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Apple posts official list of OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)-compatible Macs

If you qualify, you’ll try to high-five everyone you meet today and your friends will eventually want you to shut up about it. If you don’t, well, you can meet me down at the corner pub for happy hour… Per The Verge, Apple has posted a “How to Upgrade” page on its website that contains […]

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Production effort towards 2012 MacBooks creating labor shortage in/around China

The good news is that Apple’s 2012 notebooks seem to be under construction. The bad news is that this doesn’t really help the regional labor markets. Per DigiTimes, anticipated demand for Apple’s redesigned line of 2012 MacBooks is reportedly so strong that the company’s Far Eastern component suppliers are facing a labor shortage as they […]

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Finance News

Apple posts $11.6 billion profit for Q2 2012, iOS devices drive strong earnings

It’s pretty clear at this point: Apple’s not in danger of going out of business. Per Macworld, on Tuesday, Apple reported a net profit of US$11.6 billion on revenue of US$39.2 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. Those are respective increases of 94 percent and 59 percent from the 2011 second quarter. Apple’s […]

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MacBook Pro Rumor

Rumor: Apple to discontinue 17-inch MacBook Pro model

In addition to Microsoft pulling its Office 2011 SP2 update, here’s your other piece of potential bad news for the day: Per AppleInsider, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo with KGI Securities predicted on Monday that Apple is “likely to stop making” the 17-inch MacBook Pro this year. He cited falling shipments with the company’s top-of-the-line notebook as […]

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MacBook Pro Rumor

Rumor: Apple to begin production of 200,000 15-inch MacBook Pro notebooks in April, 400,000 13-inch MacBook Pro notebooks in June

It won’t be long now. Per DigiTimes, Apple is gearing up to begin production of its new thinner and lighter MacBook Pros, with production of the new 15-inch model set to begin first in mid-April. Mass production of the new 15-inch MacBook Pro will see initial monthly shipments of 200,000 units, according to the web […]