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Riot Games shutting down League of Legends for Mac

by Mike Schramm (Sep 4th, 2011)

Bad news for League of Legends gamers on the Mac -- after years of teasing about a Mac client for the popular free-to-play title (I even saw it running way back when), Riot has decided to pull the plug on plans to make the game Mac compatible. There has been a beta client floating around for ...

Apple expands recycling options for old computers, mobile devices

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 9th, 2011)

Apple announced today that is is expanding and updating its Reuse and Recycling Program. The updated service allows anyone to send their old computers and monitors to Apple to be recycled for free -- regardless of brand. Previously Apple offered free recycling of old Macs and PCs for free for ...

The iPad's incredible effect on the PC industry is only beginning

by Chris Rawson (Jul 27th, 2011)

We already know based on Apple's latest quarterly earnings report that the iPad is pretty much eating the PC industry's lunch. Writing for Forbes, Bob Evans points out that as impressive as the iPad's effect on the industry has been thus far, we've only begun to see the sea change Apple's ...

Temkin Group study finds satisfied Mac users

by Mike Schramm (Jul 5th, 2011)

Apple has topped the charts in another customer satisfaction survey, this time from the Temkin Group. That company studied 842 recent PC buyers, and found that Apple won across all of five categories versus PC brands like Dell and HP. From information pre-purchase to setup, customer service ...

More app sales for Mac and iOS over the Independence Day weekend

by Mike Schramm (Jul 1st, 2011)

July 4th is the weekend for fireworks, BBQs, and good times in the United States of America -- not to mention some excellent app sales. Here's a few more: MacGameStore has a big Independence Day sales weekend going on, featuring Mac versions of Civ IV for $14.95, Spore for $9.99, and Call ...

Looking back at Apple's Cube, ten years later

by Mike Schramm (Jun 30th, 2011)

The Register has an excellent writeup posted with a look back at Apple's Power Mac G4 Cube (affectionately referred to as "The Cube"), which was released to the public 'suspended' from production 10 years ago this coming weekend. At the time, back in 2001, the Cube drew a lot of jeers, ...

Consumer PC sales growth declines for first time ever: iPad the culprit?

by Michael Grothaus (May 29th, 2011)

Business Insider has posted a chart that tracks consumer PC growth from June of 2007 to March of 2011. According to the chart consumer PC sales have grown by at least 10 percent every quarter, until December 2010 when it remained flat. In the quarter ending March 2011, consumer PC sales ...

Apple helping to shape Intel's future

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 19th, 2011)

Intel Senior Vice president Tom Kilroy revealed that Intel is working closely with Apple on future products. This relationship is so cozy that Kilroy claims Apple even "helps shape our roadmap." Apple is an attractive customer for Intel as the Cupertino company is often regarded as ...

Official Minecraft app, Final Fantasy 3 coming to iPhone and iPad

by Mike Schramm (Feb 21st, 2011)

Two pieces of good news for iOS gamers. First up, we've seen an unofficial Minecraft app appear (and disappear) on the App Store before, but it looks like an official client is coming. Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson says that an official iOS client for the popular sandbox game will be out ...

Macworld Expo 2011: SuperSync sticks with what it knows

by Mike Schramm (Feb 1st, 2011)

SuperSync had a nice booth at last week's Macworld Expo 2011 conference. In addition to a demo of the software on our livestream, we also chatted with the developer about how SuperSync (which allows you to share and view multiple iTunes libraries across PCs and platforms) was doing lately. The most ...

Boxee demonstrated on iPad at CES 2011

by Mike Schramm (Jan 8th, 2011)

As soon as we heard that Boxee was demoing their iPad version at this year's CES conference, we had to hunt them down and see it. We found them over at Iomega's booth (stay tuned for a writeup of an Iomega product designed to help iPhone backups as well), and asked to see the app. It's about what ...

OnLive iPad app now available, but doesn't support gameplay streaming yet

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2010)

OnLive has finally released an iPad app called OnLive Viewer -- but it probably doesn't do what you want it to quite yet. The cloud gaming service OnLive has been making a name for itself since it went online recently, by streaming live gameplay out to Macs, PCs and the company's official console ...

Ed Bott's side-by-side Mac and PC experiment

by David Quilty (Nov 16th, 2010)

ZDNet's Microsoft reporter Ed Bott is switching to a Mac. It's not forever and not in the way that you may be thinking, but for the time being he has decided to get serious about a side-by-side Mac and PC comparison he started over a year ago. Using a Mac mini and an HP Pavilion Elite desktop ...

DOS emulator for iOS released, runs Windows 3.0

by Mike Schramm (Oct 26th, 2010)

This seems like the kind of thing that Apple wouldn't want on the App Store (and indeed, it may soon disappear when they figure it out), but then again, after the relaxing of the rules, maybe they're OK with this one. Touch Arcade has discovered iDOS on the App Store -- it's a DOSbox-based disk ...

Report: Apple to make significant enterprise gains in 2011

by Mike Schramm (Oct 20th, 2010)

Despite Apple's insistence that it is a mobile device company, it turns out that the Mac category is far from done growing. A new study from the Enterprise Desktop Alliance says that 2011 is set to be a huge year for Mac on the enterprise level, with reportedly 25 percent of all new systems in that ...