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Apple News

iMac 27″ Displays fixed!

February 26, 2010

Apple announced that the issues that affected some of the new 27″ iMacs are solved by two new firmware updates.
A small number of purchasers of the incredibly popular new iMacs found their displays a bit yellowish, or flickering, and when the new iMacs sold out of some stores and resellers, let to rumors that production [...]

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Will Apple’s interface be 3D any time soon?

December 18, 2009

The US Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application yesterday from Apple that is intriguing, if not definitave. It’s for a high-end 3D interface that provides parallax transforms of objects, applications and games with high detail reflections providing incredible realism, and uses a new wide-angle iSight camera to track users head and changes the [...]

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Apple updates Airport, MacBook, and Superdrive Firmware.

December 9, 2009

Apple has posted a few software and firmware updates, which address issues with airport not able to turn off or on, and drive noise with optical drives. The updates should be available through Software Update, so be sure to check there.
Apple AirPort Client Update 2009-002
This update fixes a problem we reported on a little while [...]

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Mac OS X 10.6.2 released – comments and issues

November 10, 2009

Apple released the Snow Leopard update that is supposed to fix all the problems. I for one haven’t had any problems to speak of, nor have the majority of users, but there have been a few reported that could be serious. Now they’re fixed, one hopes.
Apple’s About the Mac OS X v10.6.2 Update page has [...]

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Apple released OS X 10.6.1 update for Snow Leopard

September 10, 2009

It didn’t take long for this update, fortunately. According to Apple this update fixes the following:

Improves compatibility with some Sierra Wireless 3G modems

Addresses an issue in which some printer compatibility drivers might not appear properly in the Add Printer browser

Addresses an issue that might cause DVD playback to stop unexpectedly

Addresses an issue that might make [...]

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More Snow Leopard Answers

August 26, 2009

What do you need to know… what do you need to do?
Some of us will have our hands on the new Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard, within a couple of days. I am going to install it immediately, but don’t necessarily recommend that you do. It’s a .0 version. Even though it’s similar [...]

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Coming soon to a Mac near you: Snow Leopard!

August 25, 2009

Mac OS X 10.6 ships August 28
Warning – this is a long post
Friday is the day… Pre-orders are scheduled. Amazon tells me that I should see my copy on Sept. 1 or so, and I’ll be reporting my experiences here in the next couple of weeks.
Most of the changes are under the hood… speed improvements, [...]

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Snow Leopard to ship August 28!

August 24, 2009

It’s official. Snow Leopard will ship in 4 days.
Apple Computer, 8/24/09:
Apple Announces Release of Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
Apple announced the release of Mac OS X v10.6, Snow Leopard. Mac OS X Snow Leopard is a powerful and refined version of the world’s most advanced operating system, Leopard, with hundreds of refinements, out-of-the-box support [...]

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Antiglare dislpay available on MacBook Pro 15″

August 11, 2009

Apple is offering a $50 option to provide the matte display they dropped last year. New Mac portables have come with glossy screens only on the unibody models, much to the dismay of a very vocal minority.
Apple did retain the option for a matte screen on the 17″ MacBook Pro, and now it’s an optional [...]

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Mac OS X 10.5.8 update released

August 5, 2009

Apple posted the new updated today, in a 10.5.8 Combo installer and a Server Combo installer, as well as incremental updates available through Software Update. As always, I recommend using the Combo updaters rather than Software Update for System updates, as it seems to provide less chance for instability.
You should back up your system before [...]

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