Here’s a quick and easy way to add extra ports on your MacBook Air: InfiniWing’s LandingZone is a simple strip that adds power, monitor, Ethernet and four USB ports to Apple’s ultraslim. But the genius is in the design: the accessory features two “clamps” on each side that locks both the 11- or 13-inch Macbook Air into place with a push of the lever, while the dock itself keeps the Mac’s rear-end raised for more effective cooling.
Now, we have no idea why anyone would drop a perfectly working laptop off a 20-foot balcony (or drop a bowling ball on an iPad), but if you ever wanted to see a really convincing product demo, then you’re going to want to see this. G-Form just put out a YouTube demo video that pimps out their Exreme Sleeve for laptops. The victim: A 13-inch MacBook Pro. The crime: they dropped the running laptop from a 20-foot balcony. Did it survive? Of course. Or else, it would have made for a really crappy demo video. But will it blend? We’re pretty sure it will, but just for the hell of it, we’d love to watch that, because a tech demo deathmatch sounds like fun. G-Form’s demo video and press release after the break.
Fact number one: the audio quality on built-in laptop speakers usually suck. Fact number two: despite being called “laptops,” you usually can’t keep a laptop on your lap for more than a few minutes because of the heat being spewed out from the underside. Solution? There are actually a lot of laptop platforms and cooling pads you can get to get around these issues, but Logitech’s first Speaker Lapdesk N700 was apparently successful enough that they thought to put out another one—this time for smaller notebooks and netbooks—called the N550.
Apple finishes off its update day with a couple of new accessories: the 27-inch LED Cinema Display and a new input peripheral called the Magic Trackpad. Despite the mystical name, it’s simply an oversized touchpad that connects via Bluetooth. It acts and feels the same as a MacBook’s pad, but it’s 80% larger, giving your Mac desktop multitouch support. As an accessory for a MacBook, well, you get a larger area to do all your swiping with.
Okay, Samsung didn’t really come up with the first 1TB 2.5-inch drive for notebooks (Western Digital first reached 1TB limit with the Scorpio Blue almost exactly a year ago), but the Spinpoint MT2 is Samsung’s first 2.5-inch drive to hit the 1TB limit. Not that it’s information that consumers like you and me would care about, mind you – we don’t really care who came first now, do we? But we do care about which 1TB drive is better.
To that end, Samsung is claiming that the Spinpoint MT2 is 20% faster and uses 4% less power than WD’s Scorpio Blue, although in a non-standard shell (it’s a bit thicker than the usual 2.5-incher) that limits it to certain notebook models and devices with a SATA or SATA II interface.
