13″ Macbook Pro Available in the Philippines

The last Apple WWDC definitely lacked the wow factor, but at least the company’s finally made a portable Macbook Pro available! With a 13″ display, the smallest Macbook Pro is definitely more portable than its 15″ and 17″ counterparts. The smaller size comes at a cost of performance though, and it’s clear that Apple simply slapped [...] More »

• Mon Jun 15 2009
• 7 Opinions

Ryan Soriano Does Not Return Stolen Macbook Pro, Betrays Trust

A couple of weeks ago, Marc Macalua saw someone selling his stolen Macbook Pro on PhilMUG and various for-sale sites. After pointing this out to the poster, user djwoblely, who was identified as Ryan Soriano, a meeting to retrieve the laptop was arranged. Unfortunately, Mr. Soriano was a no-show for the March 24 meeting. More »

• Fri Apr 3 2009
• 4 Opinions

Dear For-Sale Sites, Please Require Serial Numbers

Wouldn’t it be harder to thieves to fence stuff online if all reputable for-sale sites required sellers to post the serial numbers of their wares? It’s been a pretty hectic week for Technograph, involving a couple of stolen Macbook Pros. The unibody was recently stolen, while its 2007 counterpart was found. More »

• Wed Mar 18 2009
• 2 Opinions

Stolen Macbook Pro Being Sold on PhilMUG!

Unfortunately, this isn’t the stolen Macbook Pro of Marco Palinar. To make a long story short: Marc Macalua’s Macbook Pro was stolen last year. Mr. Macalua posted an announcement on local Mac user group PhilMUG, telling people to look out for the serial number of his stolen laptop. Forward a few months later, and Marc encounters [...] More »

• Tue Mar 17 2009
• 1 Opinion

Stolen Macbook Pro User Shows How to Avoid Laptop Theft

We can learn from Marco’s story of the stolen Macbook Pro. Here’s what I’ve learned so far: Don’t place your laptop [...] More »

Watch Out for Marco’s Stolen Macbook Pro!

Reader Marco shared the very painful story of his stolen Macbook Pro: My friend had his car broken into by thieves last night. He was parked in the parking lot beside Podium in Ortigas. We placed our things inside the trunk. When we came back a few hours later everything was gone which included his Macbook Air [...] More »

• Mon Mar 16 2009
• 6 Opinions

DB Gadgets Has Old Macs for Sale

With newer MacBook models out, DBGadgets hopes to find customers who want a Mac but are willing to buy the older goods. the table here list the prices as shown on this page (take note, these are mostly older models): Product Price iMac Core Duo 20″ | 2.4GHz | 250GB | Silver P63,000 20″ | 2.66GHz | 320GB | Silver P78,000 24″ | [...] More »

• Thu Feb 19 2009
• Respond

Brand-New MacBook Pro Going for P100,000

Got this tip via Plurk: a brand new sealed Macbook Pro 2.4Ghz / 2GB / 250GB for sale at P100k. Anybody? Well [...] More »