Apple announces new iPhone 3GS

Apple today unveiled the iPhone 3GS, its third iteration of the popular smartphone, which will include a video camera and an improved still camera, as well as a digital compass and faster Web browsing and launching of programs.

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Apple drops entry iPhone to $99, unveils new model

Apple Inc. slashed the entry price for an iPhone in half and lowered some laptops by $300 Monday, the company's first dramatic price cuts since the recession began a year and a half ago.

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Non-removable batteries aren't a charge for all

Apple’s MacBook Air and latest 17-inch MacBook Pro laptop have non-removable batteries. Asus, maker of the popular Eee netbook computers, plans to follow suit with its 1008HA model, due out mid-year in the United States.

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Review: Apple's MacBook Pro Is Fast Laptop

Apple Computer Inc.'s notebooks have long been highly regarded for their thoughtful designs and leading-edge features. But when it comes to performance, recent models have been lagging behind competitors that run Intel Corp.'s chips.

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Apple to Begin Shipping New MacBook Pro

Apple Computer Inc. said Tuesday it will begin shipping this week the new MacBook Pro, the company's first laptop computer to feature an Intel Corp. microprocessor.

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And you know why I know they're working? Because two weeks ago we got a call from the Apple legal department saying, hey -- this is a true story -- saying, "Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we lowered our prices." They took like $100 off or something.

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Eight, freakin, hours. I couldn't believe it. In my lightest test, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro lasted eight hours and eight minutes. That's with the screen at half brightness (completely usable) and no funny optimizations.

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If you own a Macbook Pro manufactured between May 2007 and September 2008 with the GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor, and you are having video problems, get in touch with Apple.

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The 13-inch category in particular was dominated by Apple's laptop line, topped by the unibody MacBook and followed by both the MacBook Air and the white, polycarbonate MacBook.

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Look, there are some valid reasons to pick a Mac over a PC, just like there are valid reasons to pick a PC over a Mac. But you shouldn't smear blatant horse@!$%# all over them, especially when it's already confusing enough for regular people, your audience, Mr.

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So why is Flying Meat participating in MacHeist time around, when I blasted it a couple of years ago? Well, it's pretty simple. The folks at MacHeist fixed the payment terms after MacHeist 1, and developers are getting a much better deal now. Tada.

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Love 'em or hate 'em, the members of the Apple portable line dominated the Ars staff suggestions for "the ultimate road warrior laptop," and they proved popular in the forums, as well.

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The Inquirer, which has been sticking it to NVIDIA for some time, is again taking the chip maker to task this week, claiming that it's supplying Apple with graphics chips for the new MacBook Pro that use materials that have caused problems in the past.

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Apple (AAPL) is the only company I know that can tell its customers what they want and make them like it. Nobody else has pulled that off since Henry Ford decreed that consumers could get a Model T in any color they liked as long as it was black.

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Apple is contributing $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that would define marriage as only between a man and a woman. The company's announcement today came as the fight over Prop. 8 grows hotly contested, with recent polls showing the race tightening.

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Ars Creative Director Aurich Lawson on glossy vs. matte:

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A tipster sent us this image of what appears to be a MacBook Pro with a glossy screen akin to the design of a newer Intel-based iMac.

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"Both the MacBook and the MacBook Pro will be aluminum.

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In July, Nvidia informed the Securities and Exchange Commission that it would incur a $150 million to $200 million charge to cover repair and replacement expenses resulting from "a weak die/packaging material set" in certain versions of its previous MCP and GPU products employed  …

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Even monkey-man himself uses a Mac apparently.

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Before my fiancée and I headed to Syria to study Arabic, we often heard there was one advantage to living in a police state: almost no crime.

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Apple Inc.'s existing MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks will be the last of their breed, as both product families are destined for major design changes upon their next refresh, AppleInsider has learned.

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Apple's recent Mac growth has been huge, growing a whopping 60 percent in February 2008 over the same month last year.

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Apple is skimping on the Apple Remote across the line; it's now a $19 add-on.

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More powerful versions of the MacBook Pro have been released today with up to 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn processors, and the MacBook Air's trackpad which allows for multi-touch gestures.

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The seemingly endless wait for a new line of professional notebooks from Mac maker Apple Inc. appears to be nearing an end, with part numbers and pricing for new MacBook Pro models cropping up in inventory systems worldwide over the weekend.

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Rumor: New Macbook Pros Supposed to Debut at MWSF, Coming "Soon"

Apple is expected to announce new Macbook Pros this month, but according to an unverified AppleInsider forum poster, were supposed to be announced at Macworld. This poster claims that he has an inside source, and that they will be released soon.

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The midnight concert, however, appears to have dashed hopes for a larger Apple media event this month, which had been rumored by several blog sites.

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For the last few weeks, there has been brewing speculation about a big announcement soon. And Apple Insider has intercepted a message from Mike Shinoda, a member of the band Linkin Park, to its fans.

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The Tuesday blues - do retailers read the rumor sites too?

Mac users are a unique set of people, to say the least. Some may call us snobs; some may say we are idealists that buy into the Think Different mentality; some say we simply use a superior product.

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