Hardware

Amid the “oohs” and “aahs” for new Mac hardware and upcoming iOS 6 features that Apple announced this week, perhaps the least expensive new item out of Cupertino was missed. It’s no less important, however, for iPad owners. While the … Continue reading →

Apple had to squeeze plenty of hardware into the Retina MacBook Pro’s .71-inch thick frame, and just like the MacBook Air, the company had to sacrifice expandability in order to do so. IFixit notes that the new MacBook Pro’s RAM … Continue reading →

Apple’s newest 15-inch uber-notebook may be thinner and lighter than older MacBook Pro models, but its redesigned aluminum body houses a potent array of features. For $2,199, users get a 2.3 GHz quad-core Intel i7 processor, 8-gigabytes of RAM …

A cleanly divided world in which one company (Apple) sold hardware and software and another (Google) supplied the services that ran never seemed likely to last. Internet services, after all, are merely software delivered in another form. And, as Apple … Continue reading →

and a 4-channel Intel Thunderbolt controller, which powers the two included Thunderbolt ports. Apple is using the same low-power Hynix DDR3 RAM chips found in the latest MacBook Air. The Retina MacBook Pro uses a thermal venting system similar …

Unlike Apple’s hardware and software products, most of which have been tremendously successful in the last couple of years, the company’s social network has been poorly received from the very beginning. With the announced Facebook integration …

Culmination of irony, it seems that Apple (AAPL), Nokia (NOK), Intel (INTC), HP (HPQ), Cisco (CSCO), and a set of congressional representatives are lobbying the International Trade Commission on behalf of Microsoft (MSFT) and against Google (GOOG).

According to Jeff Trachsel, chief marketing officer for NextWorth, the best laptop trade-in values are for Apple, HP, Dell, Sony, Toshiba and Compaq. The highest-value laptops will likely come with Intel Core i7, Intel Core i5, Intel Core i3 or … Continue reading →

That story mostly revolves around Ivy Bridge, Intel’s new 22-nanometer processor that boasts upgraded graphics silicon (“up to 60 percent faster graphics,” says Apple). But there are a few more subtle changes, too, according to iFixit’s teardown.

And even if app incompatibilities don’t result, is Apple risking Android levels of user confusion as it continues to withhold features from its legacy — but still for sale — hardware? This latest slight, keeping turn-by-turn directions off …