Refreshed after dedicate a calendar month to aesculapian subject , I return to both full wellness and the Macworld Podcast . During my enforced absence seizure , Apple has been busybodied ( too busy , it appears , to get at with a get well card ) . Doing what ? Oh , nothing much . Just issuing a more robust MacBook Pro ( staring with a whizzy new mainframe , pump up L2 memory cache , in high spirits RAM and severe private road capacities , and the return of the FireWire 800 porthole on the 15 - inch poser ) . Oh , and pulling together a microcode update to help oneself end the unwitting shutdown issues experienced by some MacBook owners . And then there ’s theiPod shuffle Reset Utility , a peter that , unlike the sure-enough iPod Software Updater or the restore feature built into iTunes 7 , can really revive a first - generation iPod shuffle that ’s , quite literally , on the winking .
News apart , we also sour our attention to the Caribbean to catch up with the doings aboard theMS Veendam , Holland - America ’s luxury sea liner that houses MacMania V — the Mac - centrical learning / playing / eat high - sea adventure . In increase to such Mac notable as Andy Ihnatko , Apple ’s Sal Saghoian and Janet Hill , Leo Laporte , Ted Landau , Derrick Story , and Ben Long , Macworld ’s own Dan Frakes and Rob Griffiths have taken to the sea blue to choke along their wisdom to a group of now - pampered Mac partisan . Dan and Rob severalise us how they spend their costless prison term as well as chat with a rider who — some might propose — spends an insalubrious amount of time scouring eBay for old Macs .
And finally , I enquire you , devout attender , to offer up any audio question you care to have answered on the melodic phrase . Drop your MP3- or AAC - formatted questions to my attending atmac911@macworld.com .
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Both Dan and Rob are filing regular reports from aboard theVeendamin the MacMania Weblog . If you ’d like to fall in in on their playfulness , you should also check out theGeek sail Web sitefor information on thenext scheduled MacMania event .
Regarding the updated MacBook Pros , Jonathan Seff exalt Apple for increasing the amount of install memory on the laptops , while Philip Michaels ruminate on how the new MacBook Pros might perform using the iMac ’s addition of a Core 2 Duo central processing unit as his pathfinder . speak of bench mark , those should be live at Macworld.com later this calendar week .
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