A trio of online advertisements that appear to have been published prematurely by one of Apple's international online stores suggest it's only a matter of days before the Mac maker takes the wraps off of new families of ultra-thin iMacs, lighter & thinner plastic MacBooks, and mo …

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Research firm Wedge Partners thinks so. They assert in a note today that the company will release both new iMacs and new MacBooks "in the next several weeks."

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Police are searching for the five bandits who hit the Apple Store in Marlton, New Jersey. It happened shortly after 2:00 a.m. at the Promenade Shopping Center on Route 73.

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Once rumored for extinction, Apple's entry-level polycarbonate MacBooks are on the verge of a refresh that will solidify them at the base of the Mac maker's notebook offerings for the foreseeable future, AppleInsider has learned.

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A new study suggests students prefer low-cost netbooks over Apple's MacBook, but some believe the Mac-maker's long-rumored tablet could take a large portion of low-end laptop sales.

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A $99 iPhone and cheaper MacBook Pro laptops are announced in tandem with the new, pricier iPhone 3G S. Apple also expects higher profits from apps.

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Glenn Lurie, AT&T's Emerging Devices president, has hinted that the company might be talking with Apple about subsidized notebooks tied in with wireless data contracts, according to an executive interview with Fortune.

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While Apple on Friday announced modest price cuts on a handful of Macs for its 24 hour sale, several of the company's authorized resellers have stepped up to offer much steeper discounts, including OnSale.com and ClubMac, which have cut $200 off some unibody MacBooks and $300 off …

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Apple will likely produce a netbook within the next two years, says analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray.

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High Definition Content Protection—the annoying DRM-y thing that's supposed to stop people from copying hi-def stuff as it travels over a card-display connector— has apparently, and unfortunately, come to Apple's MacBooks.

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Both Apple and ASUS have dramtically cut their notebook production going into the fourth quarter of the year, says the Commercial Times.

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Redesigned MacBooks may already be enroute to stores, claims an analyst from Citigroup. Richard Garner cites "field checks," which suggest that the shipment process has begun.

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Schools and universities are often big fans of Apple products, which usually translates to labs and laptop carts full of Macs. Educational institutions across the country have also started to provide students with personal laptops.

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It's never clear in the early going exactly how many people as a whole run into problems with Macs, since things get quickly blown out of proportion under the intense scrutiny paid to Apple. But the basic complaint seems to be: this ain't what we thought it would be.

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Apple may have tipped its hand and revealed a near-term update to its 13-inch MacBooks and potentially its Mac minis, based on files discovered inside Mac OS X Leopard's system folders.

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Q: Taking a look at the Board of Directors it's strictly a Y chromosome club. Do you see any women joining the Board of Directors at Apple in the future, maybe a lesbian—totally hot, of course—to make up extra diversity points?

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Owners of Apple's Core Duo Mac notebooks who are bummed over a lack of 802.11n wireless support within their systems may find some consolation in learning that they can overcome the limitation with some determined jury-rigging.

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I believe 2007 will be yet another exciting year for fans of Apple. Undoubtedly we'll see a handful of new hardware specs announced that will set our mouths-a-salivating, and our wallets-a-weeping.

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MacBook owners just can't seem to get a break, it seems.

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Apple Computer has acknowledged that a problem exists with some of its Intel MacBooks where the notebook computers may intermittently shut down, but has vowed to fix those systems free of charge.

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Shares of Apple Computer rose to a 4-month high on Thursday after one Wall Street analyst raised his estimates for the Mac maker, saying the company is likely to announce a major move into the digital home next week.

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-- Now here's a remarkable thing that the Macworld team has turned up in its lab tests.

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