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Rumor: OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion resource files hint at possible next-gen iMac, Mac Pro models without optical drives

It’s the internal files that hint at the upcoming cool stuff. Per AppleInsider, internal configuration files in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion make apparent references to yet-unreleased new generations of Apple’s iMac (iMac13,0) and Mac Pro (MacPro6,0), both in the context of USB booting options that indicate the new Mac desktops could, for the first […]

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Apple Store for iOS updated to 2.3, adds new shopping features

It’s not the most exciting news in the world, but it’s sort of a helpful update. On Friday, Apple released version 2.3 of its Apple Store app for iOS. The new version, a 5.6 megabyte download via iTunes, adds the following fixes and changes: – Now get the option to have Pages, Keynote and Numbers […]

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OS X 10.8 may not run on earlier 64-bit Macs

The good news: OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) has gone gold master and will probably arrive this month. The bad news: It might not run on your older 64-bit Intel-based Mac. According to Ars Technica, Apple has updated the upgrade page of its website, tweaking which models will be supported by the latest big cat. […]

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Apple quietly updates Mac Pro, adds modest speed boost

This sort of slipped in under the wire. Albeit it wasn’t officially announced at WWDC, the Mac Pro was updated via the Apple Store on Monday with a modest speed boost. The standard-configuration 12-core Mac Pro features two 2.4 gigahertz 6-core Intel Xeon E5645 processors and 12 megabytes of fully shared L3 cache per processor. […]

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“We Want a New Mac Pro” group page gaining traction/support

Apple’s Mac Pro line really hasn’t been updated in a while. Which is growing disconcerting to some users. Per AppleInsider, a group of users has begun a “We Want a New Macpro” group page on the social networking site had garnered over 4,000 likes as of late Thursday and a number of comments from group […]