Hardware

not hardware, to make its billions. Microsoft is pretty late to the booming tablet industry, and it faces intimidating competition from Apple’s (AAPL) iPad — which by some estimates accounts for 63% of the global tablet market.  Furthermore …

Photo: JP Mangalindan/Fortune FORTUNE — Apple’s new 15-inch notebook may look thinner and lighter than older MacBook Pro models, but there’s no mistaking this for a MacBook Air. For $2,199, users get a more powerful 2.3 GHz quad-core Intel i7 … Continue reading →

Among other intriguing concepts, there is mention of iPhone 4 Data Execution Prevention (DEP), explaining how Apple implemented DEP with specific hardware changes in the iPhone 4 baseband and the reason for its failure. Interesting tidbits on how ultrasn0w …

Not only is the Retina MacBook Pro the fastest notebook, it has been tested to be the fastest Mac ever. The new i7 quad-core Intel processors plus the all flash storage (no spinning hard drives) reallyspeeds things along. The inclusion … Continue reading →

Apple’s (AAPL) World Wide Developer’s Conference has done more than just introduce the world to the latest offerings from the biggest name in technology, It has created another nightmare for their suppliers. In what should give executives at Intel (INTC … Continue reading →

Sonos is a company that sometimes gets compared to Apple because it designs the hardware and software for its products, a line of home audio equipment for listening to digital music. Now the company is raising money from a group … Continue reading →

Another side-effect of what Apple is doing here is that it is devaluing the operating system in preference to looking at the hardware and the operating system that make up a computer as a single product. Apple can afford to … Continue reading →

Lightweight Portable Security (LPS), a thin Linux operating system that creates a secure end node from trusted media on almost any Intel-based computer (PC or Mac), is now at version 1.3.5. As usual, LPS-Public comes with many updated packages and … Continue reading →

Apple’s collection of hardware has grown to sport an extremely impressive line these days, that it is always nice to have a blast from the past – case in point, someone who decided to install a 16-year-old version of Mac … Continue reading →

The first official hint that something big and hardware-related was on the cards came in the morning when Apple closed down its online store with a provocative message, but no details. Thankfully, answers were only a couple of hours away. … Continue reading →