Apple Views

An Apple Tablet Name

2007-12-20T20:28:28Z

Rumors about an 11-13" iTouch capable Tablet has circulated for months. Many expect Steven Jobs to make the announcement during his keynote address at MacWorld Expo.

In November 2007, the blog site Crave published confirmation from ASUS. They suggested the same technology in iPhone and iPod Touch will be in the Apple Tablet.

If you were Apple, what would you name the Apple Tablet?

The iPad parody ruins the name. I already own an iTablet from another company. Yet, wouldn't you expect Apple to place an i in front of a common name?

Here are some of my favorite names.

iPen (already taken by I-Pen)
iNote (used in 2005 by the Apple Blog)
iScript (used by Servertec)
iWonder (Just tossed in for fun - don't you ever wonder?)

ThinkSecret No More

2007-12-20T20:12:24Z

Apple and rumor website ThinkSecret have reached an agreement. The site will no longer be published and the Apple dropped the suit against the young man.

ThinkSecret was quick to publish information regarding future Apple products. For example, the site released information about the Intel Macs first.

No details of the settlement were made public.

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard build 9A559

2007-09-24T02:58:15Z

According to AppleInsider, developers received another build of the new Mac OS X 10.5.

Friday evening's release of build 9A559 was issued as a 6.5GB web download to all Apple Developer Connection members, whether they had installed the previous builds or not.

No Vista on Intel Macs

2006-03-11T17:42:09Z

Silicon is saying: Intel Macs are unlikely to be able to run Windows Vista, according to an Apple engineer speaking on Thursday.

Present versions of Windows use the BIOS, Vista will use Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) during the boot process. Only 64-bit Vista will support EFI. Putting this together means Apple fans are out of luck for running Windows Vista.

Mac mini Core Solo: First Impressions

2006-03-06T06:17:00Z

It looks like the Safari that comes with the new Mac mini is slightly newer than the one that was rolled out to my new iMac in the recent surge of updates, and as a result, my favorite little Safari helper, Saft, isn't working. This, again, is no big deal, and in fact is not even a glitch in the Mac mini, but just something that I thought worth noting for the curious amongst you.

Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).

A closer look at Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro

2006-02-26T01:30:27Z

One of the most interesting finds so far is that the MacBook Pro's Core Duo processor is soldered to the main logic board, rather than on a socket, and therefore is not not upgradeable after purchase. The only way to upgrade a MacBook Pro to a faster processor is to select the 2.16GHz (+$300) option when ordering a 2.0GHz MacBook Pro Core Duo from Apple's online store.

Source: AppleInsider

On practicality and Apple Tablets

2006-02-20T21:09:58Z

I've given up expecting a Tablet from Apple. It's not that I don't think they have the perfect market--artists, highly mobile freelancers, writers, and the like. It's just I think Apple will have its hands full during the transition to the Intel platform. I'll give them a couple years.

Source: Incremental Blogger

What to make of Apple's touchscreen patent filings?

2006-02-18T01:52:00Z

For as long as tablet PCs have been around, Mac users have wondered if Apple would be releasing a tablet running Mac OS X. Google image searchs for "iTablet" and "iTablet mockup" return a respectable number of mockups ranging from the fanciful to the utilitarian. And once upon a time, Apple had a promising handwriting recognition system that would be perfect for a tablet. No, I'm not thinking of the late and lamented Newton, but the "Ink" feature built into Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2). Ink provided handwriting-recognition functionality along with the ability to input commands via gestures, and required a graphics tablet to function. Now called "Inkwell," the functionality is still around, but definitely not a featured technology in Mac OS X.

Source: Arstechnica

Apple's New Support Site

2006-01-04T14:05:36Z

The new layout of the Apple support site is online.

Camino - Mozilla power, Mac style.

2006-01-04T03:49:54Z

Camino 1.0b2 is available. We advise users to update to this version. It contains several important security fixes as well as various other fixes. The latest multilingual version is 0.8.4 and is available for download.

Source: Camino Browser

iBook and PowerBook Reliability

2006-01-04T03:00:07Z

Our survey spanned every laptop capable of running Mac OS X, encompassing 41 models sold over seven and a half years. A challenge in ascertaining the reliability of any device is that more time gives them more opportunity to break, so new devices should always look more reliable at first glance. Our survey asked participants when their laptop first needed a repair — "first year", "second or third year", and "fourth year or later." These correspond to the duration of Apple's standard one-year warranty, the AppleCare extended warranty program, and any repairs that might happen outside any warranty coverage period.

We also asked participants if they purchased AppleCare for their laptop. MacInTouch readers have strong opinions about whether or not AppleCare is a good investment; we hoped to quantify how often it is invoked for service. Hoping to gauge which models might have had repeat problems, we also asked how many times a laptop was repaired (regardless of warranty status) — as well as providing an option for "It broke, but I didn't have it fixed." (Thus, repair numbers do not always exactly match problem reports.)

Source: www.macintouch.com

Apple Vingle information

2006-01-01T19:08:00Z

Apple Computer has applied for a trademark on the term 'Vingle,' AppleInsider has discovered.

The iPod maker filed for the trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office earlier this month under three distinct categories. (Apple Insider. October 13, 2005.)

Honour goes to Apple gadget guru

2005-12-31T15:15:22Z

Congratulations to Jonathan Ive:

the man behind Apple's iconic iPod and iMac, has become a CBE in the New Year Honours list.

He is widely seen as one of the key figures in Apple's resurrection.

Mr Ive started working for Apple in 1992 but exerted a big influence on its products only in 1997 when Steve Jobs returned to the company he co-founded.

Mr Ive's first design for Apple, the iMac, was hugely influential and has been followed by a series of other widely admired gadgets.

Source: BBC NEWS

Apple Continues to Wow

2005-12-31T14:12:08Z

Apple continued to build on its dominance of the digital music industry in 2005, and saw the successes slowly bleed into its personal computer business as industry analysts began to gauge the iPod's "halo effect."

The folks at Cupertino would also do the once unthinkable and admit that Apple was falling behind the rest of the industry by continuing with the PowerPC architecture, a decision that could shape the company in 2006 and beyond.

Apple started the year by opening an Irish version of the iTunes Music Store four days before Macworld. However, the biggest fireworks were yet to come.

At Macworld on January 11, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the company was joining the low-price PC industry by introducing an entry level Mac Mini at $499. Jobs also unveiled the iPod Shuffle, a diminutive flash player that would now serve as the entry point to Apple's iPod line.

Source: BetaNews

PowerBook 15" RAM Issue

2005-12-28T17:51:52Z

If you've had trouble with your PowerBook 15 Inch's RAM not being recognized with certain versions of OS X, be sure to check out this possible class action lawsuit. The problems seem to occur with the lower of the two memory slots in only the 15 inch models of PowerBooks. Many users first noticed this problem with an update to OS 10.3.9 and fewer reported problems with 10.4.0 and 10.4.1 all using automatic update. Apparently, the second memory slot becomes physically damaged with the upgrade, which I find hard to believe.

Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).