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Last month Apple came forth to make an announcement in regards to textbooks. The tech giant announced that they would be giving consumers the ability purchase textbooks that have been specifically designed for use with iPads. While this may be great news for students and teachers, the average consumer probably cares more about a new hardware announcement than digital textbooks.

Luckily, it seems that we won’t be waiting too long until Apple comes forth with the next generation iPad 3. New reports have surfaced that say the company will be coming forth towards the beginning of next month to launch the iPad 3. What exactly this new iPad will feature has yet to be confirmed but rumors suggest a high definition display, a quad-core Apple A6 processor, improved battery life and 4G LTE connectivity.

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Apple made Lion, its eighth major OS X release, available to Mac computer users on July 20th, and the Cupertino-based tech giant noted in the first sentence of its press release that Lion includes “more than 250 new features.” Unfortunately for a seemingly large group of users — this editor included — the only new features that really mattered were the numerous annoyances that came to light after just a few minutes of usage. The new autocorrect, the annoying new event behavior in iCal, the lack of key repeat, the bizarre defaults set throughout the OS… we could go on for quite a while. Some love these new features while others seriously considered rolling back to Snow Leopard.

While unhappy users will have adjust to much of the new behavior if they wish to continue using Lion, there is now an answer for several common gripes: Lion Tweaks. Developed by “Fredrik W,” Lion Tweaks allows users to dial back some of the improvements that are common sources of agony, including the new spelling correction feature, a bunch of annoying animations and more. Lion Tweaks is at version 1.2 right now, and it looks like the app is being actively developed, so we can hopefully expect new capabilities soon. Hit the break to download the utility from the developer’s site.

Apple laptop batteries can be hacked to infect the laptop with malware, or possibly even rigged to explode, a well-known security researcher has found.

All modern laptop batteries have logic chips inside them that communicate with the computer they’re powering. That’s how you’re able to see how much charge is remaining. The chips also carry out regulatory tasks, such as shutting down the charging process when a battery’s at risk of overcharging.

But any logic chip has operating software — “firmware” — and that software can usually be remotely updated.

Charlie Miller, who’s famous for winning the annual Pwn2Own contest four times with his Mac OS X and iOS exploits, discovered that Apple puts the same password on all its laptop batteries in order to efficiently send out battery firmware updates.

Unfortunately, a skilled malicious hacker armed with the password could alter the firmware, Miller says. Altered firmware could be used to store malware or tweaked to damage the computer.

“These batteries just aren’t designed with the idea that people will mess with them,” Miller told Forbes tech blogger Andy Greenberg. “What I’m showing is that it’s possible to use them to do something really bad.”

Miller will be presenting his finding at next week’s Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. He has already notified Apple of the vulnerability, and is not revealing the password.

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Miller, who formerly was with the National Security Agency and currently works for Denver security firm Accuvant Labs, was intrigued by a 2009 firmware update that Apple had sent out to fix a problem with MacBook batteries. Read more…

What is this update? More than it seems at first glance. But first silenced the holders of the old MacBook – get the ability to port Mini DisplayPort connector is left. With regard to possible changes in the matrix has not happened. Apple a1175‘s the same 27-inch LCD panel technology from IPS. The brightness (375 cd/m2), contrast (1000:1), the viewing angle (178 ° / 178 °), response time (12 ms) and resolution (2560h1440 points) remained unchanged. This monitor is ideal for professional graphics: Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, Final Cut Studio and so on.

The middle of summer – the quietest time of year. But not for Apple! In the middle of the hot season, the company is located in a quiet set of new products. Thunderbolt but after the introduction of a wave that began in the late winter of this year, along with updated MacBook Pro, was the appearance of the user in all other products of the company’s only a matter of time. And now the turn of the MacBook Air, Mac mini and Apple Thunderbolt display.However, if you connect to the Thunderbolt display port on the Apple powerbook g4 battery, then on the back of the monitor “live” three-slot USB (or 2.0) port FireWire 800, RJ-45 offers (the data transfer rates of up to 1000 Mb / s) and another port Thunderbolt.

Today we are focusing on the new ultra-compact notebooks, and a little on the monitor. Their joint announcement was clearly planned in advance, and the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. But the new version of the operating system we will have a separate article, so that the here mentioned, only the “hardware”.For the third time we talk about the latest introduction of bus products in Apple Thunderbolt. But this time the company went even further – the new surface is not only the “Apple macbook pro battery” computers, but also to monitor. Even its name was changed by Apple Thunderbolt display before it as the Apple Cinema Display was announced. Read more…

Apple still has no plans to offer a netbook, if you define a netbook as a low cost ultraportable computer.

