Posts Tagged ‘macbook’

A few people have emailed me asking for the driver to fix Windows 7 sound on newer-model MacBooks (2008 and onward). Luckily, I already found it and have posted it over on CentralGadget.com… jump over there at the link below. MacBook Having Windows 7 Audio Trouble? We’ve got your driver fix… – CentralGadget.com

I’m really surprised at how many sites are “breaking” the rumor that there will be a new Mac mini at Macworld Expo. I was telling people at public meetings weeks ago that it was a lock for Macworld… and I’ve been talking about the new mini since the MacBook went GeForce 9400M. The Mac mini [...]

Perian is a popular QuickTime Component, which adds several formats to QuickTime. This allows you to play everything from Divx to Flash Video inside of QuickTime, all with one simple tool. It’s great, and I wish Apple would incorporate as much of Perian as possible into QuickTime. However, there is one problem. Perian replaces Apple’s [...]

If you own a MacBook Pro (Early 2008), the model that was just discontinued, it looks like you’ve got a bit of a reason to be ticked off. See, Apple never enabled the older MacBook Pro’s onboard H.264 decoding abilities. That means when you watch an H.264 movie, your CPU spikes to (or near) the [...]

That’s right. Even if you use Boot Camp, you’re stuck at Bluetooth 2.0 on your Windows-powered MacBook. I didn’t realize this until I considered getting one of those nifty MacBook Air units now that they have reasonably good graphics. Not that this would really tip my decision either way… but Microsoft added support for Bluetooth [...]

If you own a MacBook Pro with an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M… you might want to hear this. You may know it’s under recall, if the graphics chip fails. Apple has doubled the warranty to two years on the system’s GPU. But, if I know my readership, you don’t want to wait for it to fail [...]

Today the media was abuzz about how Apple’s market cap has sustained itself beyond Google’s. That didn’t hold for today, but by the end of business yesterday, Apple was number one in Silicon Valley. And what was the reason attributed by many financial analysts? Word of the impending release of a new MacBook Air. It [...]

I’m just wrapping up an all-day restoration of my MacBook Pro… complete with clean install of Leopard. I was at a lunch the day before, talking up how my MacBook Pro has been running without a hitch, while everyone else was complaining about MacBook failures. I was asking for it… and boy did I get [...]

Users that want a 12-inch MacBook Pro really bad (myself included) now have their own discussion forum. As I’ve noted in the past, I think that there’s still plenty of room in the Mac Portable lineup for a 12-inch MacBook Pro. This is a system that would replace the 12-inch PowerBook G4. Unlike the MacBook [...]

One of the things that really irks me about Dell, is their laptop keyboards. They’re downright horrible in terms of noise pollution. I’m soft sound sensitive. That means if you’re chewing gum, I can hear it. Yes, it bothers me. And yes, you’re a complete moron if you chew anything with your mouth open (don’t [...]