Hardware

Apple plans to use a Liquidmetal technology, a new alloy, in its ‘breakthrough product’, one of its inventors has revealed. WASHINGTON: Apple plans to use a Liquidmetal technology, a new alloy, in its ‘breakthrough product’, one of its inventors …

“The market for big flat-panels has been satiated”, he writes in the report here. Kunz then notes that: “Apple’s real play will be content sales, not TV hardware profits.” He suggests: “Apple could grab a slice of a $144 billion … Continue reading →

… for the last several years—on the “tick,” Intel moves a current chip design to a smaller process. Then on the “tock” it introduces a new architecture at the same process. It appears Apple is employing a similar strategy, moving … Continue reading →

Another possibility, as I’ve written before, is that we’ve reached a plateau where new hardware has ceased to be exciting. What could Apple possibly do on the hardware front to blow the tech world away? Bigger screen with a high … Continue reading →

… Apple’s TV solution but are not a necessity for Apple to be successful in the living room, in our view,” he opined. 

Rather, Moskowitz sees the “tight integration of hardware and software, industrial design, and ease of use” as … Continue reading →

Mac mini with a 2.3GHz Intel dual-core i5 processor, 2GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive. Or save $100 on the refurb. Mac mini with a 2.5GHz Intel dual-core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive, … Continue reading →

“We acknowledge that an integral part of the user’s experience is Apple’s content offerings, but we think that the tight integration of hardware and software, industrial design, and ease of use are more important,” he wrote. Apple might decide to … Continue reading →

Prominent hardware review site AnandTech has an interesting analysis on the processor inside Apple’s refreshed iPad 2 tablets, which reportedly boast a different variation of the A5 chip. The A5 applications processor inside Apple’s cheaper iPad 2 …

Cupertino, California-based Apple’s newest iPhone was unveiled seven months ago. “In terms of hardware specifications, the new model meets expectations,” Kim Hyung Sik, a Seoul-based analyst at Taurus Investment Securities Co., said by phone.

However, he did find that Target carried most of the company’s product lineup, with the exception of Mac hardware and software. “The Apple micro-store was staffed by a Target employee who claimed to have received two hours of training from … Continue reading →