Apple's battery claims: a bunch of hot Air? We're starting to see lots of articles about the MacBook Air, but what's catching our eye today are the battery tests. Here's a comparison of the battery life between the HDD and SSD versions, and also more real-world tests on the HDD version. And on the storage tip, more tips on putting your data on a diet to squeeze into the skinny-jeans 80GB hard drive—which is really more like 63GB after Leopard is installed.
Show me the 3G: AT&T is expanding its 3G wireless network, which should be in 350 markets (including the top 100) by the end of 2008. Could this signal the imminent announcement of a 3G iPhone?
Insert cow chip/computer chip pun here: The University of Wisconsin has sued Intel, claiming patent infringement on the Core 2 Duo chip. The suit asks for sales to be halted, so we hope that gets sorted out (preferably in Intel's favor) soon. However, go 8th-ranked Badger basketball!
Leopard, Safari to be updated soon: Apple has seeded a new build of Mac OS 10.5.2 to developers, as well as a new build of Safari 3.1. Hopefully we'll be able to get our upgrade on very soon now.
Software news: NetNewsWire has been updated to version 3.1.3, to fix some bugs. BusinessWeek gives a thumbs-up to Bento (look for the Mac|Life review in our next issue, April 2008). Save paper by printing your Keynote docs nine slides to a page. And get the lowdown on all the different Twitter clients for the Mac—just make sure you're following MacLife!
And randomly: You can control Gmail with the Apple Remote. That's pretty zany, right? But not as much as this: It's called iFob, and it seems to encourage social networking with close-by strangers. For people who are afraid to be alone, we guess... (Be careful out there!)
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