Tag: "laptops"

The new MacBook Pro is outwardly indistinguishable from the old MacBook Pro

Gap Stocks Up As MacBook Pro News Ruins Khakis

The new MacBook Pro line is nearly indistinguishable from the older model, with the only difference being the larger smile of smug self-satisfaction on the face of the user.

Readers, iPads, Netbooks, Non-Notebook Gadgets OK To Be In BackPack

Readers, iPads, Netbooks, Non-Notebook Gadgets OK To Be In BackPack

With more people using more gadgets on vacation, the TSA loosens some regs on traveling with gizmos. I think the iPad has something to do with it.

Mission Impossible Thieves Steal 20 Apple Laptops from Best Buy

Mission Impossible Thieves Steal 20 Apple Laptops from Best Buy

The article states: They didn’t appear on store security cameras. They cut a hole in the roof and came in at a spot where the cameras were obscured by advertising banners. And they left with some $26,000 in laptop computers, departing the same way they came in — down a 3-inch gas pipe that runs [...]

Laptops in School Raise Test Scores Dramatically, Privacy Non-Existent – Frontline

Laptops in School Raise Test Scores Dramatically, Privacy Non-Existent – Frontline

This short Frontline documentary shows students giving up their privacy while using school laptops when on school property, and unlike the total invasion of privacy story that broke around mid February, this Bronx school seems to have gotten it right. The grade improvements speak for themselves. But at what cost?
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Apple: Updating Programs But Not Processors

Apple: Updating Programs But Not Processors

Apple’s update of Aperture is more notable for what it didn’t update – namely the processors at the heart of the computers that will run the newly-updated Aperture.