In October, Steve Jobs told Greenpeace that Apple was on track to stop using all PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants in their new products. Macworld came around with the new Macbook Pro, complete with the same toxins as usual. And Greenpeace is pissed.

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LG today made its 2009 HDTV range known and is centering its advances both on sheer image quality and on turning its TVs into full-fledged media hubs. The 55LHX is LG’s thinnest TV ever and uses a combination of a breakout box and LED backlighting to reduce the set to just one inch thick. The illumination on the set is also advanced even compared to other LED-lit sets and produces a 2,000,000:1 …

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Why does Apple always do this? They release a cool new gadget, but wait there’s a catch! Want to replace the battery? Too bad because it’s non-removable so send it back to us so we can charge you to replace it! Just like the iPhone 3G the new 17” Apple MacBook Pro has a non-removable battery.

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Roughly 77 percent of American Mac users are running some form of Office for Mac on their computers, Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit claims. The proportion is thought to be unusually high, particularly in light of Apple’s first-party iWork suite, which offers functionality similar to Office and has been available for several years. Microsoft admits, though, that there is little to compare the 77 p…

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NewerTech has announced two new products at Macworld Expo: Voyager Q Hard Drive Docking Base and NuCube (booth S-2322). Voyager Q is a docking platform for any standard 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA I/II hard drive (up to 2TB capacity) that includes four interfaces for users to choose from: FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA. The NuCube features a thick 3/8-inch clear acrylic case for the …

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