The sources smuggling information to the MacRumor crew have released some neat little tidbits into the future of our beloved MacBook family. Apple is rumored to be in the late testing stages of an ultra thin 15″ MacBook Pro. We aren’t sure if this will have the Pro branding or get the sexy Air brand, but we can all agree this is a good step by Apple. Over the past couple years we’ve seen many updates to the entire line of MacBooks – most recently the...

We’re not going to lie. We’re still going through the honeymoon with our new 11.6″ and 13.3″ MacBook Airs. And even though we look forward to new Apple hardware releases to see what the company intends to keep us customers for another year, more frugal shoppers looking to save a few dollars can walk away with quite a deal. But for those who are looking to spend a little less for that Apple fix — the previous generation 11.6″ MacBook...

Fans of the MacBook Air and Mac Mini are no doubt cartwheeling around their living rooms right now as Apple just took the wraps off of newly tweaked hardware featuring among other things, the latest version of OS X (Lion) pre-installed. However, if the plastic MacBook was the gem of your eye, things are taking on a much more somber tone this morning — your entry-level jewel is now dead. In the age of sexy aluminum Apple hardware and ever falling prices products such...

We haven’t said much about the various MacBook Pro refresh rumors thus far, but with this morning’s more legitimate claims from an ever growing list of sources we can’t hold off any longer. First up, the 16GB SSD OS/boot drive rumors are all but confirmed. This dual-mode solution gives you a super fast boot/shutdown times and over OS responsiveness while the second HDD will allow you to store heaps of files. We’re hearing that Apple will also allow...

The funky-looking “Pentaglobe” screws that Apple started using in 2009′s MacBook Pro are continuing their assault on our iDevices. A video (after the jump) from iFixIt details Apple’s current plans of replacing the stock phillips screws with the newer, more tamper proof pentaglobe screws whenever customers bring their iPhones in for service. To most iPhone users, this change doesn’t mean much as they’ll never crack open their phones. ...