But Apple recently released  an 11.6 inch version of the MacBook Air, which at $999 and up is relatively cheap for an Apple laptop. And now the company is offering refurbished models for $849, making the company’s smallest and lightest laptop even more affordable.

Sure, you can buy two or three 10 inch netbooks running Windows for the same price, but good luck finding another computer with a Core 2 Duo processor, 1366 x 768 pixel display, 64GB SSD, ridiculously thin case, and NVIDIA graphics for that price. Oh yeah, it also runs OS X out of the box, no hackintoshing required.

The Apple MacBook Air MC504LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop is a compact laptop broughtforth by one of the major players in laptop manufacturers Apple, that is quipped with a two GB DDR3 SDRAM and a solid state hard drive of 256 GB.

It has a lustrous display that comes with a NVIDIA GeForce 320M processor of graphics. Plus it comes with an in-fitted Face Time camera and in-fitted stereo speakers, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, 802.11n Wi-Fi. Moreover it offers seven hours of non-stop productivity and has a standby time of thirty days. The Apple MacBook Air MC504LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop, works on the Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard Operating System.

The Apple MacBook Air MC506LL/A 11.6-Inch Laptop stands to be mobile in every form, shape and way.

It comes quipped with all-flash storage, a battery that lasts long, a multi-touch trackpad, NVIDIA graphics, an Intel Core Duo 2 processor and a display that has high-resolution. All of these features are available in one compact enclosure that is extremely light in weight is ultra-slim and sturdy enough to be handled by you for carrying out all your daily tasks while you are on the move. The Apple MacBook Air MC506LL/A 11.6-Inch Laptop offers a battery life of five hours. It comes with a classic spinning hard drive that is especially used in laptops for better functionality.

Really, TSA? Are you honestly so stoked to disappoint?

If you’ll recall, the American Transportation Security Administration got up close and personal with a first-generation MacBook Air after wrongly assuming it was an Apocalypse-bringer, and even after adjusting rules  so that iPads, netbooks and other smaller electronics could fly through carry-on screening equipment without being unpacked, we’ve still heard of (and personally experienced) occasions where agents have demanded that tablet PCs be ran through naked. If there’s a lesson to learn here, it’s that the TSA is consistently inconsistent, and you’re probably better off putting everything you own in a separate grey bucket for the sake of covering your bases. The same applies to Apple‘s new 11.6-inch MacBook Air, which is cleared to undergo TSA scanning while packed under the aforesaid amended rules. In theory, you shouldn’t have to remove it from your backpack as you struggle to reach your gate, but if we had to guess, we’d say you’ll be ask to take it out and re-run it if you try. But hey, you’re only being victimized and scrutinized in the name of security, so it’s all good. Trust us.

The versatile and technically marked Apple Macbook Air comprises the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor having more memory, more hard drive space and faster processor speed.

This is the thinnest notebook been manufactured to deal with the best brands in the market. This laptop is been offering attractive pieces and positioning up. This is an ultraportable laptop designed by Apple that connects to the MacBook Air with a single USB cable. Apple Macbook Air has the revolutionary design and the base models are been refreshed to the most specialized and pre-loaded techniques. This is a great laptop with extra-ordinary computing techniques.

Apple has released recently the updated MacBook Pro laptops with the new 2010 Intel Core processors, including the 17-inch MacBook Pro MC024LL/A.

The MacBook Pro MC024LL/A with the aluminum unibody enclosure features the Intel Core i5 CPU at 2.53GHz or Core i7 at 2.66GHz, a switchable graphics solution combining the NVIDIA GeForce GT330M 512MB video card and Intel’s HD graphics, 4 or 8GB of DDR3 memory, up to 500GB of hard disk space or up to 512GB solid state drive, the SuperDrive DVD burner, and a battery life of “8 to 9 hours”.

Its 1920×1200-pixel LED-backlit display has a glossy or anti-glare coating, depending on customers’ choice.

The notebook also includes a multi-touch trackpad and illuminated keyboard, iSight video camera, stereo speakers, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet, two USB ports, a Mini DisplayPort output, SD card and ExpressCard slots, and a FireWire 800 port.

Apple’s MacBook Pro MC024LL/A runs Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard.

Customers can buy the notebook online direct from Apple for a base price of $2,299 or through MacMall which offers mail-in rebates and instant off for a total of around $130 savings.