Apple may have missed the netbook boat by not producing a low-priced notebook to compete with the ultra-cheap portables
Apple may have missed the netbook boat by not producing a low-priced notebook to compete with the ultra-cheap portables that have cornered a significant portion of the PC market, a survey published today said.
'Same old, same old', complains analyst about refresh sans price cuts
Apple today revamped its iMac, MacBook and Mac mini lines in a long-expected refresh that company executives hinted yesterday was imminent.
US-based research firm believes iMacs and MacBooks will be updated in coming weeks
Will an updated series of Macs appear shortly? Wedge Partners, a Denver-based research firm, thinks there's a good chance that iMacs and MacBooks "in the next several weeks".
New business laptop is 25 percent thinner than T400, weighs under 1.77kg
Showing again that rugged business-oriented laptops can play the thin-and-light game, Lenovo has revealed a slimmed-down ThinkPad that boasts a number of other trademark innovations for the mobile workforce.
Upgrades can push the price past $5k, though, so choose wisely
It took Apple a while to finally get around to updating the 17-inch MacBook Pro, but the wait was more than worth it.
iPhoto now scans photos for faces and uses geotagging to organize albums
Apple's iLife suite has long been a cornerstone of the company's "digital hub" strategy for organizing, managing and creatively using the array of digital media available today. In the latest version, iLife '09, the suite received major updates to almost all of its five applications. The only application that didn't gain any revolutionary new features was iDVD, Apple's tool for creating DVDs of movies and photos edited with the other iLife apps.
Apple's claim on "world's thinnest notebook" no longer true.
Rumors about a rival to Apple's MacBook Air first emerged a few weeks ago in the form of Dell's much anticipated Adamo. Yet although other big name companies like Toshiba, Samsung, HP and MSI have created their own slim laptops, there seems to be extra hype surrounding Dell's Adamo. The question is, will the Adamo, or even MSI's X-Slim Series X320, win this round as the thin laptop favorite?
Is the newest laptop Apple's next Cube? Or a great leap ahead?
Whenever Apple releases newly designed products -- meaning hardware offering more than just a speed bump -- the greater question is, "What does it mean?" That is, are the new features mere anomalies, or are they something truly new that will set the shape, material and design of the future?
Users moan that dropping FireWire from the MacBook only serves to force people into buying the MacBook Pro.
Apple customers unhappy that the company dropped FireWire from its newest notebooks are venting their frustrations on the company's support forum in several hundred messages.
New MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air designs carved from blocks of aluminum for strength and lower costs.
Apple Tuesday unveiled an entirely new lineup of laptop Macs, carved from blocks of aluminum for strength and lower costs, and equipped with powerful graphics chipsets.
