I’m so hungry for a new Mac that I’m starting to get tech scurvy. I need some new delicious Mac goodness all up in my desk area, and I’ve been impatiently waiting over 300 days for Apple to announce a new iMac so I...Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs May Delay Launch Of New Macs For 8-10 Weeks
I’m so hungry for a new Mac that I’m starting to get tech scurvy. I need some new delicious Mac goodness all up in my desk area, and I’ve been impatiently waiting over 300 days for Apple to announce a new iMac so I...Apple tops 2011 mobile PC sales if iPad is included
According to an NPD DisplaySearch report, Apple was the top mobile PC vendor for the fourth quarter of 2011 and the rest of the year -- if you consider iPads to be mobile PCs. In the fourth quarter, Apple shipped almost 23.4 million MacBooks and iPad...
Why Rickshaw’s Performance Tweed Messenger Is The Best Bag I Ever Owned [Review]
This is my favorite bag. I have many (too many) bags, but this is the best. I doesn’t have any...Timbuk2 Command Messenger 2012 Laptop Bag: A Messenger Bag For Jetsetting MacBooks [Review]
The new Timbuk2 Command Messenger 2012 ($140) is nothing like the first Timbuk2 bag I ever owned, some 11 years and 20 pounds ago, back when I was heavily commited to the world of cycling. Timbuk2 called it the Bolo, and it was a...What’s keeping Mountain Lion off of some 64-bit Macs? Ars investigates
The system requirements for the OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) developer preview released last week indicated that quite a few "modern," 64-bit capable Macs would not be able to upgrade to the new OS. How...
Silicone Speaker Tube Clamps Onto Your iPad, MacBook
Zooka bills itself as a wireless speaker bar for any of your sound-producing gadgets, but one look will tell you the truth: it’s made for iPads and skinny MacBooks. The Zooka is...Mountain Lion Kills OS X Support For A Number Of Macs, Here’s The List
Chances are, you’re already salivating to download the latest version of OS X, Mountain Lion, when it’s released later this summer. For a fair number of Mac owners, though, installing Mountain Lion is going to require buying a new machine, as Apple has abandoned...LaCie’s Thunderbolt Drives Turn MacBooks Into Mac Pros
It’s taken a while, but it seems that the dried up tear-duct that was the supply of Thunderbolt accessories is about to turn into a torrent of high-speed, daisy-chainable tears of relief. Hard...How to dye a MacBook
For Easter this year (which is on April 8), here's a wonderful idea for making your old white MacBook match up with your Easter eggs. "The Brain" at BrainDeadlockLabs decided to do a dye job on his MacBook to give it a bright orange finish that's mor...
Colorware Your Old MacBook Using Fabric Dye
Have you ever wanted one of those custom, Pantone-colored MacBook, but don’t want to pay the guys over at Colorware an $800 premium to make your device look like Jonny Ive and Punky Brewster’s illicit love sprog? Well, the good news is that you...MacBooks benefit students in Mooresville, N.C.
Schools are adopting technology in the classroom, handing out Macs and iPads to students as young as kindergarten. Its not the devices, but their usage in the classroom that's important says a recent New York Times article. The report chronicles the...
About those 4,400 MacBooks in Mooresville, N.C.’s schools
For once, an educational success story that's not really about the computers
Fifth graders in Mooresville. Photo: Jeremy M. Lange for the New York Times
Kudos to the New York Times' Alan Schwarz for seeing beyond the Apple (AAPL) angle -- those 4,400 MacBooks, the school district's cutesy slogan (iBelieve, iCan, iWill), the fact that the DOE's...
