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Tag: personal computing

MacPad: Apple predicted to release a Mac OS X tablet by 2018

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 12:01 pmTuesday, November 24, 201526 Comments

Apple’s official position may be that we don’t need an OS X/iOS hybrid tablet

ZDNet reviews Apple’s iPad Pro: A genuine alternative to a laptop for business users

Friday, November 20, 2015 1:31 pmFriday, November 20, 20157 Comments

The iPad Pro delivers the performance of a pretty respectable laptop, and is more than capable of running Microsoft Office as well as more demanding graphics and video applications…

Dalrymple: ‘I don’t want an iPad to replace my Mac’

Thursday, November 19, 2015 7:07 pm35 Comments

There are a tremendous number of people out there that can use an iPad as their main computer…

iPad Pro: Apple’s most fully realized example yet of the future of computing

Saturday, November 14, 2015 10:07 am8 Comments

Put plainly, the A9X system-on-chip Apple packed into iPad Pro is a beast…

Why Apple’s new iPad Pro makes Mac users feel weird

Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:24 pmThursday, November 12, 201524 Comments

I’m typing this on a top-of-the-line 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display…

Analyst: Apple’s iPad Pro and its powerful A9X CPU pose threat to Intel

Thursday, November 12, 2015 1:29 pmThursday, November 12, 201517 Comments

Investment firm Cowen and Company has a bullish outlook for Apple’s new iPad Pro…

Apple’s A9X-powered iPad Pro offers Mac-like speed

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 4:55 pmWednesday, November 11, 201520 Comments

I’ve been asked several times to sum up what I think of the iPad Pro…

Wired reviews Apple’s iPad Pro: ‘The best tablet, and the best case for tablets, anyone’s ever made’

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 4:24 pmWednesday, November 11, 201513 Comments

Apple’s epic 12.9-inch iPad Pro is the best tablet, and the best case for tablets, anyone’s ever made….

Horace Dediu reviews Apple’s iPad Pro: Unlike anything we’ve ever seen before

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 3:28 pmWednesday, November 11, 20157 Comments

Watching Dediu toss around thousands of dollars of Apple gear, including the Apple Smart Keyboard for iPad Pro…

Ben Bajarin reviews Apple’s iPad Pro: ‘The start of something new’

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 2:55 pmWednesday, November 11, 20159 Comments

I realized quickly that the iPad Pro could easily replace my laptop for more than 90% of the things I need on a day to day basis…

Is Apple losing interest in the Mac and OS X?

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 11:30 am43 Comments

It would be nice to see some enhancements to OS X that range from restoring a few more lost capabilities from the Classic Mac OS to fixing odd interface choice…

Microsoft admits Windows 10 automatic spying cannot be stopped

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 8:27 amTuesday, November 3, 201523 Comments

How concerned should users be about Windows 10’s default data collection policies? Very…

No, Apple’s iPad hasn’t gone from massive to ‘meh’ in 5 short years

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:05 pmTuesday, January 27, 201516 Comments

After a record 26 million iPads sold at the beginning of 2014…

Apple’s iMac Retina 5K: Powerful proof of the personal computer renaissance

Monday, December 29, 2014 1:31 pm10 Comments

Apple is predicted to rake in about half of the PC industry’s profits…

Macintosh leapfrogs iPad to become Apple’s second biggest-selling product line

Monday, October 27, 2014 2:02 pmMonday, October 27, 201434 Comments

On the 30th anniversary of the first Macintosh, a 21% jump in unit sales…

Apple 1 computer sells for $905,000 at auction

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:58 pmWednesday, October 22, 201413 Comments

One of the few remaining examples of Apple Inc’s first pre-assembled computer…

The Mac is back: Why Apple just set an all-time Mac sales record

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:27 amWednesday, October 22, 201443 Comments

Apple’s Mac business, now 30 years old, just had its best three months in history…

Apple’s Mac a surprise hit in Q414 results; market share now highest since 1995

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:55 pmTuesday, October 21, 201430 Comments

In a remarkable story, Apple sold a million more Macs this quarter than…

Building a Hackintosh: Part 3

Monday, July 21, 2014 2:01 pmMonday, July 21, 20144 Comments

The motherboard you’ve chosen determines a lot of the settings and configuration…

Building a Hackintosh: Part 2

Tuesday, July 15, 2014 3:29 pm8 Comments

A non-Apple computer that runs OS X can be…

Building a Hackintosh

Monday, July 7, 2014 2:01 pmMonday, July 7, 201422 Comments

In theory, the only way to get an OS X computer…

Canalys: Apple continues reign as world’s #1 PC maker

Thursday, May 8, 2014 5:32 pmThursday, May 8, 201416 Comments

Apple continues to lead the global PC market…

How to replace your old computer with a new iPad

Saturday, February 8, 2014 6:09 pmMonday, March 2, 201534 Comments

As the personal computing era draws closer and closer to an end…

Canalys: Apple leads worldwide PC market with 19.5% share

Thursday, February 6, 2014 4:12 amSaturday, February 8, 201420 Comments

Apple remained the PC market leader in Q4, shipping 30.9 million units…

Stephen Fry: Apple’s Mac at 30

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 3:55 pm8 Comments

It was thirty years ago today that Sergeant Jobs taught the band to play…

What’s holding you back from making Apple’s iPad your main computing device?

Saturday, January 18, 2014 2:32 pm93 Comments

I’m very close to being able to go with the iPad as my main computing device…

Apple’s powerful new Mac Pro a good value; far from the most expensive high-end Mac or high-end PCs

Friday, December 20, 2013 11:29 amFriday, December 20, 201328 Comments

It appears that the six core configuration – for a base price of $3999 – is the sweet spot…

Ben Bajarin: Apple’s iPad Air truly a blank slate of opportunities for the future of computing

Friday, December 13, 2013 12:37 pm22 Comments

The best way to think about many of the tablets being sold today…

Apple’s iPad and Mac dominated Q213 Personal computer sales

Wednesday, August 7, 2013 5:02 pmWednesday, August 7, 201317 Comments

Apple sold more units during the year-ago period, but still took the #1 spot…

As sales of Windows PCs fade, Mac sales hold steady in April

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:42 am11 Comments

According to NPD, Mac sales for the month of April in North America…

World’s biggest computer maker: Apple Inc.

Friday, February 22, 2013 2:38 pm15 Comments

Its time to update the biggest computer-maker listing…

Using the new 128GB Apple iPad as my main computer – Day 1

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:22 am18 Comments

Over the past few months I have found myself using my mobile devices more and more…

Fujitsu President: Weak demand for Microsoft’s Windows 8 killing PC Sales

Friday, December 28, 2012 8:53 amFriday, December 28, 201241 Comments

U.S. retail sales of devices running Windows fell 21 percent from a year earlier…

Walter Isaacson: The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 12:33 pmTuesday, April 3, 201218 Comments

His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large…

Apple’s iPhone may foreshadow the future of personal computing

Monday, December 19, 2011 11:30 amMonday, December 19, 20117 Comments

A very small device that houses a powerful CPU, OS/custom UI and data files…

Steve Jobs’ best quotes ever

Friday, October 27, 2006 9:48 amWednesday, October 22, 201429 Comments

One of the great things about Steve Jobs is what comes out of his mouth…

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