Year in review: Apple buffs up the Mac
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The iPod shrank and iTunes dabbled in movies, but the story of 2006 was a new motto for the Mac lineup: Intel inside.
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After putting Leopard through its paces, Dean Takahashi (San Jose Mercury News) finds it is aptly namedââItâs fast and sleekââand concludes that the latest version of Mac OS X âgives Apple [an] advantage over Microsoft.â It offers âmore than 300 new features, making it the biggest upgrade in a long time,â and âa lot of the features allow you to do things more quickly and more easily.â That includes iChat, which, he says, âgot a good makeover. Besides doing video chats with the built-in Webcams on Macs, you can now use them to share any kind of file with the person youâre chatting with. You can also take over that friendâs desktop in case youâre diagnosing the machine from afar.â
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Apple Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profits jumped 67 percent and easily beat Wall Street expectations, capping a record-breaking year that saw unprecedented momentum in its Mac business, ceaseless consumer interest in its iPod players and a successful introduction of its newest endeavor, the iPhone.
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The most powerful Macs were upgraded Tuesday with new quad-core chips from Intel and tons of configuration options.
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Mac OS X Leopard is a sweeping update with so many new features that it's hard to keep them all in perspective. What is clear, however, is that it's a solid upgrade.&lt;br /&gt;
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Apple Computer Inc. has improved the services offered to subscribers of .Mac, including an increase in the amount of online data storage to 250MB.
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The latest incarnation of Apple's iMac all-in-one desktop computer sports a new look and a beefy G5 processor. Computerworld Online News Editor Ken Mingis snagged one and offers his first take on the latest Mac.
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What will Apple do at Macworld this year to top last year's iPhone hoopla? Here are our best guesses.
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Musings about what might Apple announce at Macworld in January.
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DENVER (Billboard) - While Apple did not introduce any  significant iPhone upgrades at its annual Macworld convention,  which ran January 14-18 in San Francisco, the iconic device  still made waves.
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While the improvements to Mac OS X Leopard desktop are not expected to be revolutionary, the enhancements to Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server are impressive.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit jumped 67 percent and easily beat Wall Street expectations, capping a record-breaking year that saw unprecedented momentum in its Mac business, ceaseless consumer interest in its iPod players, and a successful introduction of its newest endeavor, the iPhone.
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WWDC 2007 - At its annual Worldwide Developer Conference Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs provided the final look at Mac OS X 10.5, code-named "Leopard," before the new operating system ships in October. He demoed 10 out of what he says are 300 new features.
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From gold-plated hard drives to eye-popping Google demos, the exhibitor floor at Macworld 2008 is crammed with goodies -- and there are plenty of Mac users elbowing each other for a look at the latest. Wired's continuing coverage of the conference brings you the highlights from the show floor.
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Apple Computer Inc.  shares jumped as much as 16 percent on Monday, to their highest level in more than 4 years, after a Wall Street analyst nearly doubled his price target on the stock.
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âWith Leopard, Appleâs operating system widens its lead aesthetically and technologically,â states Ed Baig . Baig âmigrated to Leopardâ from Tiger âwithout pain on a MacBook laptop and my own iMac desktop; thereâs mercifully none of the software driver and other hassles associated with a Windows operating system upgrade.â Calling Leopard âone cool cat,â Baig praises Time Machine with its automatic backup and effortless file retrieval; the new videoconferencing features in iChat Theater; stationery, notes and To Do options in Mail; Cover Flow, Spaces, Stacks, and the ability to âhighlight and copy any portion of a Web page inside the Safari browser and turn it into a live Dashboard widget.â
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TechWeb - The Mac faithful are hoping that Steve Jobs can somehow top last year's blockbuster announcement of the iPhone.