According to a new Apple support document, issues with the rubber bottom of the white unibody MacBook coming off will now be covered by the company free of charge through a replacement bottom case. The issue has been caused by the glue used with MacBooks that have been purchased between October of 2009 and April of this year.

Funny, I remember there being a MacBook update on Apple’s website last week. If you look there now, instead of an update, you’ll find this message. “We’re Sorry. We can’t find what you’re looking for.” Oh really? Apparently, the update hasn’t done any good, and in some cases caused harm to the notebooks to which it was applied. There are reports of unusual audio problems, screen flickers and it didn’t fix the Dual Link DVI adapter anyway. I’ve had strange display issues since as well. Keep your eyes peeled for another update; I have a feeling it’s on its way.

Tomorrow I’ll be leaving the desktop computer behind and joining the throngs of middle management businesspeeps at Starbucks and college students at Pantera Bread (I know, but that’s what I call it) with my laptop computer. Many—if not most—of our readers will be thinking, “What’s the big deal?” You’re right. It shouldn’t be. I’m a man on the move, after all, and I’ve owned laptops before. But those computers supplemented my desktop machine, which is where I produced the bulk of my work and played the bulk of my games. It’s why I never had a problem selling them or trading in the laptops. I just didn’t need them.

Now, I do. As I find myself spending more time away from home, and with Macworld Expo 2009 rapidly approaching, I need to keep my computer with me to stay on top of work. The more powerful and reliable computer technology gets, the more I come to rely on it for common tasks. It’s becoming as integral to my modern lifestyle as my iPhone and my pants. So, it came down to this; can I live without a desktop computer? What are the positives and negatives? Will I suddenly feel the need to Twitter?

It was an agonizing decision, and here are the main issues that made it thus…

For the sake of jailbreakers and certain Dev Teams, we should all hope this is false, but rumor has it that the new unibody aluminum MacBooks cannot recognize the DFU mode required to jailbreak current iPhones and iPod touches. Some users in iPhone and iPod touch forums are reporting that their new laptops will not more »