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There is an update on the news yesterday about the first problems of youth found in the new Multi-Touch trackpad, which fitted the new range of Apple laptops, called Unibody. First, the malfunction appears to afflict the MacBook Pro, and not the MacBook, but the good news is that Apple has confirmed to be at work on the problem. A user, in fact, has contacted Apple via mail complaining about various anomalies.

The trackpad glass in certain conditions does not record the clicks, and the hinges at the base of the display have the unfortunate tendency to “shoot” and quit when forming a very acute angle, for example when you are lying on the bed. Immediately contacted by phone from Apple spokesman, the user has seen reassure both the behaviors of its new MacBook Pro.

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It has been confirmed that the new MacBook can accommodate a total of 6GB of RAM modules in 2 SO-DIMM. The new MacBook comes from the factory with a maximum of 2GB, configuring the computer at the time of purchase, you can order up to 4GB in two modules of 2GB each. In the case of the new MacBook Pro comes with a maximum of 4GB in the same format, 2 x 2GB each, but it seems that can be expanded up to unsuspected limits.

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This week there have been new MacBook and MacBook Pro metallized, the new generation with new graphics NVIDIA, unless you’ve been on another planet during the week you’ll know what I mean. But in the case of the MacBook Pro is only presented the 15-inch, on his older brother, 17-inch version only said that would be launched shortly.

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iFixit, as is tradition, publishes its own guidelines for opening and gutting the new MacBook and MacBook Pro. These guidelines should be bought for the future of one of these two machines as small bublias that you should keep in a safe place, because if you want to open one of the two machines and making sure not to lead you to go beyond the parts.

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Apple has not disappointed and has presented the new MacBook Pro, thinner, with no button on the _trackpad with magnetic closure and 15.4 inches. At the launch Jonathan Ive said the new way in which the MacBook Pro is built, now the metallic casing is more resistant than previous ones. Now using a single piece of aluminum with designs that can be made thinner but stronger, something that this 15-inch MacBook Pro is necessary.

The new MacBook Pro brings a new graphics processor from NVIDIA, which unites the power in the Intel processor and the graphic power of NVIDIA since it includes two video cards, a GeForce 9400M and GeForce 9600 GT with a total of 512MB of graphics memory and 32 graphics cores. As I was going to be an hour, includes port Mini DisplayPort, a port universal figure such as DVI.

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Apple Forums Discussions are virtual places where users write their own problems with Apple products and, through dialogue with others, trying to solve them. But the thread, found by Macenstein and published in 2006 by a certain abgerard has incredible: Help, I Can not Open My MacBook Pro! Is the topic.

Reading the various posts you can guess that the problem seems not so much a difficult opening the notebook, but that for which abgerard not want to remove the protective film placed above the key opening the MacBook Pro (really do not remember there was one, Editor’s note).

After the first recommendations, other users start to canzonarlo and take it around. The best is perhaps Grawlix who says:

You’re watching the MacBook Pro to the contrary abgerard. When you look at the notebook closed, the Apple logo on the top should be overturned.

A problem for this amusing anecdote remains unresolved: Do not know if abgerard has ever managed to open his MacBook Pro.

Filed the launch of 3G iPhone, Cupertino not remain with its hands and, according to the indiscretions circulating in these hours, starebbero preparing to give a substantial cooled to the historical family jewels, namely the range of laptops.

By the end of the summer, in fact, expects the restyling of all models, albeit with a new variable rate for each of the 3, depending on the age of the project.

Vediamoli then one by one, to clarify what we expect.

A group of 63 people - but the number could rise dramatically - believes that the MacBook Pro with Santa Rosa chipset of the first generation are suffering from serious problems that lead, after a reboot or a standby, to a black screen, as if the computer refuses to recognize the presence of the display, internal or external should be. The solution proposed by Apple is pretty drastic: it involves the replacement of the logic board.

The problem is especially serious because there is no artifice software, reset the PRAM / NVRAM / PMU or restore firmware that seems sanarlo. According to the results of debugging, it would appear that the machine wrong to identify the graphics card and then trade the Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT for Intel X3100 card. The list of reported cases continues to grow and can be found on a piece of Google Spreadsheet organized for the occasion.

Apple recommends these users replacing the logic board, but this does not seem to alleviate the problem: the display of many users is black back not long after, and in most cases had now expired warranty. If you have recognised in the description, immediately reported the matter on the forum Apple, so that measures can be taken as soon as possible.

FastMac has finally realized U-Charge, the shipper universal external battery Mac, compatible with most of the old Mac PowerBook G3 until the last MacBook Pro.

Available in 2 colors (white or black), U-Charge in version 10.8V coast $ 69.95 and is compatible with the following models of Mac:

PowerBook Pismo / Lombard
Clamshell iBook
iBook G3/G4 12 “and 14″
PowerBook G4 Aluminum (12 “, 15″, 17 “)
Titanium PowerBook
MacBook White / Black
MacBook Pro (15 “/ 17″)

In a working version 14.4V.

A small “revolution” as part of batteries for laptops both as regards the compatibility of the device with several generations of laptops, both as regards the price which is about one third compared to other shippers outside.

SmartSleep is a Preference System, used to determine how the dynamic behavior of the sleep of our MacBook or MacBook Pro, regulating when and how will simply standby or hibernation.

The sleep is the state of quiescence in which the computer’s memory is preserved by continuing to fuel the RAM. Instead, the sleep & hibernate - default in all portable Intel products from Apple - saves the state to disk, before proceeding with the actual sleep. The fundamental value of that system is that, in the case of replacement or battery, the computer is able to recover from where he left off with no loss of data.

The problem however is that since abbassiamo screen as the Mac actually goes on standby spend several seconds that many - myself included - are annoying. SmartSleep allows you to configure your laptop so that, for example, go easy on standby until the battery has a certain office and the entry into sleep & hibernate in case you fall below this threshold.

Free and compatible with Tiger and Leopard, you can proceed to download SmartSleep.prefPane from this page. After the download, double click on the file and install it for all users, then selected smartsleep this drawer and you’re in business.