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  • What do your gadgets really weigh?

    Posted January 18, 2012 - 8:00 am

    Wonder why your backpack or jacket feels too heavy? We weighed popular tech items along with some common handheld objects to give you perspective on what you're lugging around with you.

  • Larger 15-in. MacBook Air 'makes sense' for Apple, say analysts

    Posted November 28, 2011 - 2:19 pm

    Apple will launch a 15-in. MacBook Air in the first quarter of 2012, according to a report from a Taiwanese publication that cited unnamed sources in the component supply channel.

  • A rising star in the Apple constellation

    Posted November 15, 2011 - 4:20 pm

    Apple's MacBook Air has surged to 28% of Apple's total notebook sales since the debut earlier this year of the Thunderbolt peripheral devices interface.

  • Chinese factory shutdown may affect Mac notebook supplies

    Posted October 17, 2011 - 2:18 pm

    The shutdown of production at a Chinese manufacturer may affect inventories of Apple's popular MacBook Pro and MacBook Air notebooks, an analyst said.

  • MacBook Air firmware update fixes Thunderbolt issues

    Posted September 13, 2011 - 1:55 pm

    Apple on Monday released Firmware Update 2.1, which improves Lion Recovery over an Internet connection, and also resolves issues with Apple Thunderbolt Display and Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode performance on affected MacBook Airs.

  • Intel's Ultrabook struggling plan to battle Apple MacBook Air

    Posted September 6, 2011 - 11:32 am

    Intel released design specifications for a "MacAir" killer last spring, and have been trying to convince hardware manufacturers to jump onboard. One way? A $300 million fund to help vendors get rolling making a small light laptop for under $1,000 to fight tablet sales growth

  • Breakfast links: MacBook Air contains no big surprises

    Posted July 22, 2011 - 7:06 am

    Also: Larry Page, under oath!

  • MacBook Air: Speculation increases as inventories dwindle

    Posted June 27, 2011 - 8:47 am

    Online retailers are showing signs that a MacBook Air refresh may be imminent. Best Buy recently stopped shipping all four models of the latest Air lineup through its online store. Shoppers looking for Apple's ultraportable laptop from Best Buy will have to pick it up at the big box chain's physical locations instead. There are also reports of constrained MacBook Air inventories in some of Amazon's international stores (although not the U.S. store), according to 9-to-5 Mac.

  • Review

    Upgrading your MacBook Air solid-state drive

    Posted May 24, 2011 - 9:17 am

    The MacBook Air has won over a large number of Apple laptop users. But in order to offer such extreme portability, the MacBook Air comes with a few tradeoffs. One of those tradeoffs is with the flash storage--it's fast, but it's expensive, and to keep the cost down, Apple is a bit stingy with the amount of flash storage it makes available in the standard MacBook Air configurations. With the ultra-thin laptop's storage space ranging from a miniscule 64GB to an underwhelming 256GB, it's no wonder that some MacBook Air lovers want to increase the capacity, no matter the cost.

  • Prostitute hands Apple golden marketing opportunity

    Posted May 2, 2011 - 9:37 am

    The reported theft of a MacBook Pro by a prostitute from a man who allegedly refused to pay after she performed certain services provides Apple with the ingredients for a viral marketing campaign.

  • Software update fixes MacBook Air iTunes issue

    Posted March 30, 2011 - 7:54 pm

    Owners of last year's MacBook Air models who've been running into problems with iTunes got some relief Wednesday in the form of an Apple software update. The catchily-named Mac OS X v10.6.7 Supplemental Update for 13" MacBook Air (Late 2010)--or "update" for short--tackles an issue where Apple's ultra-thin laptop became unresponsive when using iTunes.

  • Mac OS X 10.6.7 causing iTunes woes for MacBook Air

    Posted March 23, 2011 - 9:52 am

    Some owners of the new 13in MacBook Air have been reporting issues with the recently issued update for Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6.7.

