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Updated Apple patents documenting how the company envisages larger-scale multitouch displays reacting to all fingers of both of a user’s hands have added further fuel to the suspicion that a MacBook Tablet is in development. The patent, 52 pages in length, suggests a full-touchscreen Mac Tablet with window-based GUI as in OS X; controls would adapt [...]
Cases purported to be for the rumored fourth-generation iPod nano and second-generation iPod touch have appeared on Alibaba (here, here and here). Made from silicon, and seemingly tallying with the leaked image we’ve seen recently, the design for the nano suggests Apple would be going back to its earlier, long & thin form-factor.
If you’ve ever tried to play video games with your iPhone chances are you’ve run into a little trouble. The iPhone surface is great for making phone calls and surfing the web, but for many video games you really need buttons and a game pad to really get into them.
An awful lot of people are getting frantically excited about a supposed leaked advert showing the upcoming MacBook Pro refresh. You can understand the excitement: a casing similar to that of the MacBook Air, and less than one inch thick. Weight down to 5.1lbs. WiFi getting a boost to 802.11n. Unfortunately, the ad isn’t real [...]
Apple has been accused of attempting to cover up a persistent hardware problem with its PowerBook G4 notebooks, in which screen quality degrades. The problem, known as the “Vertical Lines” display defect, apparently stems from a manufacturing and/or design defect, whereby a cable grip is causing the display cable to fray. However Apple is reportedly [...]
Intel have been holding their annual Developers’ Forum in San Francisco this week, and quite a few prototypes and commercial products have come out to play. Of the former, most exciting seems to be the UrbanMax Tablet PC concept; of the latter, Viliv’s S5 MID and S7 UMPC both promise to crank the netbook market [...]
The rumor mill is churning once again and it looks like we might be seeing some new iPods hitting the market shortly. In fact, just a few short weeks may be all we’ll have to wait.
Fresh rumors abound of imminent iPod updates, with suggestions that Apple are looking to retire or refresh much of their current PMP range. AppleInsider has heard from Target employees that the product status for all current iPod models has changed from “active” to “discontinued” on their stock management system; meanwhile, UK retailer Argos is apparently [...]
If you have a MacBook or MacBook Pro, you probably are familiar with the MagSafe power adapters. They’re great because if you trip on the cord, you won’t ruin it. It’ll just pop right off of the laptop without breaking anything. However, the power adapters are known to have a flaw: they tend to fray.
Apple have issued a second apologetic extension to its MobileMe subscribers, who have faced ongoing issues with the wireless syncronization service. In addition to the original 30-day free extension, any users whose account was active as of August 19, 2008 at 0:00 Pacific Daylight Time will now receive a further 60-day subscription.
“The transition from .Mac [...]
