphics etc. The company has now released a new version 2.0 update for both of the laptops. Update 2.0 brings improved graphics, better compatibility with certain USB devices and [...]
In July Apple made the surprising move of removing their products from the EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) registry of environmentally friendly products. This caused a huge uproar with consumers and even in the enterprise sector because it is often times mandatory for large corporations to only purchase electronics that are EPEAT certified. As a [...]
Apple released OS X Mountain Lion, its latest Mac operating system, to the public yesterday. Earlier this year at WWDC 2012, Apple announced a new feature in OS X Mountain Lion called PowerNap. This nifty feature lets your MacBook update itself while in a state of sleep. With PowerNap, your MacBook Air and the new [...]
I fired up the new MacBook Air this morning and discovered a software update waiting to be installed. This is a fairly significant update from Apple that will increase your battery life in certain circumstance. You see, apparently there was an issue that lead to increased CPU power consumption that wasted unnecessary battery power with [...]
Posted on June 29, 2012 by Mitch Bowman
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After numerous reports of the new Macbook Airs crashing when running Google Chrome, a spokesperson for Google got in touch with Gizmodo and confirmed their suspicions. A bug in Google Chrome has indeed been crashing Macbook Airs. Google’s statement is as follows: We have identified a leak of graphics resources in the Chrome browser related to [...]
Are you the kind of person who shells out $20 to have a professional clean dust out of your desktop computer or are you the kind of person who doesn’t mind getting their hands dirty? If you are the later, you might be interested in iFixit’s teardown of the recently updated 13″ MacBook Air. If [...]
Posted on June 11, 2012 by Jaden Ellett
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When the WWDC 2012 first began Tim Cook took the stage and began talking about various App Store stats. Now Phil Schiller has took the stage to talk about the future of the MacBook lineup. Up first is the MacBook Air and in the next-generation MacBook Air comes new Ivy Bridge Processors, increased RAM and [...]
Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference kicks off next week, and Apple has yet to reveal the 43 events labelled as “to be announced.” What could those events be about? 9To5Mac believes that Apple has more up its sleeve than software updates for iOS and Mac OS X. According to, uh, “sources,” Apple is planning to update [...]