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Almost 80% of current Macs should be able to run OS X Yosemite

The odds are in your favor as to being able to run OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Per Computerworld, OS X Yosemite will run on about eight out of every ten Macs, a boon for customers who want to upgrade this fall. OS X 10.10, aka Yosemite — named after the California national park — will […]

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Rumor: Mac mini ship times slip to 5-7 days, near-term Haswell refresh possible?

When the ship times vary, a new product refresh could be around the corner. Per MacRumors, Mac mini ship times on many Apple Online Stores have slipped to 5-7 business days. This flies in the face of ship times for all the other Macs, as the other units on the online store have shipping estimates […]

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Apple offers first look at next-gen Mac Pro at WWDC

The new Mac Pro is en route. And it’s really, really, awesomely black. Per Macworld, Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller unveiled the company’s upcoming Mac Pro during a “sneak peek” at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The upcoming new desktop workstation features a sleek, cylindrical design that’s a stark contrast to the mammoth, […]

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Apple extends replacement program for MacBook bottom case, bumps claim period from two to four years

You remember Apple’s somewhat-weird polycarbonate MacBook with the rubber bottom? And how the rubber bottom had its own oddities? Well, Apple’s extending the coverage period on said weird rubber bottom. Per MacRumors, Apple last week quietly made a change to its program regarding defective MacBook bottom cases, extending the coverage period from two years after […]

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Apple releases Mac mini EFI Firmware Update 1.7, works to address HDMI flicker issue on late-2012 Mac mini

You can’t knock a good firmware update. Late Monday, Apple released Mac mini EFI Firmware Update 1.7, the company’s firmware updater for the late-2012 Mac mini desktop. The update, a 4.8 megabyte download, addresses HDMI video flicker issues on Mac mini (Late 2012) computers and is recommended for all users. The EFI Firmware Update 1.7 […]