MacBook Pro 2013 iFixit Teardowns point toward low repairability

Don’t purchase a MacBook Pro this late 2013 season expecting to be able to repait it on your own any time in the near future – at least not by the judgement of the team at iFixit. They’ve made with the teardown of both the MacBook Pro 13-inch and 15-inch units from this most recent […]

How to Optimize Your Mac for Gaming

How to Optimize Your Mac for Gaming

You may not immediately think "gaming" when you think "Mac," but there are tons of games for the Mac these days, and some of the most popular PC games are also available for OS X. Let’s take a look at a few ways to make those games run as smoothly as possible.

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How to Use Mavericks’ New Tools to Boost Your Battery Life

How to Use Mavericks’ New Tools to Boost Your Battery Life

If Apple’s new desktop operating system has one major point of emphasis, it’s battery life. Just installing the new OS can boost your web browsing time by an hour. And that’s just the beginning.

    



Apple has started selling OS X Mountain Lion redemption codes, alongside OS X Lion, for $20 each–so

Apple has started selling OS X Mountain Lion redemption codes, alongside OS X Lion, for $20 each—so you can still buy the old OS if you need to.

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iMovie 10 Review for OS X Mavericks

Today we’re having a look at the newest edition of Apple’s basic video editing software, that being OS X Mavericks’ own iMovie 10.0. With the release of OS X Mavericks comes the “free” generation of Apple-made software, and both iLife and iWork coming to the public without cost – with new machines, that is. Here […]

OS X Mavericks upgrade already on 5.5% of Macs says report

Apple’s OS X Mavericks free upgrade on Tuesday saw 5.5-percent of Mac owners update within 24 hours, new research suggests, significantly outpacing the rate of Mountain Lion adoption in 2012. A sampling of North American Mac users by ad network Chitika indicated upgrades of this week’s free OS release reached levels that the $19.99 Mountain […]

Flash Player locked up in OS X Mavericks

Adobe has corralled Flash Player in OS X Mavericks, sandboxing the much-maligned plugin in Safari on Apple’s latest Mac operating system so as to minimize its potential to allow through malware. The move – which follows Adobe sandboxing its plugins when used in Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox – follows Apple’s increasing moves to keep […]

How to Use OS X Mavericks

How to Use OS X Mavericks

Apple’s newest desktop operating system, OS X Mavericks, is available to download now. And it’s free! Here are some tips and tricks to get you started.

    



Why Making Mavericks Free Makes Perfect Sense

Why Making Mavericks Free Makes Perfect Sense

Yesterday, Apple not only released its OS X Mavericks operating system, it also announced that it would be free. That’s great! For you, for Apple, and for the future of computing.

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Your Mac’s New Look: Take a Tour of OS X Mavericks’ Visual Updates

Your Mac’s New Look: Take a Tour of OS X Mavericks’ Visual Updates

Mavericks is here. Apple’s new desktop operating system looks quite different than the previous version, OS X Mountain Lion. Take a tour of the differences.