Posts Tagged by Macbook Pro
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| June 17, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It’s the Apple edition of TSR on tech, with the WWDC keynote on Monday dominating the news cycle for the rest of the week. There were other goings-on, which we have duly reported on: cuts at Nokia, a rejected appeal for Assange, some important security updates; but all eyes were on San Francisco for Apple’s announcements about hardware updates, the new MacBook Pro with a Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion, and iOS 6. We’ve got the details on all of the aforementioned and more – just read on! Business Nokia, formerly the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has announced layoffs of up to 10,000 employees. The company will also close a factory in Finland and research facilities in Germany and… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It’s certainly been a varied week – first HP did a U-turn, then Newsstand turned out to be incredibly popular and Netflix announced it’s going to come and conquer the UK market. And that’s only business news! We also saw the return of the hacking which had been happily absent from the news recently, the gaming requirements for Skyrim, a fancy new BlackBerry phone, problems at WikiLeaks and the sad passing of celebrated computer scientist John McCarthy. All that and more, below. Business The new CEO at HP, Meg Whitman, has made her first big splash at the company by announcing that it will not be selling off its PC business after all. Whitman said: “HP objectively evaluated the strategic,… more
Apple updates Macbook Pro line, Thunderbolt technology included
| February 25, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under technology |
As many people expected, Thursday morning saw Apple roll out its latest updates to its line of Macbook Pro laptops. While the line looks almost identical from the outside, the insides have changed considerably. All three models will now incorporate Intel’s new Sandy Bridge architecture processors – the 13″ model will come with a choice of either a dual-core i5 or i7 processor, while the 15″ and 17″ versions will include quad-core i7 processors, which Apple claims will be up to twice as fast as the previous incarnations. This came as a surprise for two reasons. For one thing Apple is certainly not known for jumping on board with brand new technology, but the recent problems discovered with the Sandy… more
