After the holiday season I decided it was time to replace my Macbook. It is a 2.1 ghz, maxed out at 4GB of memory. It was running Lion but barely. The keyboard was broken, some keys were sticking and two were missing. The battery had also gone bad. I was using the Macbook connected to a 24 inch monitor with
iTwin is billed as an "infinite capacity thumb drive" but this sells the device short - it's much more than this. Andy finds out what its capable of from Akash at CES Showstoppers. The basic premise of iTwin is a pair of USB devices, one of which goes in your work desktop, the other in your home (or laptop) computer.
KB Covers offer specialised keyboard covers for Apple Macs and MacBooks. Rather than dust covers, these are keyboard overlays which re-label for foreign languages or show keyboard shortcuts. A good example for the former is a foreign language student who wishes to use a keyboard with the studied country's layout and alphabet. Imagine the convenience for students of Arabic or
Apple's Time Machine has been a lifesaver for many people, especially when they've accidentally deleted an important file. However, it doesn't protect against fire, flood or theft when everything is lost. Enter Dolly Drive, a Time Machine-compatible cloud-based backup service. Available as a subscription service based on data usage, Dolly Drive looks like another Time Machine target to OS X
Henge Docks may be a name you aren't yet familiar with, but if you're a MacBook owner then you may want to get to know this company a little better. Henge Docks makes docking stations for the full line of Apple notebooks, including the MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro, and all sizes of each. Since Apple doesn't provide built-in
J5Create may be familiar to Apple Macintosh users as they're designers of aesthetic Mac accessories, but their latest gadget will be of interest to those of us with a foot in the PC camp. Here Todd talks to John about their new Wormhole Station. The Wormhole Station combined with the Wormhole cable creates a keyboard and mouse switch which not
Mike Mihalik from LaCie shows off their new Thunderbolt-connected hard drives for the Apple Macs, including the previously announced Little Big Disk and the new 2big, which has two internal 3.5" drives. Also announced was the eSata Dock, a docking station that connects legacy SATA devices via Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt offers seriously quick data transfer speeds with write speeds of 252 Mb/s and