Hardware

The newest version of the MacBook Air, Apple’s lightest notebook, includes a faster processor from Intel, the Ivy Bridge chip. The top-line MacBook Pro adds the company’s Retina display, which the company said has the highest-resolution display of any …

MacBook Air, remained at $999 — Apple also boosted the RAM to 4GB across the board; swapped in Intel dual-core processors from its new third-generation “Ivy Bridge” architecture, the first to use a 22-nanometer manufacturing process …

Best guess: News will come on those soon. As mentioned above, no Apple TV, and that included hardware as well as software. We knew the odds on Apple TV hardware were slim to none, and the keynote didn’t pull any … Continue reading →

The upgrades marked a bolstering of Apple’s arsenal as it tries to keep its top-down applications and hardware environment ahead of competition from Android device makers such as Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and Motorola Mobility. But the …

Name-calling goes only so far, which is why Apple made an effort to point out that its strategy of selling a more limited group of iOS-capable hardware (the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) resulted in more users staying up to … Continue reading →

Apple’s MacBook Pro also sees new internals, but at the same price points as last year. Intel dual-core i5 and i7 chips power the new 13-inch Pros up to 2.9 GHz while the 15-incher goes quad core i7 up to … Continue reading →

Apple’s other MacBooks are being updated with the latest processors from Intel Corp. Apple will still sell a more traditional 15-inch MacBook Pro, with a standard display.

As Forrester analyst Ted Schadler blogs: “These advances come only a year after Apple’s last upgrades to this already-powerful software, hardware, and ecosystem. In a world where technology is embedded in how you do business, this is an …

Apple has also redesigned the way the screen sits in the … As for cost, the base model, with a 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 “Ivy Bridge” processor, 8 gigabytes of memory and 256 gigabytes of flash storage, is $2,199.

First introduced in 2003 as part of the PowerBook line, Apple’s 17-inch notebook computer has long been the choice for users who needed the power and capability of a desktop without completely sacrificing portability. The 17-inch Intel-based …