The first teardown of an iPad Mini showed few surprises, but the team that took apart Apple's new smaller tablet said it was "extremely difficult" for do-it-yourselfers to repair. iFixit.com, which regularly rips apart devices sold by ...
Macworld - With build-to-order options, the new Mac mini makes a giant leap in performance. The $799 standard configuration Mac mini comes with a 2.3GHz quad-core Core i7 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 5400-rpm 1TB hard drive. We customized ...
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Computerworld - Apple's rumored November launch of a smaller, less-expensive iPad will put the company in a tight spot -- tighter than usual -- if it's not able to build up and maintain adequate supplies through the holiday season, analysts ...
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Computerworld - Apple will again offer discounts this week on "Black Friday," the mega shopping day after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. A notice today on Apple's online store touted the one-day event, which is to start Friday, Nov. ...
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Macworld - The My Passport Edge for Mac is the newest member of Western Digitals portable hard drive family. Its not wildly different from previous My Passport models, but the Edge does have USB 3.0 connectivity, and has slimmed down to an ...
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iPhone 5 supplies continued to improve this week as Apple reduced the wait time for delivery to "2 weeks" on its online store. The status change comes a bit more than a week after Apple shortened the shipping delay to "2-3 weeks" from the ...
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Apple today cut Mac laptop prices up to 10% and iPad prices as much as 9% during its typically tightfisted one-day "Black Friday" deals. But some resellers again offered more aggressive discounts. Apple's sale reduced Mac laptop prices ...
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Computerworld - Windows 7 may be the better choice as a PC operating system on new systems than the just-released Windows 8, Consumer Reports magazine said this week. "Windows 7 generally received favorable reviews when it was released," ...
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About 100 people waited outside Boston's Microsoft Store Friday to buy the company's new Surface tablet, which runs a new version of Windows. Unlike previous versions of the operating system, Windows RT runs on an ARM processor, typically ...
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The latest release of Google's Chrome browser can render webpages with the resolution of Apple's Retina display, the company said on Tuesday, making good on a commitment it made several weeks ago. This means that users of 15-inch MacBook ...
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Macworld - chas one keyboard, one mouse, and multiple Macs. And that started him wondering. He writes: On my desk I have an iMac as well as a MacBook Pro, both of which I use throughout the day. I control the iMac with a wireless keyboard ...
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Computerworld - Western Digital today announced what it is calling its smallest external hard disk drive, the 500GB My Passport Edge, for both Macs and PCs. The new drives are 4.34 inches long by 3.2-inches wide and .5-inches thick. The ...
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In a rare admission of error, Apple said Friday that it's back in EPEAT, the environmental standards group for electronics products that it withdrew from earlier this week. "We've recently heard from many loyal Apple customers who were ...
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Dell is expanding the range of laptops with Linux, with its new Precision mobile workstations being offered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 OS as an option. The company announced two models, the Precision M4700, which has a 15.6-inch ...
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WaterField Designs, a leading San Francisco manufacturer of custom-fitted laptop sleeves, bags and cases for digital gear, announces a bevy of cases and bags sized to fit Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. SAN ...
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