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Apple sued over all touch-based products

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 23rd, 2012)

FlatWorld, a Pennsylvania company, is suing Apple for patent infringement in California's Northern District Court in San Francisco, according to a report in Patently Apple. The company owns Patent RE43,318 which describes "a testing tool with a touch screen programmed to allow children to ...

Andy Ihnatko on the iPad as his main mobile computer

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 19th, 2012)

Andy Ihnatko wrote an article for Macworld UK in which he talks about living in a post-PC world with the iPad as his main computing device. He discusses how the iPad has changed from a content consumption to a content creation device, thanks to some bold developers willing to push the iPad to ...

Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: AirPro Edition!

by Kelly Guimont (Apr 15th, 2012)

Well well well, Sunday. It's that time again, Talkshoe time! It's also time for some nice new hardware speculation live from my house, and we'll talk a little bit about some real news this week as well, such as a preview of NAB and a quick episode of Where's Tim? Kelly hosting the show means ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Did my wife just get a free upgrade?

by Erica Sadun (Apr 5th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, So my wife's 11-inch MacBook Air went into an Apple Store to get its screen replaced because it cracked. It's got a core i5 1,6ghz processor in it... Or at least it did! We've just got it back home and I clicked on "About this Mac" out of habit and it's reported that it's got ...

Intel website leaks full Ivy Bridge lineup

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 2nd, 2012)

Intel apparently slipped and briefly posted a Spring product list that outed 17 desktop chips and 11 notebook chips. Many of these chips were listed in an earlier leak and could land in Mac and PC hardware this year. The PDF document was pulled from Intel's website, but not before the list was ...

2011 Macs get EFI Firmware Update

by Steven Sande (Feb 23rd, 2012)

Have a 2011 Mac mini, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and iMac? If Software Update hasn't yet told you about it, there's an EFI Firmware Update available that you might want to install. According to the release notes, "This update improves the reliability of booting from the network, addresses an issue ...

Happy Owl Studio's beautiful Apple accessories

by Steven Sande (Feb 14th, 2012)

In early January, TUAW ran a story about Apple accessory manufacturer Happy Owl Studio. The company, now based in Golden, Colorado, makes some of the finest Apple accessories I have had the pleasure to review. I had a nice meeting with Happy Owl CEO Devon Read (right, above) and Chief Design ...

Apple forcing Pegatron to stop production of MacBook Air lookalike Zenbook

by Steven Sande (Feb 13th, 2012)

Sometimes having a manufacturing relationship with Apple can have unexpected repercussions. Asia-based Pegatron, which makes iPhones for Apple at this time, is reportedly being asked to cease production of Ultrabook laptops for Asus or face the consequences of losing orders from Apple. Ultrabooks ...

Apple now offering education model 13-inch MacBook Air for $999

by Chris Rawson (Feb 10th, 2012)

Almost immediately after discontinuing the white plastic MacBook once and for all, Apple has replaced it with a MacBook Air designed for educational sales. The 13-inch model costs the same US$999 as the MacBook it replaces. This 13-inch MacBook Air, which will only be sold to educational ...

Daily Update for February 10, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 10th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Rumor: MacBook Pro line getting revamped with MacBook Air style designs

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2012)

There's rumors of a shakeup going around in Apple's laptop lines. AppleInsider claims, according to "people familiar with Apple's roadmap" (cute -- it's Friday, so we'll let that through), that Apple is aiming to completely revamp its notebook lines sometime this year, basically making the MacBook ...

Daily Update for February 7, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 7th, 2012)

Apple intern thesis bears on porting Darwin to ARMv5 chips

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 7th, 2012)

Two years ago, Tristan Schaap joined Apple's Platform Technologies Group as an intern. During his 12-week stint with the Core OS division, he worked on a project to get a piece of Mac OS X running on an ARM processor, says a report by iMore. Most people were not aware of this project until ...

Tom Bihn Cadet laptop / iPad bag organizes your belongings in style

by Steven Sande (Jan 16th, 2012)

Seattle-based Tom Bihn has been creating impressive travel bags since 1972, and I've had the pleasure of using and reviewing some of their laptop bags for TUAW over the past few years. In response to advent of smaller MacBook models and the iPad, the company recently unveiled the new Cadet ...

The MacBook Air turns four years old today

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 15th, 2012)

Four years ago today, Apple introduced the MacBook Air, then the world's thinnest notebook. It was Steve Jobs's last Macworld appearance and the next to last Macworld keynote for Apple. The presentation is a classic Steve Jobs performance. The keynote has his usual smooth delivery, a genuine ...