Intel’s hot new next-gen chipset looks like it’ll be making an appearance in Apple’s computer ranges rather soon, with Ivy Bridge processors popping up in some Apple tech benchmarks.
Apple originally touted Siri as the killer feature for the iPhone 4S, but it might not be exclusive to the phone for long. A new patent shows that iPhone users could be using Siri to control their iMac or MacBook in forthcoming versions of these machines.
Did you know iFixit was good for something other than posting galleries of new gadgets they’ve torn apart? Well they are, and their latest good deed involves devising a kit so that you can install a second hard drive in your mid-2011 iMac.
In the lead-up to CES my inbox is flooded with literally hundreds of pitches every day. I swear, one out of five has been for an iSomething. None of them were from Apple. iNeed you to friggin’ stop it.
AppleInsider noticed something peculiar about some build to orders iMacs, they went from a shipping estimate of one-to-three days to five-to-seven weeks. Specifically, the delay effects any iMac equipped with a 2TB hard drive. What’s going on?
Hard drives are terribly dull things — until you have to replace them, as our own Elly found out recently. Thankfully, even on heavily sealed systems, hard drive replacement is one of those jobs, like interior painting, that you should always do yourself.
The new iMac features a 21.5-inch display, 3.1GHz Core i3 processor, 250GB hard disk, 256MB HD 6750M graphics, and just 2GB of RAM. It lacks Thunderbolt connectivity and is only available to authorised education buyers. It’s $999 in the US, so $1179 isn’t too bad locally, right? Not when you see what spending just $170 more would get a school.
