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No big surprise, the new iPhone 4 launches June 24

June 7, 2010

Macworld.com says it as well as anyone in their article posted today. The iPhone 4 will be available June 24, following the IOS (the new operating system for iPhone/iPad/Touch) rollout June 21. iPhone 3 and 3G owners and iPad users will have some of the benefits of the new IOS, but the iPhone 4 has [...]

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It’s Official: Apple Is Now Worth More Than Microsoft

May 26, 2010

The San Francisco Chronicle’s web site SFGate.com reports that Apple, while not quite as well capitalized as Microsoft, has an actual business value higher than the Redmond Giant. … As of yesterday’s stock market close, Apple had a market capitalization of $223 billion. Apple has $23 billion of cash and no debt. Apple’s enterprise value, [...]

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MacBook updated, with longer battery life

May 21, 2010

Apple released the new, updated MacBook portables this week, with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, and the Nvidia new GeForce 320M graphics card. Battery life is now listed at 10 hours, a radical improvement from the 7 hours the previous model boasted. The MacBook ships with 2 GB RAM (expandable to 4GB), a 250GB [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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