The "shorter" 7-hour battery life on the new 2011 MacBook Pro's is actually longer

When Apple launched their MacBook Air's last year, they implemented a new system for measuring battery life. My experience with the 7-hour battery of the 13-inch MacBook Air, is that it does last almost 7 hours in real world use. With other manufactures, you generally get 66%-75% of the published battery in real world use.

The new 2011 MacBook Pro's list a 7-hour battery life as compared to the previous models 10-hour. But the new models apparently have more endurance. LaptopMag just reviewed the 13-inch MacBook Pro and wrote: 

Last year when our 13-inch MacBook Pro achieved a very long 7:48 of runtime we were very pleased. Understandably, we were extremely happy when this new MacBook Pro 13-inch persevered for a marathon-like 8:33 on our LAPTOP Battery Test (Web surfing via Wi-Fi). 

You can read the rest of the review here.

New backdoor Trojan targets Mac OSX users

Sophos one of the worlds leading developers and sellers of security software reports that there is a new backdoor Trojan in town and it targets users of Mac OSX. SophosLabs analyzed the sample we received and determined that it is a variant of a well-known Remote Access Trojan (RAT) for Windows known as darkComet. You can read more details about this new Mac OSX trojan here. 

While most Mac users do not use anti-virus software, it might be time to change that habit. Sohpos offers a free anti-virus solution for Mac users. You can read about, and download Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition here.