Ultraportable Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The case of the missing resolution independence

by Mike Schramm (Nov 1st, 2007)

What the heck happened to resolution independence? In Gruber's review of the Powerbook a few years ago, he trumpeted the coming of a feature long evading the Mac faithful, a resolution independent interface. Others at the time expected the same thing to appear in Leopard: UI elements that were ...

Rumor: Mac mini turns Nano in late October

by Mike Schramm (Oct 4th, 2007)

I've had this plan ever since the mini almost died earlier this year, and I'm sticking to it: as soon as I can buy a Mac mini with Leopard on it, I'll do so. And no one's going to stop me-- except maybe Jobs himself. Mac OS Rumors reports that they've heard that as of October's end, the mini is ...

Apple files patent for collapsible ports

by Mike Schramm (Aug 16th, 2007)

Apple Insider is reporting that Apple has filed a patent for collapsible ports, supposedly for use inside a coming ultraportable computer. I didn't quite get the idea at first (because supposedly the ports collapse in order to give the innards more room to spread out), but apparently the ports ...

The iPod and the "product transition"

by Mike Schramm (Jul 27th, 2007)

Perhaps the most interesting and mysterious two words heard yesterday during Apple's big conference call were "product transition." The biggest surprise of the call was that Apple was setting its profit guidance much lower than expected, and the two big causes they gave for doing that were "higher ...