Hardware

Amazon is not a hardware company – CNET News

A question from our editor got me to realize this. He said, “How is it that Amazon has gone from an e-commerce site to a hardware maker ready to take on Apple?” Because, Jim, Amazon doesn’t try to make a … Continue reading

Apple squashes Psystar clone Mac appeal – SlashGear

The injunction had been granted back in December 2009, blocking Psystar from loading copies of OS X onto generic PC hardware and selling its cut-price Mac alternative. However, despite Apple’s request for secrecy, the appeals court refused to seal the … Continue reading

Samsung Reportedly Offers Apple a Patent Deal in Australia – Top Tech News

Designed with a fast Intel® Core™ i5 vPro™ processor*, magnesium alloy … A deal covering one country may be in the works in the escalating patent war between Samsung and Apple. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal … Continue reading

From Kindle to Fire: Why Amazon Needs to Go Global – Wired News

If you look at how Apple became (by some measures) the biggest technology company in the world, the iPhone, iPad and Intel Macs are a huge part of that story, but largely because those products gave Apple a foothold in … Continue reading

Al Qaeda Leader Anwar al-Awlaki Killed in Yemen – Nymag.com

“Jihad,” Awlaki said last year, “is becoming as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea.” A Yemeni official told the New York Times that Awlaki was killed along with a number of his bodyguards in the country’s … Continue reading

Apple iMAC All In One A1311 21.5 Desktop (Intel Core I3 3.06Ghz, 500GB Hard Drive, 4096Mb RAM, DVDRW Drive, OS X 10.6.3) – Zimbio

The iMac “Core i3″ 3.06 21.5-Inch Aluminum (Mid-2010) is powered by a dual core 3.06 GHz Intel “Core i3″ I3-540 (Clarkdale) processor with a dedicated 256k level 2 cache for each core and a 4 MB shared level 3 cache. … Continue reading

Court Rules Against Psystar, Upholds Apple’s Mac OS X Restrictions – Hot Hardware

The court agreed with Apple that PsyStar was free to develop both hardware and software derivatives to OS X and that Apple was legally free to lock down its OS environment. The deck was stacked against Psystar to some extent … Continue reading

Analysis: Speedy Thunderbolt devices slowly coming to market – Digital Arts Online

“They will notice it.” All that talk of speed, however, raises a perplexing issue. Seven months after Apple and Intel announced that the newest MacBook Pros would ship with Thunderbolt, peripheral-connection devices that take advantage of the new …

Apple victorious: Courts deny hackintosher’s final plea – The Register

despite the fact that Apple’s end-user licensing agreement for Mac OS X clearly forbade running it on non-Apple hardware. “You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-labeled computer,” the EULA read, “or to enable … Continue reading

Appeals court: Apple can continue to restrict OS X to Mac hardware – Ars Technica

Apple has the right to continue restricting its operating systems to its own hardware thanks to a decision handed down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday. Circuit Judge Mary Schroeder wrote in her opinion that Apple’s Mac … Continue reading