The thinnest and lightest desktop replacement yet combines great graphics performance with a stunning display and very long battery life.

Although the MacBook and MacBook Pro line was initially relaunched last fall with the 17-inch version intact, it was recently revamped to sport the same sleek, unibody construction as its 13- and 15-inch siblings. Although it shares their design and the 15-inch Pro’s switchable graphics, it’s different in two key ways: its nonremovable battery promises up to 8 hours on a charge, and its display has a 60 percent increase in the 15-inch Pro’s color gamut. (more…)

Google is coming a bit closer to releasing a working version of its Chrome browser for Mac.

Programmers for the company had been building an engine that could render Web pages, but it only ran within a simple framework called the test shell. Now they’ve begun hooking up the renderer to a full-fledged browser, which among other things can handle multiple tasks at the same time. (more…)