Apple opens up repair program for some MacBook hard drives

This one goes back a few years, but Apple has now finally, officially confirmed a hard drive problem that has plagued some MacBooks, and it’s announced a repair program that will allow you to get your hard drive replaced even if the MacBook is out of warranty. The specific models covered are both black and white MacBooks from 2006 and 2007 with 1.83GHz, 2GHz, or 2.16GHz processors, and either 60GB, 80GB, 100GB, 120GB, or 160GB hard drives. As you may recall, the hard drive issue in question is a pretty nasty one that can leave your data unrecoverable, but it seems like Apple will only replace your drive once you’re stuck with the flashing question mark on boot-up — it’s just recommending that people backup their data in the meantime. Hit up the link below for the complete details.

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Runescape: Dane Cook – Breaking and Entering

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Kingston’s latest SSDNow V+ reviewed in 128GB flavor

Kingston’s SSDNow V+ series is hitting the streets, and bit-tech.net has put it, and its new Toshiba controller, through the ringer. That new silicon offers TRIM support in Windows 7, intended to remove any lingering fears of performance degradation, and this drive has been graced with 128MB of internal cache to conquer random read and write performance. In general the review finds that the controller does its job and TRIM’d deletes don’t have a major affect on performance, but there still was some degradation after 1TB worth of writes and deletes. Beyond that the included cache didn’t seem to help random I/O performance, and in general the drive doesn’t exactly dominate the benchmarks. So, if you’ve recently upgraded to something else and were feeling a bit of buyers’ remorse, you’re safe — for now.

Kingston’s latest SSDNow V+ reviewed in 128GB flavor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Poker Gadgets Galore

Play your cards right in this poker edition of Attack This, with products like the waterproof Drinxx Cards, custom chips, card player tools, and the Pododds app for your iphone. For more from Attack This, go here: g4tv.com, on this site you can find another cool Poker Gadgets Galore released this year.

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RIM CEO claims we are staring ‘down the barrel of a capacity crunch,’ should all get BlackBerrys to prevent it

Capacity crunch, isn’t that a breakfast cereal? RIM’s Mike Lazaridis seems to have been a real grouch at MWC this week as apparently he hasn’t stopped talking about the doom and gloom awaiting mobile carriers over the next few years. Focusing on the bandwidth-hungry North American market, Lazaridis has criticized the apparently irresponsible network saturation growth, which he sees as being primarily driven by app-centric operating systems. If you’re wondering who he could possibly be referring to, let Mike clarify it — according to him, you could carry five BlackBerry devices for each iPhone on a network. As evidence of his firm’s focus on efficiency, he points us to that freshly demoed WebKit browser, which he claims uses a third of the bandwidth required by the competition from Apple and Google. If only he wasn’t implying that owning a BlackBerry would save the internet, Mike’s sales pitch would be rather compelling — those are mighty impressive numbers he is citing.

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Find the best alcohol accessories for your beer gut, like soap made out of beer, a high-tech bottle opener, a beer robot and a game of Battleshots. For more from Attack This, go here: g4tv.com

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Gobandit GPS HD action camcorder captures your exploits, top speed (video)

Regardless of how sharp the footage captured from your most recent extreme endeavor looks, chances are it won’t seem as fast as it felt at the time. Soon, though, you’ll have some hard proof to back up your tall tales with the waterproof gobandit GPS HD. It has an integrated GPS module that logs your position as you film with it, enabling you to view your course on a map and, most interestingly, apply some overlays to the resulting footage, showing your current speed, top speed, and altitude. Video is captured at a maximum of 720p30, though 5 megapixel stills can be grabbed automatically at two or five second intervals. 2GB of memory is built into the cam, but SDHC support means up to 32GB of footage from the side of your lid. Thrill-seekers can get their pre-order on now ahead of an April release, but with an MSRP of £299.99 ($470) we’ll probably stick with our GoPros, our ContourHDs, and our wild claims about triple-digit speeds. Extreme teaser video after the break.

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