Hardware

Amazon’s Apple war costs investors $20bn – Times of India

SEATTLE: Amazon.com Inc’s escalating pursuit of Apple squeezed its profit forecast for this quarter, prompting investors to erase as much as $20 billion from the company’s market value in late trading. Amazon’s operations could lose $200 million …

Nokia Windows Phone 7 Lumia 800 vs Apple iPhone 4S – Apple Insider

Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 device offers specifications somewhere between Apple’s iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, but is missing some key hardware and software features and will only debut in Europe, effectively leaving the US market to Apple and Android … Continue reading

NYT: Apple expected to release Siri-powered television by 2013 – Apple Insider

However, one source said that a full-fledged Apple TV set was a “guaranteed product,” as Jobs apparently felt the TV hardware business “is totally broken.” The article states that Apple has “quite a bit of work” left to do on … Continue reading

Apple MacBook Pro MC723LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop (OLD VERSION) – Zimbio

you’re sure to get a great Mac notebook – all in a precision aluminum unibody enclosure that’s less than an inch thin. 15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, 1440-by-900 resolution Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor and AMD Radeon HD …

Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Late 2011) – PC Magazine

The Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch gets new hardware and software, including a quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, AMD Radeon GPU, and OS X Lion, while keeping everything that works well, like the thin and stylish unibody design. In the competitive … Continue reading

Report: Microsoft, Intel Won’t Dent Tablet Market Until 2013 – PC Magazine

Notebook PC giants Intel and Microsoft may be gunning for tablet market share in 2012 but the two companies won’t begin to make even a small dent in a space dominated by Apple until the following year, according to a … Continue reading

Walter Isaacson’s book on Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson’s book “Steve Jobs” arrived this week. Jason Snell, Lex Friedman, Serenity Caldwell, and Dan Frakes discuss their reactions to the book and what it tells us about the man.

Intel Ultrabooks Take On Apple’s MacBook Air: Rich Jaroslovsky – BusinessWeek

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — It’s no secret the market for traditional laptop computers is under siege from tablets, with their lighter weight, near-instant-on performance and extended battery life. Now Intel Corp., whose chips power most personal …

Steve Jobs: The iPad Almost Had Intel Inside – Time

When Apple switched to Intel chips back in 2006, reality almost imploded, and when Steve Jobs launched the iPad without an Intel microprocessor, you could almost feel the ripples through the time-space continuum. What you probably didn’t know …

Steve Jobs Wanted Intel Chips for the iPad – Wall Street Journal

Intel’s stock price, and image, have suffered from the fact that its chips are not widely used in smartphones and tablet PCs. But it turns out that the Silicon Valley giant had an inside track when it came to Apple’s … Continue reading