Tag: APPLEMACBOOK

In theory, it's a noble public initiative to provide every high school student with the latest, high-tech laptops. What's not so noble, though, is to make every kid pay for it themselves. As of September 2011, every student attending Beverly High School in Massachusetts will be required to have their own MacBook as part of a district-wide campaign to modernize classroom technology. According ...

It's been quite some time since we've had a good exploding battery story. Back in 2007, it seemed like nobody was immune from the plague, with Sony being blamed for battery recalls extending to laptops from Apple, Dell, Toshiba, and a number of others. Given that was so long ago and the news was so widely publicized, we'd figured everyone would have, by now, swapped their recalled batteries for ...

Here's to hoping you didn't buy a new MacBook yesterday! Early this morning Apple updated the Apple Store to include a few updates to its popular line of affordable portable computers. Processor speeds now top out at 2.16-gigahertz (up from 2.0 gigahertz), storage maxes out at 200-gigabytes (up from 160-gigabytes) and wireless adapters now include the 802.11n specification, meaning a ...