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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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OS X 10.10 Yosemite beta hardware requirements released, remain unchanged since OS X 10.9 Mavericks

If you’re running OS X 10.9 Mavericks, it looks like you’re going to be able to run OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Per AppleInsider, the following system requirements have been released for the first OS X 10.10 Yosemite beta: – MacBook Pro: mid-2007 or newer – MacBook Air: late 2008 or newer – iMac: mid-2007 or […]

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Will the next NSA satellite have an Apple logo?

Well, perhaps that is a stretch, but Apple’s possible connection with the NSA was revealed in a report dating back to 2008. Reuters explains that the report outlined a system that the NSA was developing, called DROPOUTJEEP, which would be software implanted into an iPhone that allows infiltrators to push and pull and retrieve data from […]

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Apple releases OS X 10.9 Mavericks, offers OS upgrade for free

You’ve REALLY been waiting for this one. On Tuesday, Apple released its long-awaited OS X 10.9 Mavericks operating system. The new OS, which stands at roughly a five gigabyte download via OS X’s Software Update utility, offers the following fixes, changes and new features: iBooks: – Download and read books from the iBooks Store. – […]

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Study shows Microsoft’s Windows market share falling from 90% to 33% in post-PC device world

The day you never thought would arrive may finally be here. Of course, it still depends on how you look at the data… According to Asymco’s Horace Dediu, over the last five years, Post-PC devices have displaced conventional Windows PCs so rapidly that Microsoft’s dominance over personal computing has plummeted from roughly 90 percent share […]