Many MacBook owners frequently connect their laptop to an external mouse or wireless trackpad. You can prevent accidental cursor input while in this configuration by disabling the MacBook’s built-in trackpad while your external mouse or trackpad is connected. Here’s how to do it.
A few years ago, we looked at how to create and benchmark a RAM Disk on your Mac. But hardware has advanced quite a bit since then, and so we wanted to see how Apple’s latest Macs — the 2013 Mac Pro and 2014 MacBook Pro — performed when configured with a RAM Disk. Read on to find out how we got our Mac to transfer data at 5.8 gigabytes per second.
With Thursday’s unveiling of the new 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K Display, Apple now offers “Retina” quality displays in all product categories: phone, tablet, laptop, and desktop. While the benefit of a Retina display varies greatly depending on the overall size of the panel and distance from the average user’s eyes during use, we were curious about how the new Retina iMac’s display compared to other Retina displays in terms of pixel density.
Apple had a ton of announcements today, including iPads, MacBooks, desktops, operating systems, and software. Get the full rundown of the key information.
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Samsung announced Monday that it plans to unveil a prototype 13.3-inch notebook display with a resolution of 3,200-by–1,800 pixels. If mass produced, the display would give the Korean company’s clients, including its own computer division, significantly higher resolution than currently available on Apple’s Retina MacBook Pros or Google’s Chromebook Pixel. The current consumer notebook display density champion is the aforementioned Chromebook Pixel, which launched in February with a 2,560-by–1,700 resolution on a 12.85-inch display for a total of about 239…
When Apple introduced the MacBook Pro with Retina Display last year, the company unveiled MagSafe 2, a thinner and longer connector for Apple’s innovative magnetic power cord. The company said that the reduced height of the new MacBook design simply didn’t allow enough space for the standard MagSafe connector that powered the MacBook lines since 2006. Users were happy to have a thinner Mac, but frustrated by the fact that their existing power cords, and the power cord that comes…