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Latest News

  • Apple iPhone bolster results ahead of tablet launch

    One bright spot was the growth in iPod Touch sales, which increased 55 percent worldwide year over year.Apple recorded growth in desktop and laptop shipments during the quarter, helped by recent iMac and Macbook product launches.
  • Apple updates AirPort and MacBook Pro firmware

    It remedies a few problems, including one where some users who have upgraded from Mac OS X Leopard occasionally can't turn AirPort on or off, intermittent network connection drops when using Wake on Demand, and the inability to create a…
  • Mac clone maker promised investors huge sales

    The OpenBook's price was set at $699, $300 below the price of Apple's lowest-cost notebook at the time, the MacBook.Although Psystar's CEO, Rudy Pedraza, told reporters in August 2008 that his company was working on a notebook, one never appeared.
  • Apple Tablet to cost £400 says analyst

    An analyst is predicting that the Apple tablet will retail for between $500 and $700 (£300-£425) rather than the $2,000 (£1,213) suggested by Technology Business Research analyst Ezra Gottheil.Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster does not buy the…
  • Apple Snow Leopard update breaks Hackintosh netbooks

    Users may have issues and start complaining about the Mac OS X operating system when the problem is really the fault of the untested hardware.Does Microsoft care if you want to run Windows 7 on your Macbook?
  • Apple Mini DisplayPort monitor standard adopted by VESA

    Like a zombie outbreak, the connector then mercilessly spread from the laptops to the rest of the Mac family.On Tuesday, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), keeper of the DisplayPort standard, announced that Apple's Mini…

Latest Features

  • Macs vs. PCs: Which is cheaper to run?

    The equivalent Dell is $889.In a head-to-head cost comparison, Lennox pitted an Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch against a Dell Precision Laptop M4400, similarly configured. The final analysis: the MacBook costs $1,899 with a delivery in one to three…
  • 2010 may be the year of the Apple Mac

    Other features, such as auto-detection of nearby networked printers, help make it easier for IT to allow Macs in to the enterprise without having to devote significant resources to support them.At the same time, Apple's sleek and solid MacBook Pro…
  • Apple Tablet event: Live countdown

    There's a home button, an aluminium bezel like a MacBook, a glass screen. The iPad syncs with iTunes on your Mac/PC just like the iPhone or iPod touch. It even includes an iPad simulator so you can run your iPad apps right on your Mac as you…
  • Apple tablet: what about the text?

    My MacBook keyboard beats it for text entry, er, hands down for reasons as simple as the ability to type with ten fingers instead of two.Furthermore, there's the question of how one would use an iPhone-style thumb keyboard on a device with a…
  • Top 10 most ridiculous tech stories of 2009

    Other photoshop mistakes include the white MacBook in front of the edited person with the Apple logo brushed out, and the fact that the woman's LCD display isn't actually plugged in to anything.4. Apple won't fix your MacsApple has refused to…
  • Smartbook: the ultimate evolution of the netbook?

    Apple solved this problem nicely by building dual graphics processors into select MacBook Pro notebooks: a reasonably fast processor for utilitarian tasks, and a 2.5X processor for turbocharged performance.
 

How-Tos

  • How to get an Apple iPad for work

    In some cases, the presentation could even be created on the iPad.At half the weight of a MacBook Air and smaller in height and width, the iPad's a great fit for users who travel a lot, and mostly need e-mail and iWork on the road.
  • How to run Windows 7 on Mac OS X

    Windows 7 is my primary desktop but lately the amount of iPhone work I've been doing has prompted me to swap hardware so I could have my Mac Xcode development environment with me when I'm mobile.Thus, came the need to figure out: 1) what would…
  • Mac OSX Snow Leopard Upgrade: The Facts

    MacBook Air owners can use a DVD drive in another computer, provided they turn on CD/DVD sharing. In building Snow Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X (version 10.6), Apple focused more on under-the-hood improvements to boost speed and…

Reviews

  • Parallels Desktop for Mac 5.0

    Hardware was an Apple MacBook Pro 2.4GHz (Early 2008), with 4GB physical RAM, and nVidia 8600M graphics and 256MB video RAM.In the case of VMware Fusion, we had seen a small but measurable increase in speed when moving from v2 to v3 - from 71 to…
  • Mac OS X 10.6 Server review

    In my tests on a fast network, from start to finish with a MacBook Pro, I was able to consistently sync 4GB to 5GB of data in about 5 minutes or so, as compared to two to three times that with Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.5 Server.iCal Server and…
  • BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac software review

    But therein lies one of the biggest problems I have with the new BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac: media sync troubles.Media Sync tribulationsI was able to sync small amount of media from my iTunes library between my BlackBerry Bold and MacBook
  • Snow Leopard: The in-depth review

    As a full-time MacBook user, I'm endlessly putting my Mac to sleep and waking it back up. QuickTime X failed completely when I tried to capture my MacBook Air screen, despite the fact that I've successfully captured video on this same system using…
  • Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) review

    Apple's revised unibody MacBook Pro 15in (Mid 2009) is also the fastest we've ever tested. Apple's revised unibody MacBook Pro 15in (Mid 2009) is also the fastest we've ever tested.For this mid-2009 update of its laptop range, Apple has kept the…
  • Apple MacBook Pro 13in (Mid-2009) review

    After using Mac OS X's Disk Utility to format and create a GUID partition on a 8GB card, we installed Leopard on the card and were able to use it as a startup disk.Two modelsThe new 13in MacBook Pros is available in two standard configurations.
 
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