Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Apple wins in customer satisfaction
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple takes a ten-point lead on rivals in annual US customer satisfaction survey - can competing firms catch-up?
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
IDF: Apple Xserve set to gain six appeal?
Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld
"The big cache and six cores will give customers a nice bump in performance," says senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger. "We're quite excited about it."
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Mac clone maker Psystar: We're still in business
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
'We're still here' says Psystar of its unauthorised Mac clone project, but legal proceedings are inching ever closer to commencement in the case
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
IDF: Intel hint suggests 160GB MacBook Air
Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld
Intel reveals 160GB flash-based solid state drive for laptops, production expected for Q4 - will Apple use these drives in its future products?
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Freecom releases "world's smallest 2.5in hard drive"
Erick Faulkner
Freecom's Mobile Drive XXS puts a custom Samsung 2.5in hard drive in a rubberised enclosure. The result is a different external hard drive that is cheap and small.
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
New Get a Mac ads in US
Macworld staff
Pizza Box, Throne, and Calming Teas air at www.apple.com
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Apple offers MobileMe users another free 60 days
Peter Cohen, Macworld.com
Another olive branch is handed out to MobieMe users, as Apple offers another free extension and apology.
Monday, 18 August 2008
Intel releases draft USB 3.0 spec
Oliver Garnham, PC Advisor
Transfer speeds of up to 4.8Gbps will enable new USB format to transfer data at 10 times the speed of USB 2.0.
Friday, 15 August 2008
10 years of the iMac
Benj Edwards
Apple's classic iMac computer shipped ten years ago today. We celebrate Apple’s all-in-one desktop with eight ways in which the iMac made the world a better place.
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Future Mac laptop range to sport SSD drives?
Jonny Evans
Computerworld speculates Apple may have a plan to offer flash drives as an add-on option across its MacBook and MacBook Pro range - MultiTouch, too, report hints.
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
$196m should cover costs of bad graphics chips, Nvidia says
Sumner Lemon
Nvidia begins to act to address widely-reported problems withh some of its graphics chips, puts aside almost $200 million to deal with consequences of the problem.
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Apple Australian marketshare up 52% - analysis
Jonny Evans
Apple sees sales surge in Australia as growth exceeds industry average and marketshare exceeds 5 per cent in the country.
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
New iPod touch and MacBooks coming soon, analysts say
Agam Shah
Apple in September will announce a new iPod Touch and a redesigned MacBook, analysts said on Monday.
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Apple's MobileMe mail, Google's Gmail go dark
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Will MobileMe ever come up to speed? Latest email outage hits paying users, while Gmail users experience a two hour blip
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Freecom ships external DVD-RW recorder for Macs
Jonny Evans
The device can burn up to 8.5GB of data, images or multi-media files, looks stylish and produces professional looking CD’s and DVD’s.
Monday, 11 August 2008
Alleged Nvidia problem grips some MacBook Pros
Jonny Evans
Is there a fault in some Nvidia chips as used in the MacBook Pro? Some appear to think so as MacBook Pro video outputs fail...
Monday, 11 August 2008
Nehalem desktops to be called Core i7
Sumner Lemon
Within the Nehalem family, chips designed for different types of computers will have individual sub-brands, such as the i7 brand that will be attached to the high-end desktop chips, called Core i7.
Monday, 11 August 2008
Intel Nehalem laptops appearing next year
Agam Shah
Packing between two and eight processors cores, the first Nehalem chips will include QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) technology, which integrates a memory controller and provides a faster pipe for the CPU to communicate with system components like a graphics card and other chips.
Monday, 11 August 2008
Gartner warns of "widespread slowdown" in electronics sector
Dan Nystedt
'As the economic cycle unfolds it seems inconceivable that we will not see a more significant reduction in spending on electronics, even in the most resilient of industry sectors and regional markets,' Gartner warns
Monday, 11 August 2008
Apple's US education growth story
Jim Dalrymple, Macworld US
84 per cent of US students who plan to purchase a computer in the next 12 months will buy a notebook. Among that group of students, 43 per cent plan to buy a Mac.












