Cheerful Apple spokesman aficionado John Gruber talks about four tweets that, according to him, “may” indicate an incoming Apple hardware upgrade, perhaps the introduction of new Retina Display-level Macs or displays. Given his intimately wet relationship with Apple, you better listen up to his “wishful thinking”. More »
Personally I find the whole Mac/PC argument tedious in the extreme; I’m a Mac user who’s quite happy to run Windows as well, but doing so can be a costly exercise in hardware and virtualisation software. The latest in the seemingly never-ending stream of budget application bundles takes some of the cost sting out, offering up Parallels Desktop 7 along with nine other Mac apps for $US49. [Mac SuperBundle via OzBargain]
Apple wants uni students to buy Macs as they head back to classes this year. To try and incentivise them to opt for an OS X machine, Apple is offering a free $100 iTunes voucher with the purchase of any Mac for education purposes. Naturally, as students, you’re expected to blow the voucher on Angry Birds clones within a matter of days… [Apple]
Making full use of your Mac’s thunderbolt port has been an expensive business until now, with the only dock option being a $US999 Apple display. Thankfully, Belkin is finally releasing its Thunderbolt Express dock in September 2012. More »
Air Dictate is a clever little app that ports the power of Siri over to the Mac. Kind of. It doesn’t have any of the bells and whistles of Siri (don’t go starting conversations!) but rather, uses the extremely accurate speech recognition engine in Siri to dictate text to your Mac. More »
Screenshots of Mac OS X 10.7.3 developer builds have revealed what we already suspected: ultra-high definition Macs are coming. This Get Info window capture reveals a HIDPI (Hi-Dots-Per-Inch) mode checkbox that may come in the next update of Apple’s desktop OS. More »
I have a Sorny Inspironbookmate 2564300iP00. Can I make Hackintosh? But seriously, I know a lot of people ask if they can hackintosh their obscure laptop that nobody has ever heard of and I understand it’s very unlikely that they can, but when is it possible? When can Mac OS X be installed on a out-of-the-box laptop and run just like it would on a real Mac? More »
Why mess around with a tiny touchscreen interface when you can run your android OS from your big screen TV — or really any screen for that matter? More »
If you’ve read our guide to building a Hackintosh you know that installing Mac OS X Lion requires a bit of work. You have install Snow Leopard, then go through a fairly tedious upgrade process rather than just installing from scratch. Fortunately, thanks to a new utility called UniBeast (from tonymacx86, of course), that’s no longer a problem. More »
Odd, I could have sworn Bitcoin was on the fast track towards technological irrelevance. So why is this new Mac malware harnessing infected GPUs to mine the digital dollars? More »
