The MacBook Pro with Retina display is a unique machine. It’s Apple’s showcase of where the company is headed with its portable line of computers.
It’s chassis is unique, with lots of cutting-edge components crammed in a very thin space.
Turns out, that makes it unique to work on. Apple’s released a separate exam for the new machine, which is required by both Mac Geniuses and Apple-Authorized Service Provider-employed technicians.
On episode 21 of their show, I join the Mikes to discuss curiosity, my dogcow tattoo and more.
An innovative move for the Old Gray Lady.
Earlier today, I was alerted by @FloridaLegal via Twitter than a full copy of my ebook, Bartending: Memoirs of an Apple Genius was for download, free go charge, on a website named “Ebookee.”
The site describes itself this way:
EBOOKEE is a search engine of ebooks on the Internet (Hotfile Megaupload Mediafire Fileserve Rapidshare) and does not upload or store any files on its server. Please contact the content providers to delete files if any and email us, we’ll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
Apple believes that Retina displays are the only way to go from this point forward, and they’re waiting to update each family until it can be Retina-equipped.
All Thunderbolt-equipped Mac computers support this adapter. This adapter requires OS X Lion v10.7.4 or later. Thunderbolt-equipped Macs released prior to June, 2012, require the installation of Thunderbolt Software Update 1.2.1 to use this adapter.
I know it works like a dream on my Mid–2011 Air.
The Retina MacBook Pro is not only a groundbreaking release, combining stunning performance and portability in a 15-inch Mac laptop; this model will also force you to change the way you interact with a laptop. From overhauling how you view and work with content to how you deal with external devices and connections, Apple isn’t afraid to push its customers in new directions. The Retina MacBook Pro is certainly a more-than-gentle nudge.
…in an interview with Ars’ Jacqui Cheng:
This is one of the reasons it was so important to me, from a personal level, to bring Reading Rainbow to this new generation of kids, to try and do something about it. Here’s what I know: in 26 years on PBS, we were able to—through the medium of television—have an impact on the reading habits of children. I want to see if we can make light and do it again.
We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.
Tara Culp-Ressler at ThinkProgress:
A powerful installation on the National Mall today is meant to call attention to the nation’s current drop-out rate: the 857 desks represent the number of students who drop out of high school in the United States every single hour, according to the College Board’s calculations.
The new release makes it easier than ever to create new databased by including 25 built-in templates especially designed for iOS. 40 themes are included which provide coordinated backgrounds, fonts and shading for custom database creation. And access to FileMaker’s online “Bento Template Exchange” is now integrated, making it easier to find templates that other users have created. The Exchange currently hosts more than 1,000 free templates from Bento and FileMaker users.