Category: Mac

Retina MacBook Pro no longer a pipedream
[ 0 ] Tuesday, 12 June 2012 |

Retina MacBook Pro no longer a pipedream

The Retina MacBook Pro has been speculated ever since the new iPad was launched earlier this year. Tim Cook teased the audience at this year’s WWDC keynote when it put up refreshed specifications for the current MacBook Pro line and then suggested he needed to make room on the slide for something else. That something else was a new line of MacBook Pro’s which were hotly anticipaetd and pretty much guaranteed following Apple authorising “Retina ready” applications into the Mac App Store just a few days earlier.

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Mountain Lion Developer Preview Version 4 Released
[ 0 ] Tuesday, 12 June 2012 |

Mountain Lion Developer Preview Version 4 Released

The MacBook refresh and iOS 6 were hot topics at this year’s WWDC keynote event however news also came of OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 4 being made available to the Mac Developer Community. Similar to the iOS 6 Beta 1 release unless you are a registered developer you won’t be able to download and install the latest beta software legitimately.

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OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion System Requirements
[ 0 ] Friday, 8 June 2012 |

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion System Requirements

Every time Apple roll out a new version of Mac OS X they revise the system requirements. It will therefore come as no surprise that some machines are getting cut from the list of compatible Macs. Obviously, the newer the Mac the less chance there is of being excluded.

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How to: Get iMessage on your Mac today
[ 0 ] Friday, 8 June 2012 |

How to: Get iMessage on your Mac today

I never thought I’d use iMessage on my iPhone anywhere as much as I do. It just goes to show how many people I know who have an updated iPhone running iMessage. Like many others I quickly wanted iMessage on my Mac rather than the never used iChat software. We all knew iMessage for Mac would be in Apple’s “Mountain Lion” OS X update (release summer 2012) however Apple has kindly made the product available to us, albeit with a beta tag, to install on Lion.

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