Expert's Guide to the Apple Store Experience
There are about 10,300 retail outlets where you can buy Apple computers, but Steve Jobs really wants you to visit one of the company's 250 stores to receive a superior experience.
Jobs has admitted that he conceived the companies chain of retail stores because authorized resellers weren't presenting his well-designed products with the proper level of flair and customer support. The first store opened in May 2001, and now the chain extends across the U.S. and into seven other countries, including a store in Beijing that opened this past summer.
Here are some pics of two MacBook Nano netbooks, which started life as a pair of MSI Winds. An Apple fanboy and his son applied a couple of stickers, stamped "MacBook Nano" on the bezel and installed OSX Leopard to complete the transformation.
Axiotron is now taking orders for Axiotron Modservice, a service that allows MacBook owners to turn any plastic Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook into a ModBook. The ModBook is the only way to get tablet functionality out of a MacBook. The Modservice will be available for $1,299 and up.
Last week Apple introduced a new touchpad that is void of any traditional mouse buttons. Instead, the entire touchpad is the button. The new MacBook's recognizes more gestures than previous versions since it recognizes up to four of fingers at a time.
The guys from iFixIt tore apart a new MacBook Pro to explore and see what it'll be like to repair them. The MacBook Pro is meticulously disassembled in a 33-step guide.
In the Apple notebook keynote Address, Steve Jobs and company talked a lot about progress in the educational retail markets, but they didn't talk at all about the needs of professional users. The MacBook Pro is a very impressive notebook in many regards, but it lacks many 'pro'fessional-grade features that are taken for granted on many PC notebooks.
Apple announced a complete revamp of its MacBook and MacBook Pro lineup today. The new MacBooks and MacBook pros feature an NVIDIA chipset that will deliver dramatically better graphics than previous Apple notebooks.
Apple's hosting a press event in San Francisco on Tuesday Oct. 14 to announce its new line of MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Apple is expected to replace the MacBook's plastic shell with an aluminum casing similar to the current MacBook Pro's.
This photo is supposedly the next MacBook Pro. Made out of a single 'brick' of Aluminum, the new MacBook Pro has a chicklet-style keyboard like the MacBook and MacBook Air.
Cosmetic refreshes for the MacBooks and MacBook Pros are long overdue, but they may be just around the corner. The guys over at
MacMall is having a closeout on MacBook Pros, with prices 
Apple's offering a free iPod Touch or iPod Nano to college-bound students and teachers with the purchase of any MacBook or MacBook Pro between now and September 15. The 8GB iPod Touch sells for $299, making it a very attractive bonus.
Andreas Haas, the CEO of Axiotron and inventor of the ModBook, showed Notebooks.com the latest version of the Modbook, which has a mirror finish and a new application called Axiotron Quick Clicks, which makes it easier to enter commonly used key combos.
A couple of hours after posting some pics and videos of the MacBook Air at MacWorld I got a text message alert that my wife had just updated her status on Facebook to "...secretly hopes Xavier gets the MacBook Air." Not wanting to disappoint her, I headed over to Apple.com and ordered one, which should arrive in a couple of weeks.
When Jobs said the MacBook Air was thin, he wasn't kidding. I spent some quality time with a MacBook Air and snapped this pic of my iPhone next to it. The base of the MacBook Air, which holds all the guts and brains of the laptop, is actually thinner than my iPhone!
I just spent about 30 minutes playing with a MacBook Air at MacWorld 2008. The MacBook Air is impressively thin, but Apple's asking users to make too many trade offs. Check out the quick video walk-through and photos below.
Last night I headed over to the BlogHaus (a suite at the Bellagio hotel that's set up with everything a blogger could possibly need to blog to the wee hours of the morning) and snapped this picture of a bunch of bloggers unanimously working on MacBooks and MacBook Pros.