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Yesterday Apple announced its refreshed line of MacBook Pros sporting the latest Sandybridge processors and AMD graphics processors complimented by Intel’s integrated graphics chip. However, the baseline MacBook Pro lacks a discrete GPU and is powered by Intel’s HD 3000. While some are decrying Apple for intentionally ditching Nvidia for Intel, the constraints of the
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Why Apple Chose Intel Graphics For The 13-Inch MacBook Pro
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The highlight of Apple’s MacBook Pro announcement is the inclusion of Intel’s newest high-speed data transfer data technology Thunderbolt. Despite it being a new standard, you can start using Thunderbolt today. High-Speed Data Transfer Thunderbolt is being billed by Apple and Intel as the successor to USB 3.0, Firewire and other high-speed data transfer protocols.
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What Is Thunderbolt And Can I Use It?
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Are you thinking of buying a new MacBook Pro? You may want to wait. MacRumors points to evidence from resellers that their stocks of 15 and 17-inch MacBook Pros are running low. Amazon reports a 1 to 2 month delay on 17-inch MacBook Pros while Apple retains a shipping status of “within 24 hours.” Low
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Current supply of MacBook Pros running dry, new model expected soon
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The potential of the iPad and the iPhone has led to over a 100,000 available Apps and spawned an entire market for third party accessories. One emerging section of third party iOS accessories has been musical instruments. The latest comes from Akai and turns your iPad in to a full fledged synthesizer. The Akai SynthStation
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Music And iOS: Akai Introduces SynthStation49 Keyboard For The iPad
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Verizon’s event yesterday squashed years of rumors: the iPhone is finally on Verizon. But what about the iPad? Will a CDMA version of the device exist? According to Verizon, it will. A quote from Verizon’s CFO Francis Shammo to Business Week confirms the carrier will have a CDMA iPad. Verizon will get an embedded chip
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Verizon Will Carry A CDMA iPad
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Verizon is ready to announce the iPhone on its network this coming Tuesday and aside from a hoped lack of drop calls, there is already news of an unlimited data cap. But is unlimited really just that? You may not want to celebrate about the Verizon bound iPhone so fast. Right now the iPhone and
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Verizon Offering Unlimited Data Plan For The iPhone? Not So Fast!
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The Consumer Electronic show which takes place every year in Las Vegas hosts technology vendors from ASUS to Zotac and is one of the largest electronic events of the year. Despite being followed up by Macworld, a large number of Apple accessory makers showcase their latest products at the event. However, one accessory maker gave
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CES Highlights: iPad 2 Hardware & The iCADE
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The iPhone and Verizon have a long and storied history. As soon as the iPhone was announced on Cingular (then AT&T after a merger), rumors swirled the phone would come to Verizon. After 4 years and millions of iPhones sold, Verizon is holding an event January 11th – could the iPhone 4 be coming a
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Verizon Holding Special Event January 11th, iPhone 4 Coming To The Network?
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Apple introduced a new feature to help users find the support they need: “My Support Profile.” Apple’s support profile manager gives you a complete breakdown of what kind of service or repairs any Apple product you own has had. My Support Profile is available to any Apple customer who have registered their product with the
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Apple Makes Support Easier For Every Apple Product You Own
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Many people start the new year off with a few resolutions (my personal resolution being 720p – I see an AppleTV coming soon) but I’m more interested in looking at the potential in tech companies, mainly Apple. What’s in store for us as consumers in 2011? My personal hope is the death of the optical
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CES: Where Everybody Wants to Be Apple™