Review: MacBooks trade up
Since its debut in May 2006, the MacBook family has earned a place in the pantheon of Apple’s all-time greatest hits. The sturdy, Intel-powered notebooks have been so popular with consumers, especially students, that they’ve helped the company nearly double its laptop sales over the last year and grab close to 10 percent of the U.S. retail market. Our review finds that Apple’s MacBook line, already a hit with consumers and students, is even more appealing with faster CPUs, bigger hard drives, and more memory in the base model.
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Parallels on Thursday announced Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac. This new version supports 3D gaming and adds a new feature called SmartSelect, which is billed as “an integration tool” that lets you open up any file from Windows or Mac OS X using an application from either operating system.
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Earlier, Chris Breen noted that iTunes 7.2 had trouble syncing certain MP3 files to an iPod. Specifically, if you burn a playlist of iTunes’ protected music to a CD in iTunes 7.2 and then rip that CD in the MP3 format, those MP3 tracks won’t copy to an iPod. Chris shows you how to put things right by recreating your iTunes library.
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