Every three years around this time, Apple comes out with a new version of iLife. So, given that the current suite was launched back in 2010, we had an inkling today we’d be getting an update today at Apple’s press event. Sure enough, the company just unveiled new versions of iPhoto, iMovie and …
Apple’s pulling out all the stops on its venerable Mac Pro line. This years edition offers more computing power than the entirety of some developing countries. Here’s what’s in store for Apple’s power users in 2013.
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As anticipated, Apple upgraded its high-end MacBook Pro line of notebook PCs with the latest Intel Haswell processors.
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This week with the incoming wave of OS X Mavericks announcements came the official unveiling of the 2013 Intel Core (Haswell)-packing MacBook Pro lineup. This new push for the 4th generation of Intel Core technology also has the MacBook Pro readied to be the highest-end solution for users looking for notebooks from the OS X […]
Coming out of the Apple event, it looks like OS X Mavericks is going to be available beginning today. This latest news comes just a few weeks after the gold master was made available for developers. But there is a bit more to this than simply getting access today. Apple has said they “want to […]
Apple’s latest Mac Pro rolls off United States assembly lines and into consumers hands in December for $3,000. The base model features a 3.7GHz quad-core Xeon CPU (“with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz”), 12GB DRAM, two AMD FirePro D300 GPUs, and a 256GB SSD. Apple senior VP of worldwide marketing …
Google is certainly a cash rich company, and hence, it is not surprising to hear of them going on another purchase outing, where this time around, it involves a company known as FlexyCore, which is an Android optimizer. The price that Google paid can be considered to be loose change – we are talking about just $23 million here. Just in case you were wondering what FlexyCore has released in the past, the company did deliver applications to manufacturers, carriers, and consumers in order to further improve one’s Android performance.
FlexyCore is based in France, and one of their apps, DroidBooster, has since been removed from the Google Play store. This is most probably because Google wants to streamline things after making their purchase. To sell it for $23 million thereabouts 5 years after being founded can be considered as quite the success, and Google themselves have already confirmed that they did pick up the FlexyCore company, citing that the team working there will be “a great fit” alongside their very own Android team. We cannot wait to see what Google and FlexyCore will be able to come up with in the near future, that’s for sure. Hopefully it will be something new and revolutionary instead of the same old, same old.
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Today at Apple’s press conference, the company unveiled updated MacBook Pro models with retina displays. The new laptops sport the latest Intel processors based on the Haswell architecture. Both the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros got updated.
The 13-inch model is lighter (under 3.5 lbs), slimmer (.71 inch thick) and has a bigger 9-hour battery. It has integrated graphics and Thunderbolt 2 – the new Thunderbolt could help drive external retina displays. The flash-based storage is faster and this laptop comes with a new Wi-Fi chip supporting the faster 802.11ac standard. The new 13-inch model starts at $1,299 instead of $1,499. For $1,299, you get a 2.5GHz dual core i5, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage and the Intel Iris graphics chip.
The 15-inch model comes with a quad core processor and Intel Iris Pro graphics. There are separate models with discrete graphics, but the entry-level one won’t get a dedicated AMD or Intel chip. It now sells for $1,999 instead of $2,199. For this price, you get a 2.0GHz quad core i7, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and the Iris Pro graphics integrated chip. Not shipping a dedicated graphics card is a step backward in some way, but it will certainly improve battery life. We will have to wait for benchmarks to see if the Intel chip is enough for a wide range of tasks.
These two MacBook Pros ship today. Phil Schiller didn’t say anything about the old MacBook Pro laptops with a DVD drive. These models will maybe be slowly phased out, but it’s unclear. Schiller kept saying “MacBook Pro”, like it was the only existing version. For now, there is one thing for sure – Apple is not putting any emphasis on its thick MacBook Pro.
If you’ve been waiting for the MacBook Pro with Retina display to get a big processor upgrade, today’s your lucky day. Apple has just refreshed its high-end portable line with Intel’s Haswell chips, delivering Iris graphics and battery life improvements much like those from the recent MacBook Air …
Apple has announced today that its flagship MacBook Pro models will be receiving a slew of modest improvements. Here’s what’s the new 13 and 15 inch machines will have under their hoods.
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