Mac OS X

Mac OS X Lion Now Available To Devs As Gold Master

July 1

As in software engineering, any software that has reached “Gold” or “Gold Master” status means that it is ready for primetime, and all or any bugs have been squashed (until more are inevitably found). Well, if you’re waiting for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion later this month when it launches on the Mac App Store for $29, then you’ll be happy to know that some of your favorite applications will probably be taking advantage of the new OS X by the time it launches.

Mac OS X Lion Launches Only On Mac App Store, For $29 In July

June 6

It’s coming. And is 4GB in size. The new Mac OS X Lion is coming to the Mac App Store for $29 in July and is 4GB in size. New features include multiouch gestures via the trackpads of Macs, auto-saving, fullscreen additions to apps, Mission Control, which allows you to completely have control of what is going on in your Mac at that very moment, AirDrop (an encrypted, peer-to-peer, WiFi-based file sharing network), a new Mail app and more than 250 features. Via: Apple

Apple Confirms iCloud, iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion, And Steve Jobs At The Grand WWDC 2011

May 31

It’s going to be crazy and amazing. In a short press release, seen below, Apple confirmed iCloud as their “upcoming cloud services offering”. Also mentioned is iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion, the latter being the only software that has been demoed to the press and played with by developers. Also is the appearance of Steve Jobs, perhaps meaning that his health is in a better state. Who can’t wait for the World Wide Developers Conference 2011? This guy. And I’ll be covering everything that comes out of there on the morning of Monday, June 6th. Should be interesting.
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Macbook Air 11.6-inch Review

March 31

It’s an Apple product, folks. If you’re a hater of the most close-minded and close-sourced manufacturer in the industry, read something else on LaptopMemo. If you’ve realized that Apple has been leading the market in design and innovation for mobile products (read: iPad and iPhone), then continue reading, because you’re smart enough to see things as they truly are. Moving on.

The New Macbook Pros: Thunderbolt, Quad-Core, AMD Graphics And More

February 24

Below is a list of the new Macbook Pros, debuted on Steve Jobs’ birthday. The design hasn’t changed a bit, except the internals. The main revisions are new processors, graphics, FaceTime HD, and a Thunderbolt port, used for 10 gigabytes per second file transfers (download and upload), which utterly destroys Firewire and USB. Prices range from $1,199 for the 13-inch model and up to $2499 for a 17-inch quad-core Core i7, clocked at 2.2GHz.

MC700LL/A: 13.3-inch display, 2.3GHz dual-core Core i5, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB HD, Intel HD Graphics 3000 — $1,199
MC724LL/A: 13.3-inch display, 2.7GHz dual-core Core i5, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB HD, Intel HD Graphics 3000 — $1,499
MC721LL/A: 15.4-inch display (1440×900), 2.0GHz quad-core Core i7, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB HD, AMD Radeon HD 6490M — $1,799
MC723LL/A: 15.4-inch display (1440×900), 2.2GHz quad-core Core i7, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 750GB HD, AMD Radeon HD 6750M — $2,199
MC725LL/A: 17-inch display (1920×1200), 2.2GHz quad-core Core i7, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 750GB HD, dual graphics processors with automatic switching (Intel HD Graphics 3000 and AMD Radeon HD 6750M) — $2,499

Oh, and they’re all available for purchase, right now. Press release is always after the line-break, of course. Via: Apple

Intel May Have Leaked Something: The New Macbook Pro

February 16

This is so beautiful. You could cry (an exaggeration). It looks like in a little advert Intel may have spilled the beans on the new Macbook Pros, something of which they have a fantastic reputation for. Even the Mac OS X UI looks better even though it hasn’t changed a bit. Via: 9to5Mac

Mac App Store Hits 1 Million Downloads in 24 Hours — Success.

January 7

Somewhere, somehow, Apple execs and Steve Jobs are dancing a wild jig on the new sales report from the Mac App Store — 1 million downloads in 24 hours. Not bad, Cupertino. According to Steve in a statement, “We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,” and that “developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is.” This only comes to show that devs make or break a platform, both big and small. Full PR after the you-know-where.

Apple’s Mac App Store is now open for business

January 6

Got a Mac running Snow Leopard? Well, now there’s an App Store for it, and it opens with over 1,000 apps. But moving on, Apple’s own apps are also available for download, like iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand ($14.99 each) to Pages, Keynote and Numbers ($19.99 each), and Aperture 3 being available for $79.99. Also, the hit Twitter client (and one of the best of all time), Tweetie 2 (now just Twitter) has re-launched for Mac, and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro is also present, further confirming the obvious fact that app developers can submit their apps to the store for approval, much like the iOS App Store, with the same strict rules (or even stricter).

But in the meantime, if you find an update for Snow Leopard, then download it, install it, and get the Mac App Store running along pleasantly, since it’s included in the software update. Via: Apple PR