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Is this the Best Looking MacBook Air Case? The BookBook for MacBook Air

May 25, 2011 - 7 Comments
BookBook Case for MacBook Air

If you’ve been looking for a case for your MacBook Air, the newly released BookBook for MacBook Air may stop your search. The BookBook is lightweight, made of leather, fits snuggly on both the 13″ and 11″ MacBook Air models, and also provides a very unique anti-theft deterrent by making your fancy laptop look like … Read More

Accidentally Drop an iPad Out a Plane? Throw a MacBook Out a Two Story Window? No Problem with a G-Form Extreme Sleeve

May 8, 2011 - 9 Comments
G-Form iPad Sleeve

Think you’ll ever be in a situation where your iPad needs to survive a drop from 1/10th of a mile up? Do you ever get so frustrated with your MacBook Pro that you want to toss it out of a two story window, but you don’t want it to actually break? These are ridiculous scenarios … Read More

Mac Setups: Transitioning from MacBook Pro to MacBook Air

Apr 30, 2011 - 3 Comments
MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs

If you dream of Mac laptops you’ll like this one. From the looks of things, there’s a MacBook Pro 15″, MacBook Air 13″, MacBook Pro 13″, MacBook Air 11″, and a mystery Mac behind the the top two (maybe another MacBook Air 13?). All these Macs belong to Garrett Murray of ManiacalRage. If you’re wondering … Read More

Disable Wake From Sleep When Opening the Lid of a MacBook Pro

Apr 26, 2011 - 7 Comments

If you don’t want your MacBook Pro to wake from sleep when you open the lid of the machine, all you need to do is launch the Terminal and type the following command:

Mac Setups: Ultraportable Workstation with iPad & MacBook Air

Apr 23, 2011 - 6 Comments
Apple Ultraportables

Everyone loves the iPad and everyone loves the MacBook Air 11.6″, making this a perfect Mac setup for the ultraportable road warrior. Another impressive fact; these two devices have a combined weight that is still less than the MacBook Pro 13″ model, if that’s not impressive I don’t know what is. You could take this … Read More

Keep Magsafe Cords Out of the Way on MacBooks with a Neat Trick

Apr 17, 2011 - 6 Comments
Magsafe clipped to side of MacBook Air

Is that Magsafe cable cord getting in your way when using your Mac laptop? Try attaching the cord to the side of your Mac’s display by using the cables clip as shown in the pictures. This works with newer MacBook Pro’s, unibody MacBooks, and new MacBook Air too, it clips directly onto the side of … Read More

MacBook Air Now Shipping With Faster SSD?

Apr 16, 2011 - 5 Comments
New MacBook Air faster SSD

If you’ve bought a MacBook Air recently, you may have a faster SSD than a model that was purchased just a few months ago. The difference in read and write speed is noticeable, the above chart shows the ‘old’ Toshiba TS128C drive atop a ‘new’ SM128C drive, which Anandtech assumes is produced by Samsung, saying: … Read More

How I Fixed my MacBook Air 11.6″ Wake From Sleep Problems

Apr 5, 2011 - 27 Comments

After a bit of use, my MacBook Air 11.6″ started to exhibit a strange behavior, it refused to wake from sleep. I’d open the MacBook Air, hit every key imaginable, and the Mac just stayed asleep, nothing would get it to turn on. If you’re interested in this you’re probably affected too so before I … Read More

Worst Thing About the MacBook Air 11.6″ is… Finding a Sleeve That Fits

Mar 27, 2011 - 29 Comments

I love my MacBook Air 11.6″, it’s ultra portable, very snappy, all the things you’ve already read about it and more. The one thing I hate about it? Finding a sleeve that fits. If you’re in the same boat as me, here’s some advice; don’t shop around for a generic 11″ netbook sleeve that proclaims … Read More

Evidence Mounts for MacBook Air 3G

Feb 15, 2011 - 10 Comments

Evidence continues to suggest that Apple is deeply interested in bringing 3G communications inside future Macs, particularly the MacBook Air. Let’s look at two pieces of recent evidence to see if a MacBook Air 3G is destined for a future release.

MacBook Air Envelope Case Looks Discretely Awesome and I Want One

Feb 14, 2011 - 8 Comments

Is this the coolest MacBook Air sleeve on the market? Dubbed the Macvelope, this case is made to look like a traditional yellow office envelope, but they’re specifically made to snuggly fit the new MacBook Air series. This is about as discrete as a laptop case can get, and the inside is lightly padded with … Read More

Floating MacBook Air spotted in Apple Store

Jan 31, 2011 - 9 Comments

To show off just how light the MacBook Air is, an Apple Store came up with this awesome window display, yes that is a MacBook Air hanging from a balloon. OK so the balloon itself isn’t the only thing holding up the MBA, it’s also held in place by some wires, but who cares? It … Read More

Use a MacBook Air as a cutting board

Jan 28, 2011 - 7 Comments

I wouldn’t recommend this, but someone was crazy enough to apply a Zagg shield to their MacBook Air, and then use it as a cutting board to chop some peppers and a tomato with a large knife. I guess this is supposed to demonstrate how effective the Zagg shields are at protecting the MacBook Air, … Read More

Turn Off the MacBook or MacBook Pro Screen with the Computer Still On

Jan 14, 2011 - 26 Comments
OS X El Capitan on a Mac

You can turn off the internal MacBook Pro screen and still use the computer as long as it’s hooked up to an external display, and no you don’t have to use it in clamshell mode to achieve this. Here are two ways to keep your Mac laptop with the lid open but the internal display … Read More

Mac Setups: MacBook Air 11″ wasting time with Angry Birds

Jan 8, 2011 - 2 Comments

I really like the MacBook Air 11″ so it should be no surprise that I’m posting a picture of one, but this is also a bit of a homage to Angry Birds making its way to Mac OS X via the Mac App Store. If you don’t have Angry Birds yet, don’t get it, it’s … Read More

Mac Setups: Stack of Mac Laptops

Jan 1, 2011 - 6 Comments

Is this enough portability? A new MacBook Air 11″ rests on top of a unibody MacBook, on top of a MacBook Pro 15″, on top of a 17″ MacBook Pro. The more I see the new MacBook Air’s the more I like them. This picture also does a great job of demonstrating how Apple iterates … Read More

Make a MacBook Air look like a composition notebook

Dec 26, 2010 - 2 Comments

The MacBook Air is tiny and very notebook like as is, but one MacBook Air owner decided to take that idea one step further and create a composition notebook skin for his MacBook Air. The MacBook Air is beautiful as is, but I kind of like the topsheet and bottomsheet cover idea, I can’t say … Read More

MacBook Theft Tracking & Recovery Software – Hidden

Dec 23, 2010 - 23 Comments

Hidden is theft tracking software for Mac OS X that works to help you recover your stolen MacBook Pro (or MacBook Air, MacBook, and any other Mac OS X machine really). It works by laying dormant on your Mac until you visit the Hidden website and mark your computer as stolen, this then activates the … Read More

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