IVEA Keyboard Silicone Cover Skin for New Aluminum Unibody Macbook Pro 13" 15" 17" - BLACK

I am looking to switch from an HP laptop to potentially a mac. I saw on apples website that i can get a refurbished 13" Aluminum Macbook Pro for $899 and a three year applecare plan for $250. Together thats just about equal to a new 13" aluminum

A: Get the refurbished one. Apple does an extraordinary job of refurbishing their products. Also, get the AppleCare either way. AppleCare is free on all Apple products for a year, and you can buy it anytime before that year is up. So, even though I STRONGLY

Bird Electron EP-15V Gives You A New Way To Recharge Your MacBook Air ...

Though it looks like nothing so much as a battery charger, it’s actually quite the opposite. The EP-15V lets you take those eight C batteries I mentioned earlier, plug them all in, and create a 12 volt power source that’s sufficient to recharge your laptop of choice. In fact, it’s actually sufficient to give your 11.6 inch variety of MacBook Air an extra two hours of life.

The charger hit shelves today…in Japan, not surprisingly, so if you’re interested in one of these you’d better have a good importer ready to work for you, and weighs 2.3 pounds by itself  (more when you add in the batteries) and will even come with an optional airline adapter (which goes by the not at all surprising name of the MagSafe Airline Adapter).

The pricing, meanwhile, is just this side of outlandish: you’ll be able to get the EP-15V itself for about $250 (19,800 yen) and the MagSafe Airline Adapter, meanwhile, will sell for an extra $75 (5800 yen)

Source: TFTS (blog)

Apple's next MacBook Air will be the new flagship Mac — Apple News ...

That update is on the way soon, according to a new report, and I’d be surprised if we didn’t see it arrive right alongside the operating system that seems tailor-made for it: OS X Lion. With its next iteration, it could be getting ready to step into the spotlight as the quintessential Mac computer....

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