Bernie “made off” with a MacBook Pro
(Get it? “Made off”? NO ONE’S made that joke before, right?) Ahh, the zoom lens. What would tabloid journalism do without it? Take a look at this shot from the February 20th episode of ABC’s 20/20. Above: Bernie Madoff, holed up in his NY apartment, reading Macenstein. Looks like we know where at least $2000 of Madoff’s clients’ money went… Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Gregory for the tip! Read More
Review: Booq’s Boa Slimcase M90 laptop bag
When I upgraded from my 13-inch MacBook to my new 15-inch MacBook Pro, I discovered one of the hidden costs buying a larger laptop – namely, the need to buy a larger laptop bag. I put out a call to our faithful readers on Twitter looking for suggestions on good laptop bag manufacturers, and the name Booq came back on quite a few of them, so I decided to give them a try. Booq was nice enough to offer up one of their Booq’s Boa Slimcase M90 laptop bags for review,... Read More
“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 23
Thank you, we have our winner, this contest is closed. Congrats to faithful Macenstein reader Melinda!] On the Twenty-Third Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) A Gadget Protection Bundle from Speck – Including not one but TWO 17-inch SeeThru cases for the MacBook Pro*, as well as a PixelSkin case for the iPhone 3G (colors will be random, but sure to give your gadget quite a colorful makeover!). *Please note,... Read More
A drunken Pete Doherty and his MacBook Pro kicked out of a London Restaurant
An allegedly drunken and disorderly Pete Doherty (of Babyshambles fame… ahh who are we kidding? He’s famous for once dating Kate Moss) and his MacBook Pro were kicked out escorted out of the Cipriani restaurant in London this weekend. It’s rare indeed to catch celebs walking around with their MacBooks, but even rarer to find one dragging along the MagSafe adapter. From this shot it looks like he brought the power cord with him because he planned to watch... Read More
That ain’t right…
The folks over at Gearlog, bored of filling Pepsi bottles with Coke, decided to do the unthinkable, and put the Windows 7 pre-beta on a brand new MacBook Pro. While the installation went relatively smoothly, it seems the build they had was pretty rough. “The disc didn’t do much, sadly. The system was unable to get online, and various other Windows 7 features, such as the mouseover preview, were disabled. Windows 7 still retained some of its key functionality, however:... Read More
MacBook Pro battery has 20% less juice than predecessor
Remember during Apple’s notebook spectacular when Steve mentioned that the new MacBook Pro could get a whopping 5 hours of battery life (when using the lamer 9400M chip, that is)? Well, it looks like that number is even more impressive than it originally sounded. Ryan Block noticed that the new MacBook Pro’s battery actually has less juice to work with than its predecessor – about 20% less in fact. Whereas last year’s model packed a 5600mAh / 60Wh battery,... Read More
Can’t decide which MacBook event coverage to watch? Why not watch them all?!
Kind of like a sports bar on Sunday, 9to5Mac has created a Mac Geek’s “DirecTV” type viewing system where you can watch the MacBook event feeds from 4 different sites simultaneously. Coverage is available from Gizmodo, Engadget, ArsTechnica, and Computerworld. The page even auto-refreshes so you can just sit back and let your eyes bleed. While this is BRUTAL on a MacBook, it works just great on a 30-inch cinema display, so assuming you have one (or better yet,... Read More
The Top 5 reasons I feel the leaked MacBook photos are fake
The Mac rumor community has gotten so competitive these days that I am not surprised to see 9to5Mac and others have rushed to press with the latest “leaked photos” of the new MacBooks rumored to hit the Apple Store tomorrow. It appears a little thing called “fact checking” is the latest casualty in the race to “get the scoop”. Well, at the risk of adding some actual journalistic integrity to this media frenzy, I actually took 5 seconds and... Read More
First fake “leaked” MacBook Pro hits the web
Thoughts? Personally, I find the Apple Store employee shirt a little much. We’re closing in to October 14th, so this should be the first of many. [via faithful Macenstein reader chalkartist via iphonesavior] Read More
MacBook Pro destroyed with Axe at 300 fps
Have you ever wondered how a fight between a MacBook Pro and Cousin “Itt” from the Addams Family would have gone down? Well, get prepared to start wondering about something else, because we have your answer! Above: Warning! Contains extreme scenes of Mac abuse! Fanboys strongly cautioned! I’m thinking that this MacBook Pro may have died from natural causes before it was destroyed here using “black powder” and an axe, as I don’t think I see... Read More
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