Production of Apple's new MacBooks is ramping up, causing labour shortages in the supply chain.

Despite a tumultuous 2011 that was mired by supply side challenges and weakening consumer demand, IDC found that the A/NZ PC market ended the 2011 calendar year with 6.8 million units shipped and a year-on-year (YoY) growth of six per cent.

Apple refreshed its MacBook Pro laptop line Thursday, and it's not just about speeds and feeds this time. With the addition of Intel's Sandy Bridge processor, AMD graphics, Facetime-enabled HD camera and a new high-speed Thunderbolt I/O port (reportedly 12 times faster than Firewire), this year's MacBook Pro update is a significant revamp. Let's take a closer look at what's new in the 2011 MacBook Pro.

"More power" is the theme of Apple's new MacBook Pro notebook computers unveiled Thursday, with multi-core processors, improved graphics, and a blazingly fast new I/O technology called Thunderbolt that tops out at 10Gbps.

Apple is screwing with screws, again.

Anyware Computer Accessories has been appointed national distributor for third-party Apple accessory vendor, Moshi.

Apple today quietly refreshed its entry-level MacBook laptop, boosting the processor speed and inserting a longer-life battery.

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.

It took Apple a while to finally get around to updating the 17-inch MacBook Pro, but the wait was more than worth it.

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.