Hardware

“I’ve been meaning to tell this story for a while,” Kim Scheinberg writes for Covestor. “The year is 2000. My husband (JK) has been working at Apple for 13 years. Our son is a year old, and we want to … Continue reading →

Apple and Google have got a lot of press over designs on TV-playing devices in people’s homes. Now Intel is staking its claim, too. Intel has been working out a business plan to issue a set-top box with a subscription … Continue reading →

Not only does it allow Cook to highlight Apple’s direction for the next year, but also lets him showcase new hardware, talk up OS X Mountain Lion and the next version of iOS and get developers enthused about the company’s … Continue reading →

And there will likely be a new line of Macintosh laptops too – underscoring the leverage that a full line of hardware products can bring to what is mainly a software war with Google. Apple is looking to differentiate its … Continue reading →

The least probable rumour of WWDC 2012 is that the Apple TV set will show up. We do not believe this will happen primarily because WWDC has always focused on software innovation rather than hardware and it is unlikely the … Continue reading →

Apple’s flagship laptop is the prime candidate for update. New Ivy Bridge processors (aka third-generation Intel Core) can slot into the same motherboards as the previous Sandy Bridge (second-generation Intel Core) CPUs. Updated MacBook Pros would get …

The new models ($599 and $799 for standard configurations) featured both a Thunderbolt port, a new industry standard pushed most heavily by Apple and Intel so far, and an HDMI port, the format used to output video to a high-definition … Continue reading →

Does the Microsoft camp’s convergence argument win the day? Apple CEO Tim Cook has been clear about tablet-laptop convergence: not interested. But Microsoft, Intel, Asus, Acer, Lenovo, and a long list of PC makers are. Very. That would be due … Continue reading →

Congratulations to anyone who owns a 17-inch MacBook Pro, it may just be a collector’s item in a few months. Apple apparently feels as though the era of 17-inch laptops has run its course, and in a research note shared … Continue reading →

Apple is always completely tight-lipped about new products and enhancements to its hardware and software, so its anyone’s guess what the company will be announcing. Rumors point to Apple releasing its own 3D Maps, adding deeper Facebook …