New MacBook Air has more to love and is now just £999/$999
Apple today updated MacBook Air, the world’s most loved notebook, with faster performance, the new Magic Keyboard, twice the storage and a new lower price of £999/$999, and even less for education.* The new MacBook Air delivers up to two times faster CPU performance** and up to 80 percent faster graphics performance,*** letting customers breeze through daily activities and play more games. Now starting with 256GB of storage, MacBook Air allows customers to store even more movies, photos and files. With its brilliant 13-inch Retina display for vivid images and sharp text, Touch ID for easy login and secure online purchases, spacious trackpad, and all-day battery life combined with the…
WaterField Debuts Sutter Tech Sling for New Apple iPad Pros and New MacBook Air
I must be one of the biggest fans of WaterField Designs, a San Francisco designer and manufacturer of custom laptop sleeves, bags and device-specific cases. On my recent press trip to Germany and Italy, I used continuously the iPhone Camera Bag that I have reviewed previously. It managed to carry comfortably, two mobile devices, glasses and some cash. The trip I was on was extremely energetic with helicopter rides, boat trips and fast street photography in Sorrento. This bag coped admirably and now WaterField are debutting another very useful bag, which we hope to thoroughly review soon. It’s the Sutter Tech Sling bag, a sophisticated one-strap backpack in two sizes,…
All-new Apple MacBook Air takes flight
Apple today introduced an all-new MacBook Air, bringing a stunning 13-inch Retina display, Touch ID, the latest processors and an even more portable design to the world’s most loved notebook. Delivering the all-day battery life it’s known for, the new MacBook Air is available in three gorgeous finishes — gold, space grey and silver. The most affordable Retina-display Mac ever also includes an Apple-designed keyboard, a spacious Force Touch trackpad, faster SSDs, wide stereo sound, the Apple T2 Security Chip and Thunderbolt 3, making the new MacBook Air the perfect notebook to take with you everywhere you go. “The first MacBook Air revolutionised Mac with its thin wedge-shaped aluminium design.…
Apple Updates 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display & MacBook Air
Apple today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display with the all-new Force Touch trackpad, fifth generation Intel Core processors and Intel Iris Graphics 6100, two times faster flash and longer battery life, bringing even more performance and capabilities to our pro customers.* Apple also today updated the 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air with fifth generation Intel Core processors, Intel HD Graphics 6000, and Thunderbolt 2, and added up to two times faster flash to the 13-inch MacBook Air, making the perfect everyday notebooks even better. “Today the popular 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, 11-inch MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Air all received significant upgrades,” said Philip Schiller,…
Rumour – New Apple iPads To Be Announced October 21
Well, that’s the rumour and one that we’re really hoping turns true. It’s a pattern that Apple have repeated for the past few years, last October Apple unveiled the iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina display. This October we’re hoping for new iPad models with possibly the A8 processor that they’ve added to the new iPhone’s, there are also rumours of a new larger iPad Air model expecting to be announced. There are several hardware products that are in need of being updated, these include the Mac Mini, MacBook Air, iMac and Apple TV – we’re hoping that these also see a refresh, if not in October, then before…
Apple’s New Back To School Promotion Rolls Out – And It’s Better Than Ever
Apple have just launched their new Back to School Promotion, which is good and better than last year. Apple will give you, if you’re in Education a $100/£70 App Store gift card when you purchase a Mac or $50/£35 when you buy an iPad or iPhone. The latter is the new part and is a welcome inclusion. When you purchase an Apple product within their Educational pricing structure you will already be saving money, as many products are already discounted and this gift card is just the ‘icing on the cake’. For example the retail price of a MacBook Air 11 inch 128 GB is $999/£849, the Educational pricing structure…
Black Friday Deals At The Apple Store
Black Friday deals are in full swing at the Apple store but as always, they’re nothing to really shout about and won’t change your life but a saving is a saving nonetheless. We’ve listed some of the deals below take a look… iPad (4th Generation) If you’ve been wanting to pick up the Wi-Fi only model of the brand spanking new iPad, check out the savings below: Wi-Fi only 16 GB now $458 (save $41)/£368 ($31) – 32 GB now $548 (save $51)/£438 ($41) – 64 GB now $638 (save $61)/£508 (£51) Wi-Fi + Cellular version 16 GB now $588 (save $41)/£468 (save £31) – 32 GB now…
Massive Sales At Best Buy UK Today On Apple Gear – Don’t Miss These Deals
There are some great bargains to be had at Best Buy UK today, the stores have been closed all weekend as the staff have been preparing for their closing down sale. Look at some of the bargains that we have found, but hurry we’re sure they are all in limited supply. iPad 2 Smart Cover Unfortunately all the iPad’s and iPod Touches appear to be out of stock at the moment but there are cool accessories to pick up. You could purchase a blue iPad smart cover for £26.25, instead of £35.00 – just click here. iPad 2 Dock Or you can save £6.25 on an iPad 2 dock…
Apple Discounts iPad, iMac, iPod, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro And More For Black Friday
9to5Mac are reporting that a ‘trusted tipster’ has provided them with details of Apple’s Black Friday sale, this Friday November 25th. The deals look better than last years offerings at least as there are greater discounts to higher capacity iPads and iPods. From what we can tell so far, the MacBook Airs and Pros will be around $101 less, the iPads are discounted between $41-$61, from 16GB up to 64GB. The iPod Nano gets $11 off on either capacity and the iPod Touch is discounted from $21-$41, similar to the iPads staggered discounts.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight – But Not For Long + Specs Of New MacBook Airs
With the online Apple Stores closed throughout the world at present, it won’t be long now until the Lion roars and with that OS update, we’re also hoping for some nice hardware to play along with it. Of course, we’re thinking MacBook Airs and 9to5Mac have apparently got hold of the specs of these impending notebooks. Take a look below to check these out. 11.6 inch models • The base model will include a 1.6 GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM, and 64GB of flash storage. • The more expensive standard configuration also includes a 1.6 GHz processor but upgrades the RAM to 4GB and the storage space to 128 GB. • A…
