Battery calibration recommended by Apple, why no utility?

Like virtually all mobile computer manufacturers, Apple recommends that users calibrate their laptop batteries every few months, as Scott pointed out a couple of years ago. Unlike many manufacturers, however, Apple does not include a utility to automatically perform a calibration. Given Apple’s …

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Apple Notebook Shipments Skyrocket 61%

This is a good news, poor news story. Let’s start with the good news!

DisplaySearch, a market research firm, is reporting that Apple’s sales of notebook computers are up 61% from 1st Quarter, 2007 to 1st Quarter, 2008. In that fiscal quarter, Apple shipped by 1.4 million notebooks, compared t…

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Found Footage: Boost your MacBook’s RAM

Have you ever thought about upgrading your MacBook’s scrawny 2GBs of RAM that Apple ships to something a little more deserving? Well, ChannelFlip has a very cool video showing you how to upgrade the RAM in either a MacBook or MacBook Pro. In addition they tested the performance of the 2GB and 4G…

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Run Spore Creature Creator on unsupported GMA 950 Macs

Quite a few users were frustrated to discover that the recently released Spore Creature Creator won’t run on Macs with Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics (basically older Mac minis and MacBooks). An enterprising TUAW reader has come up with a solution. Clancy posted the following directions:

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Korg nanoSeries music controllers

Korg is introducing the nanoSeries line (Japanese link, Google translation) of digital music controllers. There will be three USB-powered models: a 25-key velocity sensitive mini keyboard (nanoKEY), a 12-pad mini drumpad (nanoPAD), and a 9-fader mini mixer (nanoKONTROL). As you can see they’re…

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