Is Apple readying revised pro portables with faster processors and crunchier graphics? A Spanish Mac Web site has been trawling the depths of an upcoming release of Snow Leopard point update and found evidence of just that.
Of course the Windows fan boys will whimper and whinge that one or another aspect of these tests aren’t “fair” or otherwise inaccurate. Nevertheless, this is just the latest in a string of many comparisons, going back over four or five years that show the Mac is just plain faster, better and longer lasting.
The world is all abuzz with hype about the upcoming release of Windows 7 and some pundits have even gone so far as to predict that Redmond’s “new” operating system will help it claw back market share gains made by Apple’s OS X over the past few years. If past performance is anything to go by, however, Cupertino’s Mac masters have little to worry about.
In the years since Greenpeace singled out the company, pimping the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod and iPhone maker’s high-profile name and products to push its agenda, Apple has moved aggressively to seize the initiative and is now trying to change terms of the debate.
Although a lot of heat and smoke has been generated by the solid state disc market, can you really make a good case for purchasing and using one of these relatively low capacity, über expensive “toys”? Here’s a closer look at the pros and cons of this still exotic technology.
A recent 31-second smash-and-grab robbery at a New Jersey Apple store is just the latest in a chain of similar crimes, proving the attractiveness of Apple’s hardware among even the criminal element.
In an admission that it may have been hasty in withdrawing matte, non-glare options from its line of laptops, Apple has reinstated that option to glossy screens at a price of $50.
Over the course of a weekend I watched every episode of Law and Order: SVU and as TV actors go, Ice-T’s quite OK. Yes, he’s always himself and that’s pretty much what you’re going to see and hear, a little cursing, in this clip.
For years, there were three truisms you could count on, death, taxes and that PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak was good for at least one troll hole, link bait, piece o’ offal every month. Whether it was to boost his pageviews or just to enjoy watching the Mac fan boys squirm and squeal, he was so regular you could almost set your watch by him.
When Apple rejiggered its top shelf portables and moved to include the smaller, unibody consumer model, more than a few were taken unaware. Now comes news that apparently even Apple hadn’t anticipated—users have not only accepted the move, they’re embracing it to the point of buying all available entry-level 13-inch pro portables.
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