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Oct 29 2008

Tom Bihn adds laptop bags for new 15-inch MacBook Pros to their catalog

I am a huge Tom Bihn fan. This is a company that listens to its customers and makes some great products. I cannot recommend them highly enough.

Today, Tom Bihn announced sizes of their Checkpoint Flyer checkpoint friendly laptop briefcase and Brain Cell laptop case specifically for the new 15-inch MacBook Pro.

If you’re not familiar with the Checkpoint Flyer Briefcase, watch the video embedded here. It is the first airport security “checkpoint friendly” bag designed specifically for Mac laptops.

The Brain Cell is a laptop sleeve designed to be used alone or clipped securely inside a variety of Tom Bihn bags. Brain Cell compatibility in a Tom Bihn bag means that you will not just have your laptop held securely during transit, it also means if you buy a new laptop of a different size, you need only update the Brain Cell to make it fit in your bag!

The Checkpoint Flyer sells for USD$220 USD (including laptop insert). The Brain Cell (Size 4Z) sells for USD$60. Both are available for pre-order from the Tom Bihn website and ship by late November.

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Oct 10 2008

MacBook Pro– Distorted video or no video issues…NVIDIA to blame

From the “Sucks to be you” file, comes word of this MacBook Pro malady. Evidently, MacBook Pros manufactured between May 2007 and September 2008 (yes, your brand new baby) with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processors (MacBook Pro (17-Inch, 2.4GHz), MacBook Pro (15-Inch, 2.4/2.2GHz), MacBook Pro (Early 2008)) are exhibiting a problem that NVIDIA publicly acknowledged back in July. The cards in question have a higher than normal failure rate due to a packaging defect.

The finger here is pointed directly at NVIDIA as they assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. Now that seems to have been untrue. Apple’s own watchdogs have discovered that some MacBook Pro computers with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor are indeed being affected.

Don’t be overly concerned, Apple has stepped up and if the NVIDIA graphics processor in your MacBook Pro has failed, or fails within two years of the original date of purchase, you’re covered even if your MacBook Pro is out of warranty.

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Nov 1 2007

Don’t look now, but there are new Mac portables afoot

It’s as if Apple didn’t want anyone to notice, but of course many have (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Apple’s line of MacBooks and MacBook Pros were updated this morning without celebration or announcement.

The MacBook now has the 64-bit Santa Rosa architecture and is available with Core 2 Duo processors at 2.0GHz and 2.2GHz. It also has a faster GMA X3100 graphics processor but remains at USD$1,099 (2.0GHz/80GB/Combo), USD$1,299 (2.2GHz/120GB/SuperDrive), and USD$1,499 (2.2Ghz/160GB/SuperDrive).

macbooks 20071101 203313 Dont look now, but there are new Mac portables afootThe USD$2,499 15-inch MacBook Pro and 17-inch MacBook Pro now come with a 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor.

[ Via ThinkSecret ]

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