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Apple Replaces 17″ Antique With 20″ for Education

Written on April 14, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 2 people have commented

It wasn’t so long ago that the Internet was ablaze with news of the “new” 17-inch iMac for education priced at $899, which was actually a model they’d been offering, without updates, in that capacity for two full years at that point. Its “discovery” was in fact just people noticing something they’d never noticed before. [...]

Apple Releases 17″ MacBook Pro Graphics Fix

Written on March 26, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 4 people have commented

A while back we reported about issues 17-inch MacBook Pro owners were having with vertical lines and other distortion appearing on their displays. Almost three weeks later, Apple has released a fix for the issue. Officially dubbed “MacBook Pro Graphics Firmware Update 1.0,” it’s downloadable immediately via Software Update.
Apple doesn’t point any fingers regarding the [...]

The $899, 17-inch iMac for Education: Still Here, Always Has Been

Written on March 23, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 3 people have commented

News “broke” over the weekend via a leak from Apple itself that the company still offers the low-end iMac model with a smaller, 17-inch screen, though it is available exclusively for education customers. The news came via the Apple eNews for Education newsletter for March, although clicking the “Buy” link from the iMac page does [...]

Graphics Problems Surface With 17″ MacBook Pro

Written on March 06, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 13 people have commented

At this point, it seems like having some graphics issues is more of a “coming of age” thing for a new Mac product than something that surprises or worries us, though I’m sure if you have one of the affected MacBook Pros, you think otherwise.
Users are reporting in an Apple Support thread that the recently [...]

New MacBook Pro Battery: More, Longer, but Locked In

Written on January 06, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 28 people have commented

Well, the Macworld keynote has come and gone, and we received a lot of new software from Apple, but not too much on the hardware side. In fact, the long-awaited missing unibody MacBook Pro is the only machine to come out of the event. But it might not be the laptop itself which becomes the [...]

Quad Core MacBook Pro On the (Macworld) Horizon?

Written on December 30, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 1 person has commented

You may or may not have forgotten about the MacBook Pro’s larger self, the 17-inch model. Following its conspicuous absence from the lineup of new laptops announced at the notebook event which took place this past October, news came that Apple had not forsaken the bigger-screened version, but that its release was delayed due to [...]

17-inch MacBook Pro Will Be Late, Not Absent

Written on October 15, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 12 people have commented

Many noticed (and lamented) the lack of a 17-inch version of the updated MacBook Pro at yesterday’s notebook event. For those interested in Apple’s Pro line of laptops, screen real estate is a valuable commodity indeed. Designers need the space for working on large documents and layouts, and creative professionals need to be able to [...]