Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh in 1984
Showing posts with label Apple Mac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple Mac. Show all posts
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Sunday, 8 July 2012
Apple has been on one hell of a tear lately. The company's signature iPhone dominates the smartphone market. Apple's new iPad is, by far, the best selling tablet being sold today. There's only one market where Apple is still playing catch up: Computer sales, an arena where PCs still dominate. But even there, Apple can find a silver lining: CNN is reporting that the gap between Mac sales and PC sales is the smallest its been since the 1990s.
Currently, PCs are outselling Macs by a ratio of about 20 to 1. That's a huge lead, but Apple has been steadily closed the gap over the last decade from its 2004 low of 55 to 1. When you factor in mobile devices such as phones and tablet computers, the PC vs. Mac gap closes to a mere 2 to 1, with Apple likely to draw even within the next year or two.
According to tech analyst Horace Dediu of Asymco, the secret to Apple's recent success is the MacBook. "The MacBook became easily differentiable as a 'better' laptop. It was not faster, did not have more storage or any key metrics being used to sell PCs. It was just better as an integrated product." And given the splash that the new MacBook Pro with Retina display is making in tech circles, Apple may wind up seeing yet another strong boost in their market share.
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Yes, we’ve been using Office 2010 for quite some time now, but Microsoft sure has not forgotten the Mac users. Yes, we might have a good debate in between Windows and other OS, but there’s no deny that despite there’s so many alternatives out there, free or not, Microsoft’s flagship desktop suite of productivity, Microsoft Office is still the best out there.
“We develop Office for Mac to give you the tools to create great-looking and compatible documents — with options to pick the right edition for your Mac needs,” said Eric Wilfrid, general manager, Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) at Microsoft Corp. “More than ever before, Office 2011 brings the familiar productivity tools and features of Microsoft Office to a suite of applications that work great on the Mac.”
Office 2011 for Mac replaces Microsoft’s Mac-specific Entourage email app with the industry standard Outlook, brings in some interface tweaks from Office 2010 over in PC land, and integrates with those Office Web Apps you’ve been hearing so much about. The entire “Home & Business” bundle goes for $279, and if you’re not so into Outlook, you can get the much cheaper “Home & Student” which only comes with Word / PowerPoint / Excel for $149. I think the “Home & Student” package is a steal, really.
Monday, 25 October 2010
Obviously, the naughty hands over at iFixit rushed to get hold of the MacBook Air that was just launched. But somehow, they find it pretty frustrating, though not that hard still, to open up the new ‘Air’. Here’s the highlight given by iFixit:
* The flip-open port door has been scrapped and the IR sensor and sleep LED are gone. In exchange, the new model manages to fit an extra USB 2.0 port along its right edge.
* Apple apparently doesn’t want you inside this thing. They decided to use proprietary 5-point security Torx screws to attach the lower case. Once inside, the Air is held together with more normal 6-point T5 and T8 Torx screws.
* The battery is comprised of six individual lithium-polymer cells, which combine to form a 35 Watt-hour battery.
* Although in a different form factor, the new MacBook Air uses the same Broadcom BCM943224 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip as the current lineup of MacBook Pros.
* The back of the trackpad has a Broadcom BCM5976A0K chip on it, likely responsible for the multi-touch capabilities of the the trackpad.
* The 11.6″ MacBook Air features a resolution of 1366×768. That’s a few more pixels and noticeably more widescreen (16×9 vs 16×10) than the 1280×800 resolution of previous Air models. In a welcome improvement, Apple has substantially enhanced the rigidity of the display assembly.
Steve Jobs don’t want you to mess with his Air…
Friday, 25 June 2010
It has been known widely that Mac machines failed miserably when it comes to gaming. Its more prove when Steam launches “Steam for Mac”, with titles like Portal failing miserably along frame rates of under 40, whereas the same machine running Portal on Windows 7 using boot camp faired better with decent frame rates of above 60.
Many users of Mac has been whining and raging due to such issue, and Valve has responded that major improvement will be coming as they work together with Apple, ATI, and Nvidia to layout the problems and fix the issue. Things like OpenGL and drivers will be optimized along the way.
Thursday, 17 June 2010
When Apple released the new face of Mac Mini, I was wondering what it’ll look like inside. The heart of the mini would be quite fascinating for being so small and yet packing quite lot of stuff in there. Must be a jungle! But while I’m daydreaming of such crazy things, some really crazy peeps actually go and do the do. I mean like, wtf? The geeks over at ifixit.com actually dissect the new Mac Mini! Head over there and have a look for youself!
Strangely this did not come out from WWDC, but anyway it is still a great update from the already-dated mini. It seemed that Apple did not forget the desktop crowd despite the fuss going on over the handheld market. Thanks for the love, Apple.
The Mac mini gets a unibody aluminum exterior which looks absolutely sexy and gorgeous, as usual from the design lab of Apple. But there’s another twist. It seemed that there’s a new enclosure ala removable panel at the bottom which allows users to have access to the memory slots. That sure comes in handy.
Apple also adds in a slight added punch to the mini’s fist, though not a very strong punch I might say. For the price of $699, you’ll get a somewhat much-dated 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB of RAM, and a 320GB hard drive. There’s also an SD card reader, 802.11n wireless integrated, a Mini DisplayPort, and also an Nvidia GeForce 320M chip lingering inside, which Apple claims is a doubling of graphics performance. But that doesn’t seem to be doubling to me. HDMI port is finally included, which makes me wonder whether this baby would be a perfect fit for the HTPC role in my living room. I was actually dreaming of a Core i3 update with H55M chipset running on Intel HD Graphics. Again, Apple seemed to be so dated when it comes to desktop hardware.
But there’s good news for those minimalist. The new chassis is 1.4-inch tall, yet Apple manages to hamper everything from chips and salmon to power circuitry and fries into the new unibody. This actually means that the white glossy power brick is now gone. Not really gone, but actually its hidden in the chassis too. This seemed to be the biggest news and selling point for the new mini I guess. Now the mini is a real mini.
Customization is still available, of kush. Apple stills allow customers to swap the optical drive for an additional HDD. For $999, there’s two 500GB bricks for you, as well as the Snow Leopard Server (what?), 4GB of RAM, and a slightly faster 2.66GHz Intel chip. Still looks very premium to me.
The new removable compartment.
Reveals the inner intestines of the Mac Mini after removing the cover. See the ram slot?
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Apple has put up a HTML5 version of their site, show casting some of the cool features of HTML5. This shows that Apple is very serious about not supporting Flash, as it insist that “open standards are the future of the web, not add-ons”.
Head over to Apple’s HTML5 site and have a taste of this new standard. Samples include video, typography, photo galleries, transitions, audio, 360 object manipulation, and VR implementations including the source code so devs can tinker around for themselves. But bare in mind that you’ll need to download Safari 4 in order to view those demos. But then, that site is for developers anyway.
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