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| WHAT’S NEW: THE LATEST APPLE NEWS & TECHNOLOGY |
September should see updates to the iPod family and Apple hints at other product announcements. |
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| Apple Market Share Continues to Rise | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Apple's overall market share for computers sits at around 14-percent, but when narrowed down to only contrast sales of higher-end PCs costing over $1000 – since only the venerable Mac Mini typically costs less – that number skyrockets to 66-percent. eWEEK's Joe Wilcox writes that the NPD analyst group discovered that as the PC desktop market is down about 25-percent, with laptop sales flat, Apple has seen 45-percent growth in desktops, and 50- to 60-percent growth with portables. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| iMacs Get Speed Bump, More RAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Faster Penryn processors (2.4GHz-3.06GHz), up from 2.0-2.8GHz Merom processors. The iMacs also incorporate the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors with 6MB L2 cache and faster 1066 MHz front-side bus (up from 800MHz). Specs are listed below: 20", 2.4GHz, 1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128MB. $1199 |
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| Introducing the World’s Thinnest Laptop: MacBook Air |
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MacBook Air is ultra thin, ultra portable, and ultra unlike anything else. It is not for everyone, with its limited storage, memory, and ports. But go to an Apple Store and pick one up. Hold it in your hands. Type on it. Play with it. And you just might fall in love. It is not just thin, it is remarkable. |
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| Leopard Roars as OS X 10.5 is Released |
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 Laying “the foundation for the next generation of personal computing,” Leopard “redefines what personal computing looks like,” according to Michael Gartenberg (computerworld.com). And Gartenberg offers a litany of Leopard features by which he’s impressed. “Cover Flow, a feature first used in iTunes, lets you browse files visually and then see a file’s contents without opening it.” He argues that “Apple’s IM client, iChat, runs rings around what’s available for other systems.” He’s always used his “e-mail in-box as a to-do list,” Gartenberg admits, “and Apple’s Mail client makes that really work.” [Nov 02, 2007] ars technica article |
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| Apple Bumps up iPod touch, iPhone, Revamps Existing iPod Lineup |
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| iPhone Now at 8 and 16 GB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
”It's the best portable media player ever. It's possibly the most fun we've ever had with a handheld device. It browses the Web like a champ. Fun new interface for navigating multimedia. Huge screen looks amazing. Terrific Web browser. Syncs well with PCs and Macs. YouTube function is great. Functions flow seamlessly into each other. Built-in speaker for voice calling and music.” The iPhone is already the second-most popular cellular phone in the US, and third in the world. Some say it is revolutionizing what people think a cell phone should be, and changing the entire cell phone industry. |
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| Adobe Releases Creative Suite 3; CS4 announced | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 The long-awaited Macintosh Intel-native upgrade to Adobe’s flagship products are out. Adobe Creative Suite 3 in a multitude of configurations are now shipping. Details |
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| The Current Line of Macintosh Computers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Get my take on the current lineup of Macintosh computers. The switch to Intel processors is complete and to almost everyone's surprise it was a smooth ride. Apple doubled the number of Macs it sold during the year of transition. Now that Adobe has produced native versions of their flagship software, all existing users of Intel Macs (and Adobe's new software) will see a speed increases as well as improved stability. We now await Microsoft's introduction of Office 2007 (now scheduled for 2008) for the Mac to see it running natively as well. |
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iMac updates provided a few surprising upgrades to the existing iMacs. The key changes include:
iPod touch (now 8, 16 and 32 GB) is nearly identical to the iPhone in appearance, with a large screen and a customary 'home' button at the bottom. Sometimes called an iPhone without the phone, it is even thinner and sleeker than the iPhone. Like laptops, the internet will be available when the iPod touch is in range of a WI-FI network or hot spot. The best iPod ever now matches video and many other feature with the iPhone.
The "iPod Classic," a new version of the full-size iPod, will sport capacities of 80GB and 160GB. The 80GB model is thinner than the old 30GB version, and the 160GB model is thinner than the old 80GB version. The 80GB model is priced at $250, the 160GB model at $350. The new models feature the same user interface enhancements as the new iPod Nano.
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