Programmers are finding themselves increasingly drawn to the Mac as a development platform, in large part due to Apple’s decision to move to Intel chips and to embrace virtualization of other OSes, which has turned Mac OS X into a flexible tool for development, InfoWorld reports. The explosion of interest in smartphone development is helping [...]
Plastic used to be the sexy material of the future. Now, it’s the cheap, ugly material of the past.
Just look at the effort Apple Inc. put into getting rid of plastic when designing its new $1,300 MacBook laptops, which went on sale last week. Apple now is machining the upper part of the chassis from [...]
15 Oct
Posted by Geoff as Apple, Apple Macintosh, Mac, Mac OSX, Mac OSX Leopard, MacBook, Macintosh
Steve Jobs just got through yesterday announcing new MacBook lines in Cupertino. The MacBook, the Pro, and the Air all got revved. The old line of plastic-body MacBooks drops in price by $100, to $999. The new MacBooks have a metal body and multi-touch trackpad, just like the new Pros. The Pro features two NVidia [...]
02 Oct
Posted by Geoff as Apple, Apple Macintosh, Mac, Mac OSX, MacBook, Macintosh
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Apple Inc.’s Mac OS X market share has passed the 8% mark for the first time, a research company reported today.
In September, Apple’s operating system ran on 8.2% of the computers that accessed the 40,000 sites monitored by Net Applications for clients, the company’s data showed. The Mac’s share of the operating [...]
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A mid-October MacBook launch misses the back-to-school rush, but has Apple in the right place for the holidays.
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With new iPods out of the way, the next priority for Apple is the Mac.
John Gruber at Daring Fireball is reporting that Apple will roll out new MacBooks on October 14, which fits the [...]
29 Aug
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No matter how the numbers are sliced and diced, Apple’s Mac sales are exploding, mostly in the above $1,000 price range, of course. Joe Wilcox in AppleWatch:
Apple’s retail market share is 14 percent, and two-thirds for PCs costing $1,000 or more. Should I repeat those numbers? The share data is for first-quarter [...]
25 Aug
Posted by Geoff as Apple, Apple Macintosh, Mac OSX, MacBook, Macintosh, Windows Vista
Well, I detoured away from Apple for a few months when financial circumstances necessitated going to a less expensive computer. Now, I am back to the Mac. I really think Windows Vista is getting a little bit of a bad rap these days. When introduced, there were simply too many problems. Peripherals often wouldn’t work [...]
21 Aug
Posted by Geoff as Apple, Apple Macintosh, Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft
Apple Inc. keeps pummeling Microsoft Corp. in its ads, and yadda yadda yadda, the world’s largest software maker plans to hire comedian Jerry Seinfeld for its new marketing campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported today.Continually painted by Apple and other rivals as uncool and unsafe, Microsoft plans to spend $300 million on a new series [...]
18 Dec
Posted by Geoff as Apple, Apple Macintosh, Mac, Mac OSX, Mac OSX Leopard, Macintosh, iMac
Forget Windows and especially forget Vista and all of its problems. Apple keeps getting better and better with its Macintosh computer line-up. Actually a pioneer in the computer industry, Mac computers are fluid, intuitive, secure and actually enjoyable to use. You spend less time worrying about configuration and security issues, and more time enjoying your [...]