  • Samsung's 9 Series laptop vs. MacBook Air

    Posted February 25, 2011 - 12:35 pm

    Samsung's launch on Thursday of the the ultra-thin, ultra-light, and premium-design 9 Series laptop puts it head-to-head now with Apple's MacBook Air - and so begins the war of the sleek laptops.

  • Apple releases MacBook Air, iDVD updates

    Posted January 18, 2011 - 8:58 pm

    Apple sure has a funny way of celebrating record-setting holiday quarters. Before the company ended its 2011 kick-off earnings call on Monday, Apple released a pair of software updates for owners of the latest-generation MacBook Air and iLife '11.

  • Windows PCs may be looking to imitate MacBook Air

    Posted December 21, 2010 - 2:07 pm

    Feeling a bit of MacBook Air envy, Acer, Asus and Lenovo may soon offer alternatives to Apple's ultra-thin computer, according to Digitimes.

  • Review

    MacBook Air flash storage torture tests

    Posted December 9, 2010 - 2:06 pm

    As you probably know, the MacBook Air uses flash storage instead of the hard drives found in every other Mac. And while the initial results using our Speedmark 6.5 test suite showed that the Air’s flash storage helped provide a performance boost, we were concerned about whether that performance could be maintained over time.

  • Apple releases MacBook Air EFI firmware update 2.0

    Posted December 8, 2010 - 10:05 pm

    On Wednesday afternoon, Apple released a firmware update for the new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air models to address problems with booting and responsiveness.

  • MacBook Air running Windows 7 performs poorly in comparison tests

    Posted December 3, 2010 - 4:49 pm

    Recently, after testing two MacBook Air models running Windows 7, we published results that showed the thin and light Apple laptops outperformed most Windows-based netbooks and ultraportable notebooks. Hundreds of readers commented on the article, with many of the comments going something like this: "The MacBook Air costs far more than many of the laptops you've compared it against. How does it do against similarly priced notebooks?"

  • Macbook Air could foretell death of hard drives

    Posted November 16, 2010 - 3:35 pm

    Apple's decision to use SSD technology rather than a hard drive in the new Macbook Air -- and Steve Jobs' pronouncement that it represents the future of notebooks -- could hasten the replacement of traditional drives with NAND flash technology.

  • MacBook Air tops Consumer Reports ratings

    Posted November 10, 2010 - 1:38 pm

    Consumer Reports may not like the iPhone 4 much, but it loves loves loves the MacBook Air.

  • Toshiba rolls out slimmer form factor for SSDs

    Posted November 8, 2010 - 5:55 pm

    Toshiba introduced its new blade-type SSD modules with capacities of up to 256GB and with a thickness one-third that of solid-state disk drives that typically come in a hard-drive form factor.

  • Dump flash, get two extra hours of MacBook Air battery life

    Posted November 5, 2010 - 12:43 pm

    Ditching Adobe Flash on your Apple MacBook Air can extend your battery life by two hours, according to reports. Chris Foresman at Ars Technica discovered battery life in the new MacBook Airs is 33 percent longer without the Flash plugin installed. According to his tests having Flash installed shaved two hours off the laptop's battery life.

  • MacBook Air Bugs Are a Reminder of iPhone Woes

    Posted November 4, 2010 - 8:09 pm

    Some users of the new MacBook Air have been reporting frustrations on the screen, such as random flashing, the appearance of horizontal or vertical lines, and in some cases, different colors filling the screen just before the computer crashes.

  • Report: Apple scrambling for MacBook Air fix

    Posted November 4, 2010 - 12:32 pm

    Some of Apple's new 11- and 13-inch MacBook Air notebooks have been suffering from screen problems, including horizontal and vertical lines appearing across the screen, color changes, and blank and gray screen crashes. Others have reported odd kernel problems (essentially the Blue Screen of Death). So far the only Band-Aid for the screen defects is a CPU reboot.

  • Reports: New MacBook Airs suffer screen problems

    Posted November 3, 2010 - 8:42 am

    It doesn't matter how gorgeous your laptop is if your screen blanks out. Has it happened to you?
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