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ACER Aspire S3 Ultrabook Hands-on [Video]

Chris Burns, Sep 2nd 2011 Discuss [5]

This week at IFA 2011 we’ve gotten a hands-on look at Acer’s newly announced Ultrabook, the Acer Aspire S3, an ultra portable thin and light super powerful laptop for the next generation of demanding consumers across the world. This device has a 13.3-inch LED display at 1366 x 768 pixels resolution, is a mere 0.51-inches thick, and features the latest second generation of Intel Core i3/i5/i7 processors at up to 1.7GHz, this with a choice of 240 GB SSD or 320/500 GB HDD with embedded SSD means you’ve got one powerful bit of computing on your hands. Walk with us through this brand new device and see if it’s going to replace your current fat-by-comparison laptop come the end of this year.

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Apple Chief Designer Jonathan Ive Exhibit now in German Art Museum

Chris Burns, Aug 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

All the way over in Hamburg, Germany, there's a design exhibit being shown in their Museum of Arts and Crafts called "Stylectrical: On Electro-Design That Makes History" featuring 300 exhibits, over half of which are Apple products. Long time employee Jonathan Ive, currently Apple's Chief Designer, is the most prominently featured designer in this collection, right alongside former Braun designer lead Dieter Rams, an influence of design theories of both Ive and Steve Jobs. This Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe exhibit will examine "the complex development processes of industrial electrical design in a cultural studies context", and isn't the first time Apple products have been featured in a museum, though it is the first time that all of the projects worked on and/or supervised by Ive have been showcased under one roof. Read The Full Story

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Apple is Safe with Tim Cook

Chris Burns, Aug 24th 2011 Discuss [9]

Wednesday afternoon Apple’s long-time CEO and founder Steve Jobs sent a letter out to the company’s Board of Directors and the greater Apple Community announcing his resignation as CEO of Apple. His letter requests and the board has agreed that now former Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook would become the new Apple CEO while Jobs himself would become Chairman of the Board, director, and, as he put it, “Apple employee.” As we find confidence in the fact that Jobs will continue to be a large member of the Apple family, we of course look to Tim Cook to fill the role that Jobs has defined for several decades. Is Tim Cook up to the task?

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Apple Possibly Planning All New Mac Product

Chris Burns, Aug 22nd 2011 Discuss [4]

Straight from the horses mouth - the one that lives in Japan and isn't exactly officially connected with Apple in any way, thusly a whole different breed, as it were, comes word that Apple will be releasing a Mac that's “absolutely different from current products." The source for this information is a group that also successfully predicted the March release of the iPad 2. What we're expecting is that IF a whole new product is released, it could be a touch-central desktop computer to make use of the newest Mac OS Lion's ability to push and pull in all directions for gesture-based action all day long. Read The Full Story

Evernote buys Mac drawing app Skitch, makes it free

Rue Liu, Aug 18th 2011 Discuss [2]

Popular cloud-based note-taking service Evernote announced today that it has acquired Skitch, a photo annotation, editing, and sharing app. Skitch has so far been limited to the Mac platform, but with the acquisition, Evernote intends on expanding the app to all platforms, including iOS, Windows, and Android as well as integrating the app into its own note-taking platform. Read The Full Story

Kanex unveils C247DL Dual-link DVI to Apple Mini DisplayPort adapter

Shane McGlaun, Aug 17th 2011 Discuss [1]

Kanex has unveiled a new converter that will help the Mac users out there connect an existing Mac computer to the new and cool Apple LED Cinema display that only has a Mini DisplayPort. The adapter converts the video signal from DVI to the Apple display and supports resolution up to 2560 x 1600 meaning it supports 27-inch and 30-inch screens. Read The Full Story

Mac sales soar on Asia appeal: June up 67% in China

Chris Davies, Aug 17th 2011 Discuss [2]

Strong demand for Mac computers in China has seen Apple's sales growth soar in Asia, it's reported, with Mac shipments growing at over 67-percent in June, far outpacing their PC counterparts. In a new investor note, Needham analyst Charlie Wolf, quoted by AllThingsD, claims that the incredible uptick in Chinese sales "represents a perfect storm between an iconic brand and a rapidly growing middle class that’s more brand conscious than consumers in virtually every other region of the globe." Read The Full Story

Apple’s Spaceship Campus Is Larger Than The U.S. Pentagon

Rue Liu, Aug 16th 2011 Discuss [24]

Apple's massive "spaceship" campus will have a footprint that's larger than the U.S. Pentagon and a diameter wider than the New York City Empire State Building laid on its side. The Mac Observer took the recently released floor plans and overlaid them with various monumental objects to reveal just how massive this 2.8-million square-foot circular office building will be. Read The Full Story

Apple Releases Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 Update

Rue Liu, Aug 16th 2011 Discuss [5]

Apple has just released a Mac OS X Lion update to version 10.7.1. This is the platform's first public update since its launch last month and fixes various bugs for improved stability and compatibility. It is recommended for all Lion users to upgrade and there are also versions of the update specific for the MacBook Air and the Mac Mini 2011. Read The Full Story

Apple Spaceship Campus Renderings and Floor Plans Revealed

Chris Burns, Aug 13th 2011 Discuss [8]

This past June we caught a glimpse of what Steve Jobs and the Apple crew had planned for the City of Cupertino, that being a gigantic "spaceship" campus in the shape of a ring, one so magnificent it would make ancient Rome cry little column-shaped tears. What we've got now is extended details including floor plans and renderings. Look at this fantastic vision in architecture and imagine for yourself the secrets and future presentations on iPads it may hold. Would you be happy working in such a facility? Read The Full Story

Counter Strike Expansion “Global Offensive” Launching inside 2012

Chris Burns, Aug 12th 2011 Discuss [16]

One of the most popular 3rd party modifications of a game in history, Counter-Strike has now been a legitimate stand-alone game series now for almost 10 years. What began as first-person shooter PC game Half-Life was transformed in 1999 to a game of terrorists and counter-terrorists, one side's objective to set and protect a bomb, the other's side to disarm the bomb. This game is set to have a new sequel in 2012 in the form of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, aka CS-GO. Read The Full Story

Apple Store Hits Alaska, Several More Retail Locations To Open This Saturday

Rue Liu, Aug 9th 2011 Discuss [1]

The folks up in Alaska are about to get their very first Apple Store this Saturday, when several new Apple retail locations will open their doors worldwide. These new stores include locations in the US, Canada, Australia, and Italy. It's been reported that the company intends to expand its total retail count to over 360 stores by September. Read The Full Story