Category: Apple
Time Coming to iPad
‘Unfixable’
Christina Bonnington at Wired:
Those who throw down more than two grand for a new MacBook Pro with Retina Display will have a hell of a time trying to fix their notebook should anything go amiss. iFixit’s latest teardown reveals the newest member of the MacBook Pro line is the “least-repairable laptop” the team has ever had to tear apart.
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So, if indeed you do splurge, you’ll want to consider your future computing needs. And maybe store it in a museum-quality vault when it’s not being used.
On AppleWorks Support Documents
AppleWorks has been discontinued and is no longer available for purchase. There will be no further software updates.
While AppleWorks might be gone, there are lots of support documents still available for reading.
via @agiletortoise
The WSJ Takes Stupid Pills
iFixit Tears Down Retina MacBook Pro
‘Later Next Year’
So, Where’s the MacBook Air With a Retina Display?
While Apple announced lots of goodies yesterday, the most impressive hardware news is the MacBook Pro with Retina display.
The machine is impressive. It’s clearly the result of taking a MacBook Pro and making it more Air-like. It’s thin (.71 inches), fast (thanks to the SSD) and has no optical drive.
Of course, the headlining features is the Retina display. Clocking in at 2880x1800 at 220 DPI, the 15.4 inch panel seems impossibly sharp.
On That Crappy Mac Pro Update
After two years, the Mac Pro was “updated” today, sort of: now we can choose slightly faster two-year-old CPUs at the top end, and the other two-year-old CPU options are cheaper now.
That’s about it.
No Xeon E5 CPUs, no USB 3, no Thunderbolt. They’re even shipping the same two-year-old graphics cards. Same motherboard, slightly different CPU options from 2010. That’s it.
If there were doubts before, there shouldn’t be now — the Mac Pro is dying. With such a lackluster update, its clear that Apple doesn’t care about the machine.
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Aperture, iPhoto Updated
Touching on two very important photo editing updates today, Apple has released Aperture 3.3 and iPhoto 9.3, specifically targeting the MacBook Pro with Retina display. In this update, Aperture and iPhoto will now share the same libraries — this means that you can import images into iPhoto from your iPhone 4S, then edit specific images later in Aperture without having to import or duplicate images. The unified library should make life much easier for photographers wanting to get the most out of their images.
The Verge Goes Hands-On With the New MacBook Pro
Interestingly, the new machine sports a new set of vents down its sides. But even the vents look good.