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If you were expecting to upgrade to Apple OS X Mountain Lion on your lunch break then you may want to think twice. According to an Apple reseller out of New York, Mountain Lion upgrades can take as little as 13 minutes or as long as nearly an hour. Tekserve, which claims to be “New York’s largest independent Apple store”, timed the upgrade that it installed on multiple Mac desktops and laptops, averaging the times for each model and posting the results in a recent blog post. Mountain Lion costs $19.99 and can be installed on most recent Mac devices running OS X Lion orRead More →

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A government officer from Taiwan is warning local PC vendors of a new Apple patent for the MacBook Air that could be used in legal action in an attempt to stop the sales of Ultrabooks from competitive manufacturers. Apple has already tried this tactic on Samsung, attempting to halt sales of the company’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Nexus smartphone. In both cases Apple has successfully halted sales of the devices in the United States. The Cupertino company received a U.S. patent last month for the exterior wedge-like design of its MacBook Air devices. The intellectual property office of Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, though,Read More →

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Apple is reportedly going to introduce its all new MacBook Pro lineup, complete with Retina Display technology, as early as October of this year. The next-gen 13″ laptop would come with a screen resolution of 2,560 x 1,600, which is higher than any HDTV on the market. In addition to that, this MacBook Pro would come with the third-gen Ivy Bridge processor from Intel, though it would lack an optical drive and discrete graphics and use flash storage instead of a hard drive. All of this is just the opinion of one analyst, KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo. However, Kuo did accurately predict that Apple would stopRead More →

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Apple has been molding its operating system to support higher resolutions, according to recent reports, which makes the rumors about the next generation of MacBooks having the same retina display that the new generation of the iPad has seem a little more likely. The 10.7.4 update for OS X that was recently released had some hidden changes that indicated that Apple is about to release something big. It has already been reported by Apple Insider that the icon for the built-in TextEdit application’s highest quality version has been increased to 1,024 x 1,024, which is double the 512 x 512 that it used to be.Read More →

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Ultrabooks, the super-slim notebook computers designed around an Intel core and set to dethrone Apple’s MacBook, are seen as a very successful and productive market by many in the tech industry. However, AMD doesn’t think too highly of the Ultrabook brand and is reportedly planning to introduce its very own super-slim netbooks powered by the company’s A Series Trinity APUs. AMD is planning on offering better prices on these devices compared to the products released by Apple and other companies, which will subsequently start a price war in the world of ultra-thin, ultra-portable notebook computers. AMD is currently looking at a price of around $500, theRead More →

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Lots of talk has been circulating around Asus’ first ultrabook, the company’s response to the MacBook series of laptops from Apple. But one thing that hasn’t been talked about is the release date, until now. Asus will begin selling its Intel-branded ultrabook with the release of its UX21 ultrathin laptop on October 11, 2011. News of this release date first surfaced when a fancy graphic appeared on the Asus UX series landing page on Monday. The graphic promised a launch event that is supposed to take place in New York City on the 11th. Like I said before, ultrabooks are Intel’s answer to Apple’s highlyRead More →

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So ever since the 2011 MacBook Pro came out, people have been complaining about a number of issues that they seem to be experiencing. Just because the device is labeled “Pro” doesn’t mean that it is perfect. The device did get off to a rocky start with some users experiencing issues when outputting video through the Thunderbolt port to their Cinema Displays. Other users experienced freezing issues if their processing loads got too heavy. Read More →

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So, how did Apple celebrate its CEO Steve Jobs’ 56th birthday on Thursday, February 24? Well, by announcing the new and improved line of MacBook Pros, of course. For weeks there have been rumors swirling around about the possible launch of the new MacBook Pros. MacRumors and AppleInsider both were citing unnamed sources and saying that the information would be released this Thursday, and when Apple employees were reportedly asked to sign nondisclosure agreements to attend a major retail meeting “later this week,” this just confirmed the speculation. So, what is the new MacBook Pro like, you might ask. In my opinion, it’s pretty muchRead More →

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It’s that time of year again! Kids are packing up and heading off to college, and they are taking their laptops with them. According to a recent study by Student Monitor, a New Jersey-based research company, the laptop of choice for college students is Apple’s Macbook. The survey consisted of 1,200 college students from 100 different schools and 83% of those surveyed owned laptops. The most popular laptop, by far, was the Macbook. 27% of laptop-owning college students have one. 87% of the students surveyed said they plan to purchase a new laptop in the future and of those, a whopping 47% of those saidRead More →

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When the polycarbonate, unibody MacBook was first released by Apple, many people were turned away from it. It wasn’t that the laptop itself was horrible, despite a few shortcomings. The problem many people had with it was that device itself didn’t seem to warrant a $999 price tag. Well good news, for some of you out there, has just been seen on Apple’s website. The unibody MacBook has just seen a price drop to $728. But there is a catch. The $728 price is only available to students and educators and for a limited time only. The MacBook is a good laptop all around. ItRead More →