MacBook Air
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MacBook Air review: Finally a buy!
When Apple released the latest version of its featherweight notebook last week, it killed the MacBook line and positioned the 11-inch Air as the "ultimate everyday notebook." But can it really be your one-and-only?
Billed as the "world's thinnest laptop" when it launched three years ago, Apple's (AAPL) MacBook Air always struck me as a notebook that was easy on the eyes but lacked muscle.
I enjoyed the svelte look and featherweight MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 27, 2011 12:24 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Intel Core 2, iPad, iPhone, Mac OS X Lion, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Macintosh -
The Apple Store is back up
With OS X Lion, a new MacBook Air and a new MacBook mini
In Wednesday's apple.com splash screen, Apple (AAPL) is highlighting "the new, faster MacBook Air."
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 20, 2011 8:50 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Google + tops 10 million users
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* One third-party reported it, but now it's official: Google+ grew to 10 million in two weeks, with users sharing more than 1 billion items being shared daily. "We're only at 1% of what's possible," Google CEO Larry Page said during this week's conference call. "Google's just getting MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 15, 2011 8:58 AM ETPosted in: Flurry, Google, iPad, iPhone, MacBook Air, MySpace, sean parker, Spotify, Wall Street Journal -
J.P. Morgan sees the MacBook Air as a $3 billion business
Expects average sales of Apple's "quasi-tablet for productivity users" to hit 700,000/quarter
In early April, J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz issued a glowing report on Apple's thinnest notebook computer in which he predicted that Apple would sell $2.2 billion worth of MacBook Airs in the next 12-18 months.
On Thursday he revised his estimates -- upward. Not only did the new models released last October sell like crazy in the Christmas quarter, but MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 16, 2011 10:07 AM ETPosted in: Apple, J.P. Morgan, Laptop, MacBook, MacBook Air, Macintosh, Mark Moskowitz, netbooks, notebooks, PCs, Solid-state drive -
Consumer Reports [hearts] Apple's MacBooks
Apple's notebooks sweep every category in the latest report, despite middling reliability scores
Consumer Reports doesn't always love Apple's (AAPL) products. It still doesn't recommend the iPhone 4 because of problems its testing lab had with the external antenna. But in its survey of the current crop of notebook computers released Tuesday, the magazine gave the MacBook line its highest ratings in every category in which Apple competes, from the 11-inch MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 25, 2011 7:03 AM ETPosted in: Acer, Antennagate, Apple, Asus, Consumer Reports, Dell, iPhone 4, Laptop, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Sony, Toshiba -
Dropbox: 25 million users and counting
The popular start-up says it grew more than 500% in 15 months. How's that for viral effectiveness?
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 18, 2011 10:00 AM ET
FORTUNE -- As many in Silicon Valley know, very few start-ups succeed, and even if they do, even fewer stumble upon the kind of growth Dropbox has in such little time. But since January 2010, CEO Drew Houston and CTO Arash Ferdowsi's file-syncing and sharing service has exploded, from 4 million to 25 million, with MORE -
How many Macs did Apple sell last quarter?
Estimates from the analysts we polled range from 3.34 million to 3.87 million
Apple's (AAPL) computer line celebrated a unusually merry Christmas in its first fiscal quarter of 2011, selling more than 4 million Macs for the first time it its history.
In what was a difficult quarter for the rest of the PC industry, Mac unit sales were up 23% year over year.
None of the 43 analysts we polled -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 9, 2011 11:56 AM ET -
The $2.2 billion MacBook Air
Apple's break-out notebook, says an analyst, may represent a new category: the quasi-tablet
With so much attention focused on the iPad, J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz chose Monday to change the subject.
He issued a note to clients that focused instead on the fastest growing member of Apple's Mac line: The MacBook Air.
According to Moskowitz, revenue from Air sales tripled and units quadrupled year over year after Apple (AAPL) cut the price, added MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 4, 2011 3:39 PM ETPosted in: Apple, iPad, iPhone, J.P. Morgan, MacBook, MacBook Air, Macintosh, Mark Moskowitz, Mobile, Tablets -
The world's first live Mac teardown
At Macworld, the guys from iFixit take apart a MacBook Air in less than nine minutes
With a spudger, two Torx and a pentalobe screwdriver, Luke Soules stripped down Apple's (AAPL) thinnest computer Friday before an audience of a couple hundred Macworld attendees in 8 minutes and 40 seconds.
It was the world's first live teardown, according to Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, a repair shop that claims to sell more Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 28, 2011 1:16 PM ET -
iPad is Time's top Gadget of 2010
From this week's magazine:
"It's not the first touchscreen tablet in the history of computing, but it's easily the most successful so far. With 3 million iPads sold in their first month alone [see note] and a market for interactive magazines and newspapers created almost overnight, Apple finally managed to make tablet computing cool."
Time put four Apple (AAPL) products on its list of the top MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 10, 2010 5:11 PM ET
