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Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview Released

Chris Davies, Feb 24th 2011 Discuss [2]

While the new MacBook Pro line-up delivers the Sandy bridge update consumers have been clamoring for, Apple has something for developers too. The new developer preview of Mac OS X Lion has been released, adding full-screen app support, pinch and double-tap zoom in Safari – some of the multitouch gestures borrowed from OS X – a document saving system called Versions (which automatically saves successive versions of documents as you work on them) and AirDrop, a wireless file transfer system for drag & drop moving of documents between Macs.

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Apple’s New MacBooks: Bigger Trackpads, OS On SSD, Half Pound Lighter

Rue Liu, Feb 21st 2011 Discuss [6]

Apple's new MacBooks are just around the corner--and by that I mean sitting on pallets at your local resellers. Apple has warned resellers not to unpackage the pallets until further notice. So far, exact details on the new MacBooks have remained a mystery. However, BGR has an Apple source that let loose on some interesting features to expect. Read The Full Story

Apple Major Product Launch Possible for Next Week

Chris Burns, Feb 18th 2011 Discuss [2]

It appears that a source "familiar with the matter" has come forth to AppleInsider to spill the dish on some big fat Apple news about what might be a product launch next week. This release might have to do with inventory levels of the MacBook Pro or because Apple fans are ravenous as ever, either way it appears that rumors for two weeks from now are bunk, and next week is the source of heavenly Apple light. This meeting or press conference might well be the place where the next generation of MacBook Pros originate, and that'd be alright with yours truly as this 2007 MacBook is just about to hit the bin. Read The Full Story

MacBook Air Sandy Bridge refresh tipped for June

Chris Davies, Feb 11th 2011 Discuss [4]

Apple is reportedly planning to refresh its MacBook Air ultraportable with Sandy Bridge processors in June, delayed slightly due to the chipset issues Intel has experienced. CNET's sources haven't disclosed which exact processors in Intel's Core 2011 range will used, though the update is expected to follow a MacBook Pro Sandy Bridge refresh in March or April. Read The Full Story

Reviews

MacBook Air 11-inch GelaSkin Review and Hands-On (with Bonus iPod Touch Review!)

Chris Burns, Jan 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

So we were contacted by no less than GelaSkins themselves to see if we’d like to take a look at their brand new MacBook Air protective skins. What did we say? Of COURSE we’d like to take a peek. So they did indeed let us take a peek, and since I just happen to have had a brand new MacBook Air 11″ right here to go with my ancient iPod Touch 2nd gen, I decided to grab a skin for both. For the iPod Touch 2nd gen I decided to go with a massively complex London illustration by my favorite group of pixel illustrators in the world: eboy! Then for the MacBook Air 11-inch, I decided to take the DIY route and have them print my own design.

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Steve Jobs Declared Person of the Year by Financial Times

Evan Selleck, Dec 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

While Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, managed to wrangle in the title from TIME Magazine, the Financial Times has a different outlook on the previous year, and who managed to have the biggest impact. The periodical has announced that they've given the Person of the Year achievement to none other than Steve Jobs. And while there's many factors as to why the Financial Times has decided to go this route, they're putting quite a bit of the achievement on the shoulders of Apple's tablet device, the iPad. Read The Full Story

Apple Plans to Hide the Antenna Behind Their Logo

Evan Selleck, Dec 23rd 2010 Discuss [4]

Apple engineers are always hard at work trying to better their hardware, trying to find every route possible to make it more interesting, usable, and effective. While "Antennagate" may have thrown a wrench in a lot of people's planning and hard work, and caused an antenna-related campaign of which no one had seen before, it also meant that those same engineers were already hard at work on a fix right after the launch of the latest generation iPhone. And, if a recent patent application is any indicator to the fact, they may have found a potential fix for the whole situation: hiding it behind the logo. Read The Full Story

Apple Sandy Bridge testing tips huge CPU/GPU refresh

Chris Davies, Dec 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

Apple's future processor and GPU plans are the subject of numerous leaks today, with sources revealing that the company has been testing Intel Sandy Bridge Core iX chips for several months now, ahead of including them in future MacBook Pro and Mac Pro models, among others. Meanwhile, the company is also tipped to be considering solely using Sandy Bridge integrated graphics in its entry-level notebooks and ultraportables, while higher-end machines would switch from NVIDIA chips to AMD's Radeon range. Read The Full Story

Apple buy Wi-Gear for Bluetooth expertise; apt-X quality audio support as standard?

Chris Davies, Nov 9th 2010 Discuss [3]

It's been a long time since we reviewed Wi-Gear's iMuffs for iPod, but it seems Apple has been paying closer attention to the wireless headphones company. According to 9to5Mac's sources, Apple acquired Wi-Gear two months ago - the company now says it is closed for business - and intends to use its technology and expertise to produce stereo Bluetooth headphones for its iOS and MacBook lines. We've also reason to believe that Apple could introduce apt-X support across those ranges, for higher quality Bluetooth audio. Read The Full Story

Featured

Apple Keeps the Mac Roaring

Ben Bajarin, Oct 20th 2010 Discuss [7]

With all the speculation and chatter about tablets eating into notebooks and desktops – Apple re-emphasized the importance of the Mac in their software and hardware ecosystem. The announcement today focused on software but also highlighted two new MacBook Air models (The smallest notebooks on the market), one starting at $999

Apple’s COO Tim Cook set the tone for the whole morning by stating the Mac business represents 33% of Apple’s revenue ($22 billion dollars). He put that in perspective and revealed that if the Mac business was a standalone company it would be listed #110 on the Fortune 500 list.

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OS X 10.7 Lion Official: Mac Meets the iPad

Evan Selleck, Oct 20th 2010 Discuss [2]

After 7 major releases of Apple’s OS X platform over the last decade, it’s all come to this. Apple has just announced the brand new version of OS X, and it’s called Lion. Just as we had suspected. The new version brings plenty of upgrades to the OS, and there’s even a few surprises in store, just as Apple had suggested on their revenue call earlier in the week.

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Columns

I Don’t Use It, Why Should You?

Philip Berne, Oct 19th 2010 Discuss [6]

I use my DVD drive all the time. Some readers may laugh, but I actually pay for movies and music content. Sometimes, I’ll find a deal on a movie or a CD that is better than what I could find online. I take it home, I rip it to my laptop, and it’s mine, convenient and digital. I used my DVD drive when I installed Windows 7 on my MacBook, and when I had to reinstall iWork, after iMovie started crashing again. In my old Camry, my tape deck stopped working, and that’s my favorite way to connect my iPod to my car stereo. Radio transmitters don’t work reliably in my area, but instead of shelling out a few hundred bucks to buy a proper car stereo for a car that won’t last me through next year, I did what we used to do back in the old days. I burned a CD.