Yes it’s a bit ponsey, but lovely bit of design…
Here at hard graft we like to customize and hard graftify everything and anything for that special twist. The iMac Slipper came out of the desire to have a piece of hard graft right on our desktop. Maybe you don’t really need one but isn’t it a really cool and unique way to customize your iMac or Cinema Display and show that you really care about the details?
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Start your credit cards gentlemen…
The order has been placed. An unnamed Concord Securities Analyst has confirmed to 9to5Mac that Apple has put in its order of 380,000 Sandy Bridge-powered MacBook Airs. The order is comprised of 11.6 and 13.3-inch models, all with Intel Core I processors and Thunderbolt ports like the recent MacBook Pro refresh.
The source has also confirmed both models will use the on-board Intel 3000 HD in lieu of discrete graphics. If the MacBook Pro 13-inch model is any indication, the Nvidia graphics of the current generation MBA should offer slightly improved benchmarks. Expect the 2011 MacBook Air to launch in late June or early July.
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An interesting little titbit around Apple change supplier from Toshiba to Samsung for their Macbook Air SSD storage, which seems to have delivered a nice little performance boost. Could this be a foreboding of a Core i5 update to the Air in June?
Anandtech has run some speed tests on the two blade SSDs and found that the original Toshiba device with the model number TS128C has a read speed of 209.8 MB/second and a write speed of 175.6 MB/second. That’s slower than the newer Samsung SSD with the model number of SM128C. The Samsung SSD has read speeds of 261.1 MB/second and a write speed of 209.6 MB/second.
While that read/write speed increase isn’t astonishingly faster, it is noticeable in real-world use. It’s also important to note that Anandtech can’t confirm that the newer SSD is manufactured by Samsung, but it is likely that is who makes it since Apple has used Samsung SSDs before and because the performance of the SSD matches Samsung’s 470 Series of blade SSDs.
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Every little geeks dream…
Awesome Mini Apple Store Tugs at Your Wallet, Introduces children to the magic of Apple, Includes store, figures, and 60+ accessories, Use your own real iPhone 4 as the screen behind Steve Jobs in the Keynote Theater
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Interesting tablet stand design, not sure it would do much to allay the anxieties of many arachnophobes though…
Once you clamp the stand around your tablet, it can rest at an angle anywhere between 0 and 90 degrees, giving you a fully-customizable viewing angle. you can even use the claws to attach the Spiderpodium to non-flat surfaces.
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If this is true (and it’s only an estimate currently) it’s pretty amazing, making every one in three macbooks sold an Air model. Now just hurry up and bring Sandy Bridge them…
Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tells AppleInsider that his most recent checks in Asia indicate Apple shipped a total of 1.1 million of its 11- and 13-inch MacBook Airs during the three-month period ending December, making the new breed of ultra-thin portables one of the company’s most successful Mac product launches ever.
via AppleInsider
