'Mac' Pictures + News
“Demand for Apple’s laptops appeared to fade following the holiday shopping season, according to a survey of 3,476 consumers by research firm ChangeWave. In a blog post, ChangeWave writes that a survey taken January 5-12 found sagging overall PC demand – and asserts that Apple ‘will be especially hard hit this quarter by the continued economic downturn.’” [Link]
“CNBC and others are reporting that Apple has issued a statement saying that Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence due to health reasons.” [Link]
New 17″ Macbook Pro picture
Phil Schiller, the senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing for Apple Inc. revealed the brand new 17″ Macbook Pro today at Macworld 2009 in San Francisco. Schiller said the 17″ Macbook Pro is “the world’s lightest and thinnest 17 inch notebook”. Apple claims that the battery life is 8 hours. The new 17″ Macbook Pro will cost $2799.
17″ Macbook Pro stats:
- .98 inches thin
- 6.6 pounds
- 17-inch LED backlit display
- 1920×1200 resolution
- Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHz Dual Core
- 6MB L2 Cache
- 8GB RAM memory
- Glass trackpad
“The NY Times dug up some of Dell’s trademarks and they included “Adamo” and “Adamo by Dell.” Sounds pretty posh, doesn’t it? We’re not sure if it is going to be just one computer or a whole line of desktops and notebooks. Rumor has it that one of the upcoming models might be even thinner than the MacBook Air” [Link]
“Apple’s latest update to its Leopard operating system, OS X 10.5.6, appears to be creating more problems than it’s fixing on users’ Macs. A day after the software was released via Apple’s download service, users flooded the company’s online support forum with hundreds of complaints about the upgrade. Most centered around OS freezes and so-called “Blue Screens of Death.” ” [Link]
Mac Mini picture
“Apple will launch an upgrade to its low-end desktop, the Mac Mini, at January’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco, according to an Apple corporate employee who contacted Wired.com. The source, who wished to remain anonymous (to keep his job), could not disclose details about the Mac Mini other than its upcoming announcement at Macworld Expo, which begins Jan. 5. ” [Link]
John Hodgman and Justin Long in Apple Mac ads
“Turns out that phase two of the ‘I’m a PC ‘ advertising counterattack against Apple was… created on a Mac. … The offending evidence was metadata found in the images of the PC user featured on the ‘I’m a PC’ web site. The data exposed the fact that the images were produced using Macs running Adobe Creative Suite 3.” [Link]
