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For those that have already bought their MacBook and have placed it into action you might be interested to know that the MacBook’s Hard Drive and RAM sticks, nicely fit underneath the battery of the MacBook. Well that’s what AppleInsider say. You can remove the battery and the protective shield, and ta-da. You’ll find the [...]

After some serious rumour going around that Apple will anounce the MacBook on Tuesday of last week, some people were pretty annoyed that they haven’t yet released it. But now they finally have! You can see I’m pretty excited about it, and one of the main reasons is because it is available in black (and [...]

So more speculation has arisen after it became clear that the ‘cheaper’ PS3 (the $499 one) will not have WiFi, a card reader or HDMI. This time Games Radar say that the $499 PS3 will not have wireless controllers, and instead ship with boring de facto standard controller, much like the core 360 system. They [...]

Engadget got busy with their hands and tested out the Wii controller quite extensively. They explained that the controller was light, yet very ergonomic and felt comfortable to hold and play with. The controller allows a lot of leverage for the trigger button, and the ‘a’ and ‘b’ buttons, so that it was easy to [...]

Lots of people have been wondering if there will be a ’shell’ for the Wii remote so that you can use it as a gun, like in arcade games or controllers for PS2s and Xboxs. At the Nintendo booth, at E3, there is a prototype for a Zapper gun (it is actually labelled as Zapper) [...]

512 megabytes of internal flash memory
Two USB 2.0 ports and built-in Wi-Fi capability
SD memory card bay to expand the internal flash memory
“Sleepless” WiiConnect24 mode (always-on connection for downloading content etc.)
PowerPC CPU (code-named “Broadway”) jointly developed with and manufactured by IBM
Graphics Processing Unit: Being developed with ATI (not final we guess)
Four ports for classic Nintendo GameCube [...]

The remote control image that was shown off by Nintendo a while ago has now changed a bit. A few things have been modifed, like the addition of the Wii logo on the remote. Gamespot got their hands on the remote and said “During our play session Nintendo reps noted that the controller we were [...]

During Microsoft’s E3 press event, they showed off the Xbox Live Camera (called the Vision Camera), the Racing Wheel and the wireless headset. Engadget checked them out and took lots of photos, however they couldn’t get their hands on them because of the obvious sign “Do Not Touch’. But did that stop them, no! They [...]

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This image has been found on Nintendo’s website (link).
Our sources have confirmed to us that this is definitely real, however several questions still remain - why is there a cable, and does the remote simply click onto the bottom of the unit? Or is it now a stand alone unit?
This is certainly very interesting, and [...]