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According to a Knowledge Base article posted last week, Apple is now replacing (free of charge) frayed, discolored and deformed MagSafe power adapters for MacBook and MacBook Pro.
It looks like Apple has a nice little surprise for anybody in the market for the SSD equipped MacBook Air. The price on the Apple Store for the 64GB SSD upgrade on the 1.6GHz Air has dropped to $599 from $999. Similarly the price of the 1.8GHz Air (equipped with the SSD standard) has dropped to $2598 from $3098.
In an interesting test by the folks over at Tom’s Hardware, solid-state drives (SSDs) suck more power than their platter-based counterparts. Why should you care? Because the MacBook Air features an SSD in its higher-end configurations.
Tom’s looked at four different SSD models, and compared them with a 7,200 RPM disk of the same size. One disk, from Crucial, touted its “low power consumption” in marketing materials. However, the disk reduced its test laptop’s battery runtime from seven hours to six hours. Ouch.
DisplaySearch, a market research firm, is reporting that Apple’s sales of notebook computers are up 61% from 1st Quarter, 2007 to 1st Quarter, 2008. In that fiscal quarter, Apple shipped over 1.4 million notebooks, compared to almost 900,000 the year before. That puts Apple just behind Asus in terms of growth year-to-year, as the Taiwanese board and component maker saw a 67% growth rate. Most other notebook manufacturers saw growth rates in the 20 - 40% range.
F-Secure is reporting that there are two new Mac OS X trojans. The first is just a proof-of-concept from the MacShadows people that takes advantage of the unpatched ARDAgent vulnerability to get root access when run by the user. The second relies on social engineering: it’s a poker game that requests the user’s password, claiming to have detected a ‘corrupt preference file.’ It then takes control of the computer. Now that the source of the proof-of-concept is publicly available, They can expect that future trojans won’t just politely request your password.
Adobe has been published the Adobe Acrobat 9’s new release which family of creating PDF software recently. Adobe has been planned on a new dimension with this release. Because Acrobat has already flash support now. You can add your flash videos and applications in your PDF documents. Also, Portfolios feature provide to come together the special or standard templates how compressed in one PDF document (audio, video and 3B objects).
Adobe Acrobat 9 will be put on the markets with three different releases which Standard, Pro and Extended on July month. It requires Mac OS X 10.4.11. However, only Pro release will be for Mac platform and its price $450. I also checked the Extended release on their website and it requires the Unix based operating system.
Microsoft has been published update to the Office 2004 and Office 2008 one by one. Office 2008 12.1.1 already includes a critical update to development charges with stability and performance. With this update, some problems has been fixed successfully which breakdowns on Entourage, problems about Open XML format and could not open to downloaded documents by internet anyway. Update requires the Office 2008 SP1 and Mac OS X 10.4.9 or higher operating systems. Also, Office 2004 11.5.0 update includes development charges with stability and performance. Especially, some facing problems has been fixed on Office 2007 (Windows) and Office 2008 documents.
Manufacturer of accessories QickerTek announced a new product which Apple Juicz to MacBook Air users. Product privately designed, portable and pliable, it can works with solar energy. It collecting solar energy with its solar partitions easily, it provides to work MacBook Air and charging MacBook Air’s battery at the same time. You can take more 6 between 10 work period with this way. There are tree different models out there; 18 watts, 27 watts and 57 watts. Solar partitions can successively charge your MacBook Air with 4 hours, 8 hours and 5 hours.
Apple Juicz introduced to MacBook Air but it supports the MacBook and MacBook Pro models.Specially you’ll be need it in land and sea journey. Product price depends on capacity; $500, $600 and $1000. It comes with handbag.
Okay here’s one for the deep-pocketed Greens out there (or maybe somebody on assignment to the middle of nowhere). QuickTek is offering a line of solar chargers for the MacBook Air called the Apple Juicz. There are three models of increasing size: 18 watt, 27 watt, and 55 watt. They recharge a MacBook Air in 14, 8, and 5 hours respectively, but all this solar powered goodness doesn’t come cheap at $500, $600, and $1000. On the bright side though, they’ll throw in a “very cool Element carry bag” for free, which you’ll need as the largest one unfolds to 60 x 42 inches.
In addition to the solar panels you’ll also need a modified MagSafe power adapter. QuickerTek will upgrade yours for $25 or sell you one pre-modified for $100 (which includes car and airline adapters). They suggest that this would be the ultimate gift for a college student, but even as a geek prof I’d be tempted to take the lunch money of anybody I saw on the quad with 17 square feet of solar panel laid out on the grass. But maybe that’s just me.
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