New Apple ad shows off sticker-clad MacBook Airs — The ad calls the Air ‘the notebook people love’: Apple has published a short 30-second commercial featuring a number of MacBook Airs dressed up in stickers and decals, with each customised thin-and-light reflecting the personality of its owner. You can watch it at Apple Insider.
Intel rolls out faster Haswell CPUs possibly bound for MacBook Pro refresh — Intel on Sunday released a batch of new Core i5 and Core i7 Haswell processors for high-end laptops like Apple’s MacBook Pro, each boasting the usual speed bumps when compared to prior versions.
Apple issues MacBook Air EFI update to address wake from sleep problems on mid-2011 models — Apple on Monday posted an EFI update for its thin-and-light MacBook Air, addressing two wake from sleep issues including a rare problem that causes the computer’s fans to spin at full speed unnecessarily. Apple’s MacBook Air EFI firmware update 2.9 targets problems seen on mid-2011 models running OS X 10.9.2 and later.
OS X Yosemite Preview 4 brings redesigned Calculator, updated Dark Mode — Alongside a host of bug fixes, the latest developer preview of Apple’s next-generation desktop operating system brought a few small but noticeable visual tweaks to some of OS X’s oldest components, including a redesigned Calculator.
Apple releases iTunes 12 beta with ‘elegant new design,’ Family Sharing — Alongside new beta versions of iOS 8, OS X Yosemite and numerous development tools, Apple on Monday released a preview of iTunes 12 sporting what the company calls an “elegant new design” and support for the Family Sharing feature introduced at WWDC.
Marked 2.3 arrives in the Mac App Store — Marked 2 has finally hit the Mac App Store. Previously only available via developer Brett Terpstra’s website, the update has now officially replaced the original Marked in the Store. Version 2.3 introduces a number of new features to the preview app for markup languages.
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