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OS X 10.9 to add a number of new power-user features
With all the attention on iOS 7 these days, you may have forgotten that Apple is still working on the next iteration of OS X. We haven’t heard much regarding the details of OS X 10.9, until now. 9to5Mac writes that the update is internally codenamed “Cabernet” and will have a number of integrated power-user […]
Continue reading...OS X Mountain Lion overtakes OS X Lion in web traffic
Monday, January 14, 2013
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As Windows 8 sales figures continue to disappoint, the same can’t be said for Apple’s venerable succession of OS X releases. With each new OS X release, more and more folks are upgrading with greater frequency. And with consumers able to upgrade directly via the Mac App Store, the entire process has never been easier. […]
Continue reading...OS X 10.8.2 brings battery life back from the dead
Monday, October 1, 2012
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Let’s take a break from the iPhone 5 for a quick second and focus on something equally as sexy – battery life comparisons across various OS X iterations. I know I know, it’s hard to sit still but trust me, it’s actually rather interesting. MacObserver conducted a few tests measuring battery life performance in OS […]
Continue reading...Visual tour of OS X Mountain Lion [Video]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Check out this video preview highlighting many of the new features we can expect to see in OS X Mountain Lion.
Continue reading...Apple releases developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Apple today released a developer preview of the next iteration of OS X, dubbed Mountain Lion. The new OS contains over 100 new features and is available as a developer download today. The release of Mountain Lion further blurs the lines between OS X and iOS, and thankfully, Apple isn’t blindly incorporating every iOS feature […]
Continue reading...Apple releases public beta of new Messages app for OS X Mountain Lion
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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There’s a lot of OS X Mountain Lion news today, including the public beta release of Apple’s new Messages app for OS X. Positioned to replace iChat, Messages for OS X will integrate iChat and FaceTime functionality under one roof, while also being able to communicate with the Messages app for the iPhone and iPod […]
Continue reading...Apple begins work on OS X 10.8
Monday, October 31, 2011
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Since launching last July, sales of OS X 10.7 Lion have been through the roof. During Apple’s iPhone 4S event in early October, CEO Tim Cook explained that Lion was already running on 10% of the Mac customer base after only two weeks. In contract, Cook said, it took Windows 7 twenty weeks to reach […]
Continue reading...Tim Cook highlights rousing success of OS X Lion and the Mac
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: Tim Cook kicked off today’s keynote by highlighting the roaring success of the Mac and OS X Lion (sorry, we couldn’t help it). After starting off with an obligatory blurb from Walt Mossberg stating that OS X Lion is the “best operating system out there”, Cook dropped a number of interesting data […]
Continue reading...Lion beefs up OS X security
Friday, August 12, 2011
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As Apple’s marketshare in the PC market continues to increase, the Mac platform is increasingly becoming a target for hackers. Serious attacks and threats remain few and far in between and there’s certainly no reason to sound any alarm bells, but as the Mac becomes more visible, Apple will have to stay a few steps […]
Continue reading...Apple sued over fast booting patent originally owned by LG
Monday, August 8, 2011
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Apple’s legal team are undoubtedly a gainfully employed and busy group of folks. Indeed, it seems that not a week goes by that Apple isn’t either on the receiving or offensive end of a new lawsuit. Most recently, a Florida-based company that goes by Operating Systems Solutions, LLC sued Apple claiming that OS X violates […]
Continue reading...Apple sells over 1 million copies of OS X Lion in 24 hours – most successful OS launch in company history
Thursday, July 21, 2011
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Since going on sale yesterday, sales of OS X Lion have been so impressive that Apple decided to issue a press release touting that its latest OS update has been downloaded by over one million users, making it the most successful OS X launch in company history. Apple today announced that in just one day, […]
Continue reading...Lion allows users to run multiple copies of OS X on same machine
Sunday, July 3, 2011
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OS X Lion will enable Mac users to run multiple copies of OS X on the same machine. This functionality has previously only been available on Mac OS X Server but now OS X virtualization is coming to, well, to OS X. News of this came a few days ago when Apple released its Golden […]
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Monday, April 29, 2013
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