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Apple Releases Performance Update, Fixes Hard Drive Stalls

Written on October 15, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 9 people have commented

Apple has released what it calls “Performance Update 1.0,” an update to its Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard) operating systems for selected iMacs and MacBooks.
As Apple describes it — in typically brief fashion — in its Support pages, ”This update addresses intermittent hard drive related pauses reported by a small number of [...]

PSP Minis Will Be Like iPhone Apps, Only Neutered

Written on September 17, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 2 people have commented

When I first heard that some of the first PSP Minis out the gate would be ported iPhone apps, I admittedly got a little bit excited imagining the competitive power of iPhone games on a platform with actual physical hardware controls. Turns out I should’ve reserved judgment.
First, as you may have seen, Minis will be [...]

iPhone Apps Set to Appear as Downloadable PSP “Minis”

Written on August 18, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 5 people have commented

Those of us interested in the gaming community, as well as in all things Apple, are probably aware that Sony is set to introduce the PSPgo, a UMD-less follow-up to its PlayStation Portable handheld gaming device. The PSPgo will rely on downloadable, rather than disc or cartridge-based media, like a certain phone/media player from our [...]

Suit Alleges Apple in Bed With the Mafia

Written on July 20, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 7 people have commented

In a bizarre story over at Ars Technica that seems like the plot of a terrible mafioso movie, a man named Gregory McKenna is claiming that Apple knowingly colluded with the Mafia (and various governmental agencies) to help them threaten him with death via his iPod mini. According to McKenna, it is apparently fairly standard [...]

Verizon Buzz Sparks Rumors of Two New Apple Products

Written on April 28, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 7 people have commented

The Internet tubes have been awash with rumors of Apple and Verizon talks targeting a working relationship in 2010. While Verizon CEO Lowell McAdams has confirmed that they have talked to people at Apple, he’s otherwise not giving up any details about the discussions. BusinessWeek, however, who conducted the interview with McAdams, have found other [...]

MacBook mini: Sorry Apple Fans, This Is Not Real

Written on March 30, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 13 people have commented

In case you’ve seen the most recent rumors about an Apple netbook currently circulating, which got their start at 9to5mac.com (whose server load problems seem to indicate that a lot of you have probably already seen this or are trying to as we speak), let me crush your hopes before they get too high: These [...]

Minis and minis by Apple and Others

Written on March 19, 2009 by Charles Moore and 13 people have commented

I’m a fan of automobile-computer analogies, and Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu came up with a dandy in a research note last week, noting that “sources” in Apple’s distribution channels are seeing a “stronger-than-expected reception” to new Mac desktop computers, especially the Mac minis announced a couple of weeks ago. “To us,” Wu wrote, “the [...]

Mini DisplayPort Could Become Standard

Written on January 15, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 4 people have commented

DisplayPort got a big boost as a video connection standard when Apple decided to use it across its entire notebook line.
Of course, being Apple, they couldn’t use it as is, and instead introduced the Mini DisplayPort version, which was more compact, and, sadly, would also require special adapters to be purchased by MacBook owners. Now [...]