At least two generations of MacBook Pros have come to market with faulty nVidia chips that caused many to suffer a premature death. Further, the Mac maker and to a lesser extent chip giant have backstopped these losses with extended warranties, repairs and replacements. Why would anyone think these two are anything but the bestest of buds?

Apple and Nvidia may be parting ways soon over production quality problems with Nvidia chipsets across much of the Apple line, and it turns out that Apple may not be alone in jumping ship.

Apple’s recent product line and price adjustments, as well as an encore performance of last year’s aggressive “Buy a Mac for College, Get a Free iPod touch” back-to-school promotion, are said to be driving a sustained return to positive unit volume growth.

Here’s a state that gets recession economics — train and innovative, and you’ll be ready for anything when the light at the end of the tunnel finally appears. Moreover, this is going to be a boon for third-party suppliers of all things Mac as the state gears up to put the portables into student and teacher hands come fall.

I’ve always admired the guy, but this series of quips and quotes have only deepened my appreciation for his art. Also, chalk up another cultural milestone for Twitter as the design guru’s comments were broadcast live.

How cool is the Mac? Only as cool as the people using it. Or, alternately, as cool as the stuff people are inspired by Apple’s stylishly fast computers to create.

Through the little used channel of the Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division, Dell has  gotten Apple to amend its “green notebooks” claim, but not by much.

Whether you’re a customer or business partner, it’s never easy knowing what Apple will do next. Sometimes that’s a good thing; sometimes not so much.

The system requirements are fairly steep to support H.264 hardware acceleration or play in Apple’s OpenCL sandbox. As you might expect, the great majority of Mac users won’t be able to take advantage of either of these breakthrough technologies.

Watch Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, unveil the new iPhone 3G S, the new MacBook Pro family, and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. See the video-on-demand event right here, exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4 and, now, Apple’s posted the downloadable podcast, as well.