Sources: MacBook Air battery replacements take only minutes

"Due to its ultra-thin profile, Apple's new MacBook Air was designed with an integrated 37-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery that is not user-replaceable. Though this has caused some initial concern amongst potential adopters, AppleInsider has learned that the replacement process is quite trivial."

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Confirmed: Bricked iPhones Rise From the Grave With Firmware

For all those unlocked iPhones out there that were bricked after attempting firmware upgrades, we have some great news. It appears that Apple's new 1.1.3 iPhone firmware rewrites either most or all of the phone's firmware, allowing for bricked iPhones to be brought back to life.

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Sony's Thoughts On the MacBook Air: They did it First/Better

During the Keynote, Jobs compared the Macbook Air to Sony's TZ ultraportable, implying it had a small keyboard and screen, was too thick, and was not that good. Here's what Sony thinks of the Apple MacBook Air:

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Apple Adds Five Apps To The iPod Touch -- For A Price

It's not all love for the iPhone today -- Apple just announced that Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather are all coming to the iPod touch. New touch owners get 'em all for free, but all of you early adopters will have to cough up: the bundle is going to set you back a whopping $20.

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MacBook Air doesn't have a user-replaceable battery

We sort of understood it with iPods, and we grudgingly accepted it with the iPhone, but the MacBook Air has a sealed, non-user-replaceable battery, and that means we're suddenly a lot less in love. We're digging for details on how much it'll cost to swap out -- and what Apple expects road warriors to do when their slick new ultraportable dies...

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Apple unveils the Apple TV Take 2! Admits first try failed..

Apple just admitted that the first Apple TV didn't quite work out -- so it's back with a new model that can access iTunes directly -- and streams movies in both DVD quality and HD with 5.1 surround.

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Google unveils new iPhone interface for Google Apps

Just in time for MacWorld, Google has announced sizeable improvements to it's mobile applications for Apple's iPhone. Applications that have been updated include Google Reader, Calendar, Gmail, iGoogle, Search, and Picasa.

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Just how thin is the MacBook Air?

So just how thin and lightweight is the new 13.3-inch MacBook Air. We've pitted it against the 13.3-inch Dell XPS M1330, 13.3-inch Sony VAIO SZ, and Apple's own MacBook to see how it stacks up, literally. Not bad Stevie, not bad.

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MacBook Air: Thinning my expectations

As many fellow gadget nerds might know, Apple released their new ultra-thin notebook this morning at the 2008 MacWorld Keynote. The MacBook Air boasts as the “world’s thinnest notebook,” and certainly lives up to that mark. However, it was soon that my excitement would begin to fade.

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Apple Introduces Manila Case,The World's Thinnest Case

MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO—Apple® today unveiled Manila® Case®, the world's thinnest case for the world's thinnest laptop, the MacBook Air. When empty, Manila Case measures an unprecedented 0.07-inches at its thinnest point, but its dynamically adaptable height goes up to a maximum of 6.9-inches, adapting perfectly to the MacBook Air

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Why iPhone +SDK, Firmware Is Better Than Your Jailbroken One

With today’s announcements, this over-hyped device has actually become more useful, powerful and promising. Not because it’s the best computer on the market, but because it’s the one in your pocket. PopMech is telling Jailbreakers to bring it on if they can beat it.

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Why iPhone +SDK, Firmware Is Better Than Your Jailbroken One

With today’s announcements, this over-hyped device has actually become more useful, powerful and promising. Not because it’s the best computer on the market, but because it’s the one in your pocket. PopMech is telling Jailbreakers to bring it on if they can beat it.

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Hands-on with iTunes movie rentals

Perhaps overshadowed by yesterday's MacBook Air announcement is Apple's big move into movie rentals. The fact that all the majors have joined the on-line offering makes it a compelling service to say the least. That is, if it's as easy to use as they say. Is it? Read on for the first hands-on.

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