In Marlton, New Jersey thieves broke the store front window of an Apple store, then proceeded to steel 23 Macbook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPod Touches, all in 31 seconds.

The thieves fooled a security guard into thinking they had a gun in the security surveillance video obtained by WPVI-TV.

The loss was nearly $100,000 worth of merchandise that was on display. At the moment police have no idea who the thieves are because they all kept their faces covered.

This takes smash-and-grab to a whole new level.

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Apple has leaked a concept art picture of a MacBook laptop they call a TriBook, because it has three LCD screens. There is also a trackpad, or touchpad, that spans the length of the TriBook, which is a bad idea because you might want to use the keyboard and rest your hands on the touchpad. So far this is only a concept, which needs work.

Apple has launched a new campaign, self-proclaiming themselves as producers of the greenest notebooks ever. The ad is mainly about their new unibody aluminum construction and glass displays that were one of the highlights at the most recent Macworld event.

Among other changes from standard notebooks, the new Macbooks have eliminated the use of toxins such as mercury that are found in other notebooks computers.

Apple also brags about the energy efficiency of their notebooks, claiming that they run on 25% power of a single lightbulb now that the LCDs are backlit by the use of LEDs.

Steve Jobs promised to eliminate all toxic materials from Apple hardware by the end of 2008.

According to various sources, running your MacBook or MacBookPro without its battery will cause a noticeable performance decrease. Those of you who adopt this practice in order to squeeze out an extra month or two of battery life will find your Apple laptops run 40 or even 50 percent less efficiently.

This is apparently by design: The company made it so processor speed is lowered when the unit detects that its relying solely on A/C to power itself. It begins to demand less power than usual in order to avoid unpleasant shutdowns. The end result is your programs will start running slowly.

Faulty line of reasoning or not, best keep that battery resting snugly where it belongs. If you think this has been happening to you, click here to run Cinebench to benchmark your Apple system.

A Macforums member bought an "as-is" Macbook Air from Ebay and the unit ended up being an early Air prototype. The computer bears a mark indicating it was built in May 2007, six months before the line was introduced.

There are a few changes from the final design: The microphone positioning is a bit off, the keyboard has no lighting, and it runs an interim build of OS X 10.5. The bottom, as shown in the photo above, is black-colored aluminum. Apple has offered no word as to how the prototype unit escaped their clutches.