Despite our hopes for renewed faith in the MacBook line-up, build quality issues still seem to persist in the refreshed Intel Core 2 Duo MacBooks. Reports on screen flickering and total screen failure, where no backlight is present, range in the higher percentile of common hardware failures. These failures are reported to be present out of the […]Read More
Apple has always been on the frontier of consumer electronics. Being one of the first to introduce IEEE 802.11g WiFi protocol in their consumer electronics line. Or popularly known as the Airport Extreme form factor, which represented a major advancement in its day, boasting a 54Mbps transfer rate over the earlier IEEE 802.11b standard, or Airportform factor, which […]Read More
The MacBook had us gawking in amazement; how and why Apple would come up with such an awesome product. Feature-packed with everything anyone might need on-the-go. From a built-in iSight to an IR remote to cheese off Windoze users (who currently don’t have an equivalent) in public. But… with all great things that attempt to […]Read More
Current batches of MacBook have reported high incidences of intermittent shut down. Although, initial remedies in the form of logicboard replacements seemed to have cured the issue, Apple has localised the issue to stem from a heatsink defect rather than a logicboard fault. If you have a MacBook that shuts down by itself without warning […]Read More
At time of writing, our sources have reported that the MacBook have yet to plato in its development. The defect rate for MacBooks still ranks in the higher percentile range. With that in mind, if you’re planning to pick up a spanking new MacBook now, be prepared for a possible visit to the Mac […]Read More
Another reason to consider buying a MacBook over a MacBook Pro is a little known feature that Apple has made an official user DIY upgrade. For the first time, Apple has released an Apple portable that comes with a hot swappable hard drive bay. Unfortunately, the MacBook is the only Mac portable that sports this feature, making the difficult […]Read More
The reported whine seems tied to the current level of CPU activity. Under very little load, an audible whine is reported that is presumably tied to the system’s CPU throttling for the sake of battery life. This whine is reported to be more frequent when the MacBook Pro is in dual core mode, when the […]Read More
There are a plethora of myths about batteries. Lithium-ion or Nickel-based batteries, they all share one thing in common – charge cycles. Apple’s definition of ‘charge cycles’ can be found at Apple’s Lithium-ion Battery care page and it goes something like this: “…using all of the battery’s power, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a single charge. For instance, […]Read More
If you press the power button on your Mac portable and it fails to power up, it can be due to a misbehaving Power Management Unit (PMU). One of the self-help remedies is to reset the PMU and in most models of Mac portables from the iBook G3 line onwards, this can be done simply by pressing […]Read More
Apple has done it again. The Apple rumour mill was a buzz with snippets of what an Intel Mac might look like but no one guessed that Apple would roll out a system that would outperform the current Apple PowerPC G4 line by as much as 4 times! Following Apple CEO, Steve Job’s, keynote speech at MacWorld […]Read More
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