“I decided to buy a new MacBook Pro this month, but I changed my mind at the last minute. And I’m glad I did. It’s looking like Apple is getting ready to release the next generation pretty soon,” Mitch Wagner reports for Computerworld.

“The rumors are starting to trickle out on Apple blogs. AppleInsider says that Best Buy is expecting new Apple hardware in March,” Wagner reports. “New MacBook Pros will likely use Intel’s new mobile processors.”

“I’ll decide whether to buy a MacBook Pro when I see what Apple offers in its next generation,” Wagner reports. “I expect to buy an iPad when they become available next month. Maybe two; my wife is eyeing them hungrily. And I also expect Apple will come out with a new iPhone this summer, as they’ve done for the last three summers; and when they do, I’ll upgrade my iPhone too. So even if I don’t get a new MacBook Pro, Apple’s going to be getting a lot of my family’s money this year.”

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Source: MacDailyNews

Steve Ballmer signs a student’s Macbook during his visit to Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee on January 20, 2010:

Direct link to video via YouTube here.

Source: MacDailyNews

“Quanta Computer is expected to ship 3.5-3.7 million notebooks in January 2009 [sic] mainly benefiting from shipments of one million MacBooks to Apple, according to industry sources,” Max Wang and Joseph Tsai report for DigiTimes.

“Apple shipped about seven million notebooks in 2009 with most of the orders placed to Quanta and some to Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry),” Wang and Tsai report. “Apple’s monthly order volume to Quanta has also grown from only 300,000-400,000 units in the first half of 2009 to one million units in the fourth quarter of 2009, the sources noted.”

Full article here.

Source: MacDailyNews

Fans of platinum-selling R&B artist John Legend bring the same high expectations for each new album to every live concert. On his current tour, Legend, music director Eugene “Man-Man” Roberts and his band meet and beat those expectations by playing their best studio sounds along with fresh live riffs through MacBook Pro laptops running Logic Studio and MainStage.

Just recently, Apple released new 13- inch  and 15-inch MacBook Pro having a feature never seen in an Apple laptop: a Secure Digital (SD) memory card reader.

The reader is handy for transferring videos and photos from a camera, but you can also use the reader with an SD Card startup disk. This is helpful for when you need to troubleshoot the MacBook Pro.

Roman Loyola of Macworld provided a video on how to create a SD card startup disk for the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros. The video can be found in their Youtube channel: Macworld. Materials needed are SD card with a capacity of at least 8GB, and the OS installation disc that came with the laptop.

Download Macworld Video #114

• Format: MPEG-4/H.264
• Resolution: 480 x 272 (iPhone & iPod compatible)
• Size: 11.5 MB
• Length: 4 minutes, 3 seconds

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CNET has reported that Apple acknowledge the problem on hard drives of macbook pro on 500 GB 7200 RPM and promised a softwarre fix to address the issue although no time frame for release was given.

“We are aware of the issue and are working on a software update,” Apple representative Bill Evans, told CNET News on Monday. He gave no time frame for the release of the software update.

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