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Appletell Exclusive: 10.5.3 Very Soon?

This is by no means a guaranteed outcome, but an Apple representative I spoke with seemed very confident that we will see an update from Apple very soon. I had called Apple about my MacBook Pro. About every 4 times I put it to sleep, it would wake up, but the screen would not come more »

MacBook Air uses special version of Leopard

This shouldn’t be any huge surprise, but Apple documentation confirms that the MacBook Air uses a specialized version of Leopard.

Apple’s technical documents confirm that the version of Leopard is made exclusively for the MacBook Air.

The Mac OS X 10.5 installation media that shipped with your MacBook Air is designed for use on this computer only and not intended for any other computer. The installer prevents this software from being installed on other Macintosh computers.

External Superdrive exclusive to Air

Apple has always been one to do things differently. Apparently, they made the external MacBook Air Superdrive different as well. It sounds like this drive can only work with your MBA, and not any other Macs or PCs. Now Apple didn’t do this to be mean. They wanted to create a Superdrive that could be more »