Topic: Apple MacBook

Tech Watch: Apple's MacBook Announcement Eclipses Toshiba's New Notebooks; Warner Reveals DivX Distribution Plans

While Apple's Steve Jobs wowed Mac addicts with the latest versions of the MacBook today, Toshiba quietly announced a roundup of new notebooks. Care to wager on the winner?READ»

Apple MacBook Rumors Intensify

As we reported last week on this blog, a number of industry rumors point to October 14th as a drop date for the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros from Apple [AAPL]. Rumors out of Nvidia [NVDA] seemed to confirm that date, as a graphics ...READ»

Has NVIDIA Leaked New MacBook Details?

Rumors have been afire that Apple [AAPL] is coming shortly with new MacBooks and MacBook Pros, the latter of which feel as if they haven't been updated in centuries. Now there's word that a MacBook event is planned for October 14, ...READ»

Technology: What's Cooking at Apple?

When unfulfilled Apple rumors don't die, there's usually a good reason. Having moved on from the iPhone, the tech rumor mill is now churning up new whispers of a game-changing Apple product: an ultra-thin MacBook. Ultra-thin laptops ...READ»

What's the Deal With Apple's Non-Removable Batteries?

In an unexpected move on Monday, when everyone was looking at the new iPhones, Apple also tweaked its notebook lineup. Among the changes: The 13-inch MacBook Pro now has a non-removable battery. Why does Apple love to torture us so ...READ»

Is The New MacBook Green? Ask Greenpeace.

We know the drill by now: every few months Apple rolls out some new iPod model, seducing us to trash our still-shiny-perfectly-brand-new one. We tend to think of this as progressive design. However, these days progressive design must ...READ»

Big Awards for the Year's Best Industrial Design

The International Design Excellence Awards were announced yesterday, and represent the 150 best designs among over 1600 entries.READ»

Steve Jobs at Macworld: Reality Distortion Field in Full Effect

Few things, in today’s business world, are as cult-like as a Steve Jobs keynote address at Macworld. (Warren Buffett’s annual shareholder gathering might come close.) So when Jobs came onstage, unannounced, this morning at the ...READ»

Nokia Booklet 3G Hands On: Nice Netbook, but How Much?

The Nokia Booklet 3G has touched down on US soil. The cell phone manufacturer's first laptop is made of sturdy stuff and is mobile broadband/SIM-card friendly. I'd buy one if the price is right. But chances are it's not. I've got to ...READ»

New MacBook Pro Leaked?

The folks over at Engadget have gotten ahold of what might be a leaked photo of the new Apple [AAPL] MacBook Pro. Mac pundits everywhere have joined a chorus demanding the model's redesign, which is said to be long overdue. If this ...READ»

From Hip-Hop to Geek Wisdom

A couple of weeks ago I attended Advertising Age's The Idea Conference, the ad trade's respectable attempt to bring together a mash-up of interesting thinkers. The one day brain dump began with an exceptionally freestyle monologue by ...READ»

Why The 15-Inch MacBook Air Rumor Makes Sense

It's major rumor-month for Apple products, and the latest that's hitting the internets suggests that there's a 15-inch version of the super-skinny MacBook Air on the way. This rumor even gets a little credibility from its source--a ...READ»

Apple MacBook Release Official for October 14th

Not much to add to the already-reported rumors of new Apple [AAPL] MacBooks on their way in 5 days, but Apple has finally acknowledged the event by sending out an invitation to special media folks. The event will start at 10AM PST ...READ»

Apple Homogenizes its Lineup with More iMac, Mac Mini

Apple pulled the wraps off a suite of new hardware today--all upgrades to its desktop computing line, with both the iMac and Mac Mini getting some modernization. Although what Apple is doing might be better labeled ...READ»

• The Fast Company 50: #4 Apple

Does Android on an HP Netbook Signal Trouble For Microsoft?

Google's Android may soon move beyond the limiting confines of the G1 smartphone and onto a much roomier machine: the netbook. Hewlett Packard is experimenting with the OS in an attempt to gauge how useful it might be on those tiny ...READ»

Toshiba Announces Massive Notebook Hard Drives

This week Toshiba's [OTC:TOSBF] storage division announced the notebook industry's first 400GB hard disk, upping the ante in the increasing format war between traditional hard drives and solid state drives, which store their data on ...READ»

Want True Sustainability? Then Design to Seduce

Sustainable design is a hot topic. While most people applaud the idea of designers using ecofriendly materials, others insist that that's missing the point--that by designing for mass consumption, designers are still part of the ...READ»

Apple Adds a New Cat to the Pack

If you weren’t listening closely to the first couple of minutes during Steve Jobs’ keynote speech yesterday, you might have missed another significant product announcement: Snow Leopard OS X. Details were sparse from the Silicon ...READ»

Gropable Gadgets: Future Touchpad Controls Will Be Wrap-Around

The Nano Touch device currently being demoed by Microsoft research adds a wonderful twist to modern touchscreen tech: the back surface of the device is touch-sensitive too. Though this sounds clumsy at first, it's actually a rather ...READ»

Apple Creating Chip-Tech Brain-Tank, but Why?

When a big technology company begins gathering a specialist group of experts together, in some cases poaching them from key posts in other successful outfits, it's a strategic maneuver. In this case, it's the famously secretive ...READ»

Designer's Favorite Things

A great designer realizes the beauty in someone else's work. Here, Steve McCallion, creative director, Ziba Design and Clive Wilkinson, founder, Clive Wilkinson Architects, both share some of their favorites.READ»

MacWorld 2009 Rumor Round-Up

With the doors of the Moscone center in San Francisco soon to burst open upon a Jobs-less Macworld 2009, the Internets are predictably alive with rumors--some more believable, some less believable, some just stuffed with desperate ...READ»

Will Tech Buyers Ever Come Back?

Is the tech sector weaker than we think? Just last week, analysts were abuzz over buoying technology stocks: The tech-heavy Nasdaq hit 2,000 points on news that chip demand was once again rising. Philadelphia's Semiconductor Index, ...READ»

Design's New Hyperinteractive Audience

We've entered an age where designing for interaction means designing for distraction.READ»

• Brett Lovelady's ASTRO Design blog

Speed Test: iPhone 3G S Even Faster Than Apple Claims

Apple has made claims that the iPhone OS 3.0 yields significant performance gains on the 3G model, and that the new 3G S can accomplish the same tasks up to twice as fast as its predecessors. Anecdotally, the new 3G S definitely ...READ»