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Holiday Gift Guide: Buying a Mac

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 16th, 2011)

The holiday season is fast approaching which means it's time to start thinking about your loved ones and the gifts they may want to receive. High on the list for some may be a new shiny Mac to replace their old, worn-out computer. It's an expensive gift and one that you'll want to research ...

On the Mac Pro's future

by Chris Rawson (Oct 31st, 2011)

The Mac Pro is a strange outlier among Apple's products. It's insanely powerful, but it's priced out of the reach of most mortals. It's by far Apple's most "traditional" computer; the Mac Pro is a tower you can crack open and customize quite easily, far different from its sealed-up cousins the ...

Apple Store now features social sharing

by Mike Schramm (Aug 17th, 2011)

Apparently "net issues" weren't the only reason the Apple Store was down this morning; MacRumors notes that social features have been added to the Mac Pro configuration page, allowing you to share any of the various Mac builds on Twitter or Facebook. I'm not especially convinced that this is ...

Apple granted touchscreen, voicemail, and several other patents

by Chris Rawson (Aug 9th, 2011)

Patently Apple reports that Apple has been granted almost 20 patents covering various software and hardware implementations. The site has singled out three of these patents as the most intriguing of the bunch. The first patent, Integrated Touch Screen, "relates to touch sensing circuitry ...

OS X Lion rumors: Do we want to believe 'em or not?

by Steven Sande (Jul 19th, 2011)

I don't know if you've noticed a trend, but at TUAW we've been trying to downplay a lot of the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion / MacBook Air refresh rumors that have been flooding a lot of other sites lately. The occasional one squeaks in, but for the most part we're trying to stay away from the daily "IT'S ...

Bare Feats finds iMacs compare to Mac Pros running Final Cut Pro X

by Steven Sande (Jul 11th, 2011)

Final Cut Pro X users might want consider an iMac instead of a Mac Pro, according to some recent benchmarks run by Bare Feats. The graphics and speed testing site recently tested FCP X on three different Macs to see which current model was able to tame the power-hungry app the best. The ...

Rumor: New Mac Pros and Mac minis in August, CNet says

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 19th, 2011)

CNet's Brian Tong announced via Twitter that Apple is preparing to debut new Mac Pros and Mac minis in August. Tong added that both models are expected to have Thunderbolt and Sandy Bridge processors, urging people to wait before buying new machines. As MacRumors points out, Tong was spot on ...

Low Mac Pro, Mac mini server supplies suggest pending refresh

by Chris Rawson (Jun 10th, 2011)

Supplies of Apple's Mac Pro and Mac mini server lines are reportedly constrained, indicating a refresh is likely in the near future. According to 9to5 Mac, a source indicates these two product lines should see updates within the next month or so. 9to5 Mac doesn't give any info on the current ...

Next-generation Mac Pro rumored to feature rack mount, stackable drives

by Steven Sande (Apr 21st, 2011)

If a rumor posted on 9 to 5 Mac has any validity, the Mac Pro may be the next member of the Apple family to receive an updated design. The top-of-the-line Mac Pro has been somewhat neglected in the design department, as the current design debuted with the Power Mac G5 in June of 2003. Since ...

Does Thunderbolt fortell the end of the line for the Mac Pro as we know it?

by Chris Ward (Apr 20th, 2011)

Xsan integrator Meta Media has an interesting series of posts on its Empowering Creativity blog about what it sees as the future -- or rather the lack of a future -- for Apple's Mac Pro line. The arrival of the Thunderbolt interface, Meta Media says, will allow Apple to return to its beloved ...

New MacBook Pro benchmarks show marked improvement

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 25th, 2011)

Primate Labs snagged the latest Geekbench 2 results for the new MacBook Pros and compared the benchmarks to previous generation models. Good news for those planning to grab a latest generation model. The results show a big jump in performance for the MacBook Pros with the new quad-core Sandy ...

TUAW's Holiday Gift Guide: Which Mac should you buy?

by Steven Sande (Dec 6th, 2010)

Welcome to the TUAW Holiday Gift Guide! We've sorted the treasure from the junk and are serving up suggestions to make your holiday gift-giving a little easier. When you're an alpha Mac geek, you can expect a common Christmas greeting from friends and relatives each and every year. It goes ...

NVIDIA offers Fermi-packing Quadro 4000 to the Mac Pro user

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 18th, 2010)

In case you missed it, a couple days ago NVIDIA outed the Fermi Quadro 4000 Mac Edition video card for Mac Pro users. The card packs a punch with 256 CUDA cores, a 256-bit memory interface and 2GBs of memory (I remember the day I got excited by a video card with 16MBs of memory, though, sorting out ...

Mac Pro server config added to product lineup

by Dave Caolo (Nov 5th, 2010)

Shortly after announcing the end of the Xserve, Apple has added Mac Pro server configuration in its place. The new machine features a single 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Xeon 'Nehalem' processor, 8GB (4 x 2GB) of DDR3 ECC SDRAM, a pair of 1TB (7200RPM) hard drives, one 18x SuperDrive and ATI's Radeon HD ...

LaCie offers USB 3.0 to Mac users

by Dave Caolo (Nov 4th, 2010)

Cupertino may not be ready to offer us USB 3.0 quite yet, but LaCie is. The company has announced the availability of both the USB 3.0 PCI Express Card and the USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 with Mac compatibility. To get things working, just install the free driver and pop in your card of choice. You'll ...