Editor's note: This piece first ran shortly after the MacBook Pro added the T2 chip. However, given its inclusion in the new MacBook Air and Mac mini, a refresher is in order. The article also includes new information from Apple regarding the T2's capabilities. First off...
In contrast to the MacBook Air, this notebook’s speakers are placed on the bottom of the device, hence they fire downwards. As far as the ventilation goes, there is a reasonably sized grill for air intake on the bottom, while the hot air escapes from around the hinge cover....
The inside of the base of the U had electrical connectors, and the prongs of the U were attached to the rest of the device. The plug thus was inserted from overhead. Kind of hard to explain. I just tried an ASCII art diagram but it didn't work very well. The only problem with ...
Thecomplete lack of FireWireon the standard 13" MacBook means it can't be used in Target Disk Mode, as USB lacks the bus intelligence to support such a system. This also means that MacBook users will need to use the Ethernet-based Migration Assistant developed for the MacBook Air to ...
The circuit board inside the Macbook charger. The chip in the middle controls the switching power supply circuit. The two drive transistors (in the overview diagram) alternately switch on and off to chop up the input voltage. The transformer and capacitor resonate at this frequency, smoothing ...
10 panel sits inside much smaller bezels than did its predecessor, and those bezels are black, which helps to make the display appear to float in space a bit. Most PC-based laptops, with their 16:9 displays, have a huge lower bezel, but the MacBook Air does not. It’s an elegant,...
In particular, it makes the MacBook Air now seem like an odd name, now there’s something even … airier. I was curious to see how Apple would lay out the Mac line-up when the website came back online, and the answer is that it places it at the left-hand side of the laptops, ...
To start, there’s the CIE 1976 Uniform Chromaticity Diagram that represents the visible specter of colors by the human eye, giving you a better perception of the color gamut coverage and the color accuracy. Inside the black triangle, you will see the standard color gamut (sRGB) that is ...
the MacBook Air lacks FireWire as well and any way to add support for it. The promise of FireWire was not only derailed by USB 2.0 on the low end on most peripherals, but has also been supplanted by SATA and eSATA on the higher end in hard drive applications, leaving FireWire...