Power up! Mountain Lion update improves battery life on Macbooks

While yesterday's 10.8.1 Mountain Lion update did not mention battery improvements, the update does indeed give some Mac users more battery life.

Cat power: Apple’s Mountain Lion is quickly marking its territory

Apple’s just-launched Mountain Lion operating system has already seen widespread adoption among Mac users and accounts for 3 percent of Mac web traffic around the globe, AllThingsD reports.

Mountain Lion is an incremental OS update from Lion with 200 new …

Bummer: Many older Macs can’t run OS X Mountain Lion

With each new release of Apple’s operating system, several older Mac models get left out in the cold when it comes to support. The just-announced Mountain Lion OS is no exception, and thanks to TUAW we now we have a …

Report: Macs now have 5% of global market share

Apple’s Mac computers have hit the 5 percent mark in worldwide market share for the first time in 15 years, according to an All Things D report.

The Windows OS has been the most pervasive and popular operating system around …

Apple’s networked computers may be more vulnerable to network attacks than Windows

For many years, Apple enjoyed security through obscurity. The market share for Mac computers was so small that malware creators bypassed it to go after the much bigger target, Microsoft Windows. Not anymore.

Apple’s market share has been slowly rising …

Apple sells 1 million copies of OS X Lion in one day

Apple announced Thursday that its latest operating system — OS X 10.7, codenamed Lion — has sold more than 1 million copies since it made its debut on the Mac App Store just one day earlier.

The new operating system …

Hands-on with OS X Lion: iPad-like upgrade, but what’s the point?

Apple’s latest Mac operating system — OS X 10.7, codenamed Lion — has finally come out. It’s designed to invoke the same kind of lightweight hands-on feel the iPhone operating system, iOS, has made popular. With just about every computer …

Apple confirms that OS X Lion will ship Wednesday

Apple has confirmed that OS X Lion will be released July 20, 2011.

Chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer mentioned the ship date in the company’s earnings call Tuesday. Apple earlier had said only that the OS would ship in “July.” …

Apple delaying MacBook Air refresh to wait for Lion OS?

Apple plans to wait until its new Lion operating system is out in July before releasing new MacBook Air models loaded with refreshed hardware, according to a report by AppleInsider. Just a week ago, reports were circulating that Apple would …