A recent Geekbench post appears to suggest a Apple MacBook refresh will be with us sooner than later. The processor shown is listed as an Intel Core i7 M 620 running at 2.66GHz with a Turbo frequency up to 3.33 GHz.

The online Apple Store has been down since Tuesday morning ahead of a possible hardware refresh of Apples notebook lineup. The Californian firm is expected to enhance MacBooks and MacBook Pros with Intels 2010 family of Core i5 and Core i7 processors. A recent benchmark supposedly representing an unreleased MacBook Pro running a 2.66GHz Intel Core [...]

It seems like a MacBook Pro update is coming, and Apple has been talking to wireless carriers about its iPad. So why not offer 3G on its laptops, too?

A possibly last-minute slip hints that Apple may be close to updating the MacBook Pro line. One Best Buy employee notes that all MacBook Pro models have been deleted from the company's inventory system, preventing them from ordering new models. The systems can still be found but are listed as "deleted."...

For your viewing pleasure, we present the latest Apple rumor doing the rounds this Saturday afternoon -- namely, GeekBench results for a "new" Core i7 MacBook Pro. According to the results, what you're looking at above are the numbers for the MacBook Pro 6,1, sporting a nastified Intel Core i7 (dual core, not quad) 620M ( Arrandale ) percolating along at 2.66GHz. Other curious points here are ...

Theres a pretty gnarly GeekBench result running around which appears to be for a new model MacBook Pro 6,1 to be exact running a crazyfast 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 620M , one of the Arrandale chips Intel announced at CES . (more)

If there is ever any word that best describes Apple its showmanship. And Steve Jobs is master at this craft. With the iPod, Apple re-defined an existing market and launched a product that created the illusion that it would alter the way we did things.

Apple's online retail Web site went offline Tuesday morning, leading to speculation that the company is about to introduce updated versions of its MacBook Pro lineup.

A new Apple job listing strongly indicates that cameras are coming to future iPads. The company's Cupertino headquarters is hiring a QA engineer for its iPad Media division, with the specific intent of testing still and video camera capture, as well as playback. The first-generation iPad, which has yet to ship, lacks any form of camera....

InFocus today revealed a wireless solution that eliminates a wired connection between your Mac laptop and InFocus projector . Now set free from the tether of digital projectors, the InFocus DisplayLink Wireless system is a pair of small USB sticks which connect to InFocus DisplayLink-enabled projectors to share HD content on big screens from your MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air portables.

To be the most design-savvy techie in the coffee shop, you'll need to pay more than $4,000 for Apple's iPod, iPhone, iPad and MacBook.

It's too big and "smarted out," says maker of the Modbook, which morphs MacBook laptops into tablets.

NVIDIA today formally unwrapped Optimus, a hybrid graphics technology that it promises will solve many of the problems of performance and battery life on notebooks. It can switch from integrated to dedicated graphics and back while the system is still active and logged in, providing a completely transparent experience for power saving; users can run on Intel's integrated graphics to save power ...

ATI's newest graphics card brings DirectX 11 and its Eyefinity technology to small-form-factor desktops.

UPDATE: The Apple store is finally back online and it looks like the only thing added was the recently announced photography software package, Aperture 3 . To say people aren't pleased with Apple would be an understatment... as many were hoping for the new Core i5 and i7 MacBooks. Are you let down that nothing else was added to the Apple Store? Let us know . ORIGINALARTICLE: Sometimes when the ...

iPhone repair shop iResQ claims that it has the front panel component of the next iteration of Apples iPhone , and it has posted a few photos to demonstrate a couple of ways the handset will differ from its predecessor. If these pics are legit, then the new iPhone will actually be one-fourth of an inch taller than all of the previous three models. Presumably this is to make room for a new ...

"Loyalty comes at a price. For Apple, it's between $1,600 and $4,100," Jason Notte writes for TheStreet. "With the launch of its iPad tablet last month, Apple established the four pillars of its tech toy box.

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Apples MacBook family of notebooks is overdue for a hardware refresh. A benchmark posted last week suggests the 17-inch MacBook Pro might run the top-of-the-line Intel Core i7 M620 processor and the score suggests a favorable jump in performance over the existing line of the Core 2 Duo-based MacBooks. More precisely, the unreleased MacBook Pro [...]

Beginnings can be tricky. There are plenty of pitfalls when opening a new studio, including over-spending, under-spending, too much confidence and not enough.

Whenever Apple Store goes down, its a moment of geek bliss, especially if you like Apple products. What will Apple launch this time? Will they just announce minor changes to some of their Macbooks, or do they have something really interesting in store for us this time? In any case, the Store is down now , so feel free to share your guesses on whats coming once it goes back up again. Lets just ...

Parallels Desktop 5 and VMware Fusion 3 get faster, smarter, and optimized for Windows 7, while Suns VirtualBox 3.1 lags behind

Apple's MacBook Pro could receive a Core i7 update if rumors are to be believed.

Starting on Wednesday you should be able to walk into most Barnes & Nobles stores and purchase a Nook. Is the excitement for the B&N e-reader still there? Also, Apple is in the process of updating their store this morning. Could it be time to pre-order an iPad?

In its latest Head-to-Head: Parallels Desktop for Mac vs. VMware Fusion article, MacTech said it performed more than 3500 tests on both single- and multiprocessor desktop and mobile Mac models. The study looked at the two main virtualization solutions on the market, as well as both 32-bit and 64-bit performance...

Apple was a bright spot in 2009 in terms of PC sales, but the signals are mixed as to whether the Mac can grow beyond its niche

I know that rolling your eyes at all the hype around Apples latest hotly anticipated device has now become nearly a clich in itself, and the example Im about to flag is surely not the most egregious thing out there.