Biggest savings on Macs. Best deals on accessories. But beware the malware.
Apple Inc.
Apple (AAPL) posted its Black Friday sale prices at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time Friday and they were exactly as rumored.
The savings on Apple-branded products range from a high of 15.94% on $69 accessories like the Magic Trackpad to 7.02% -- less than the sales tax in 25 states -- on the $299 Time Capsule 2TB.
A guide to the best deals:
WARNING: Online shoppers looking for Black Friday bargains are a popular target for the purveyors of malware and spam, and one of this year's big cons, according to the German blog Eleven Security (English translation), is an e-mail purportedly from Apple with the subject line "iTunes Gift Certificate" that offers $50 but delivers instead a Microsoft (MSFT) Windows executable file. It's believed to contain a trojan or worm. Don't click on the .zip.
Intel is prodding PC manufacturers to make better ultra-thin and light laptops like Apple's MacBook Air. But the concept faces strong headwinds -- and tough competition.
FORTUNE -- When Apple launched the MacBook Air, it got flack: not fast enough, not enough ports, too pricey, the optional external optical disc drive had as much portable appeal as a brick. Fast-forward three years, and the current version of the Air has become MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 12, 2011 12:13 PM ET
FORTUNE -- When Steve Jobs stepped down in August as Apple's CEO for health reasons, it got us thinking about the arc of his spectacular career. His product presentations became rock star events that continually disrupted the industry. --Anne VanderMey
Photographs are culled from launches, expos, and Jobs' other appearances with new products. Sources: Apple; The Fortune Archive; The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
Here are a few MORE
Sep 9, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Shipments are reported to be approaching 3-4 million/month as production constraints ease
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Following a mid second-quarter check with his sources in Apple's (AAPL) supply chain, Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu raised his unit sales estimates Friday as well as his price target: to $460 to $445. The stock, which has been impervious to the enthusiasms of sell-side analysts lately, closed Thursday at $340.53.
Among the highlights of the new report:
The MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 20, 2011 8:27 AM ET
The release announcing the latest version of a 13-year-old product is a model of overstatement
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If you want to know about the new iMacs Apple (AAPL) released Tuesday, the best place to get the low-down is from Apple's own spec sheet here.
If you want to see how Apple sells the story to tech writers, the press release is here. To spare you the trouble, we've totted up the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 3, 2011 11:25 AM ET
New Sandy Bridge iMacs expected shortly
[UPDATE: The store is back up with new iMacs on display starting at $1,199.]
As expected, Apple's (AAPL) online store early Tuesday displayed its Post-it yellow "We'll be back soon" note, the universal sign that a new product is about to be released.
This time the new entry is widely expected to be an updated iMac, the workhorse Apple desktop that hasn't been refreshed since July 27, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 3, 2011 8:33 AM ET
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"It is not thicker, don't believe all the junk that you read."
-- Apple Senior VP Phil Schiller supposed response to reports that the white iPhone 4 is thicker (9 to 5 Mac)
Some Research In Motion investors reportedly sold shares late last week based on growing general concern that MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - May 2, 2011 6:30 AM ET
A profile in the Daily Mail blames it on an assignment to design a toilet
Ive at Walton High School, Stafford. Via the Daily Mail
Lots of new details about the man it calls "the most successful designer on the planet" in Rob Waugh's long biographical profile of Jonathan ("Jony") Ive in Sunday's Daily Mail, starting with the toilet design that drove him out of England:
"The manner of his departure for MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 21, 2011 6:51 AM ET
Our survey of analysts suggests that Apple is set to report its first 4 million Mac quarter
Click to enlarge. Source: Company reports, Q1 2011 consensus
In the Gartner report issued this week, U.S. sales of Apple's (AAPL) Macintosh computers grew 23% year over year last quarter while overall PC sales (even including the Mac) fell 6.6%.
That's been the story for much of 2010: PC sales weak, Macintosh sales strong.
But the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 14, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Piper Jaffray's top Apple analyst offers his annual product predictions
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Apple (AAPL) is unlikely to break into any new hardware categories in 2011, according to a note to clients issued Monday by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster. But that doesn't mean the company won't have a busy year.
Here's what he sees as the major announcements of 2011:
95% probability: Launch of a Verizon (VZ) iPhone (before the end of March)
100%: Launch MORE
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