Just the facts, ma’am. From Apple’s Snow Leopard specs page: As mentioned earlier, Snow Leopard is Intel only. Snow Leopard has an Apple Up-to-Date Program. If you purchased a qualifying Mac on or after June 8, 2009, that does not include Mac OS X Snow Leopard, you can upgrade for $9.95. To upgrade from Mac […]
Today Apple updated the specifications on the base model white MacBook: Processor speed upgraded from 2.0 GHz to 2.13 GHz. RAM bumped from 667 MHz to 800 MHz (same as aluminum MacBooks). Click to read about this RAM Hard drives increased from 120 GB to 160 GB. It’s now possible to custom order a white […]
Happy Cinco de Mayo, Apple! In Consumer Reports’ upcoming June issue, Apple tops all three categories for notebook computers. In the 13in category, the Unibody MacBook beat out 5 other notebooks—though the list included both the MacBook Air Solid State Drive and the plastic-cased MacBook in the #2 and #3 spots! In the 14-16in category, […]
Say it with me: “NAH – HAY – LEM” Today Apple introduced an all-new Xserve line that reportedly delivers up to two times the performance of the previous generation while providing enhanced energy efficiency. Based on next-generation Intel “Nehalem” architecture, the new Xserve features a single-die quad-core architecture, a fully shared 8MB L3 cache design, […]
With the introduction of the iTunes App Store some time ago, the iPhone and iPod Touch became even more useful devices. Anyone could be an iPhone developer and get their software onto the App store, and thousands of people have done just that. My iPod Touch has five pages of Apps ranging from Pandora, for […]
At today’s iPhone 3.0 event in Cupertino, CA, Apple announced changes to the iPhone software and a new version of the Apple Developer Kit. Here’s a rundown of what we can expect: For End-Users Cut and Paste capabilities. To copy and select, users will double-tap (or tap and drag to select longer parts of text) […]
The Mac mini was finally updated today. This follows months of speculation about its imminent demise. I’m glad Apple is keeping the Mac mini in production, as it fills an important niche in the sub-$1000 desktop category. The new Mac mini is a bona fide desktop contender, offering OS 10.5 Leopard and iLife 09 in […]
Part Two: How iTunes Implements the FairPlay DRM System Apple has addressed the changes in customer demand as it related to the music industry with the iTunes Store. Before, we may not have conceived of purchasing music without a hard copy—the record, 8-track, cassette, CD and album art in our hands! Now, it has become […]
iTunes Plus is making the transition in the iTunes Store, and I thought I’d get you prepared with a primer about what this distinction really means. The breakdown is as follows: There will soon be 3 different price points at which to purchase online songs—the .69 song, the .99 song and the $1.29 song. The […]
The blogosphere has been abuzz with claims that the first Mac virus or trojan has been identified in the wild. It’s been reported that many users downloading iWork ’09 or Adobe Creative Suite 4 programs from less-than-legal sources (read: pirating it) got more than they bargained for. It’s been reported through several outlets that the […]
