All Entries Tagged With: "MacBooks"

MacBooks enter a golden new age of anti-piracy cruft: HDCP for all

It has come to pass that HDCP – High-Bandwidth Digital Content

Protection (or, in this case, DisplayPort Content Protection) – is now built into the new MacBooks to protect iTunes Store media. Most of the content is not protected but it seems some newer videos are, which means you can’t play them over a non-HDCP compliant [...]

Apple: No 9600M GT capabilities for you!

Back when we announced ahead of time that Apple was switching to an NVIDIA chipset, you might have taken a look at what was then already suspected of being the new laptops’ GPU. Notice if it promises anything the MacBook Pro doesn’t have? Like say some major selling points like Hybrid SLI and on-the-fly switching [...]