How Apple’s 6 billion-dollar businesses stack up

Revenue from digital media is now almost worth more to Apple -- top-line revenue -- than all its iMac, MacBook and other Mac hardware sales.

In this university’s laptop vending machine, the MacBooks are free

Philadelphia's Drexel University has installed a Macbook vending machine in the university library. The kiosk dispenses MacBooks free of charge to Drexel students, staff, and faculty, who can use the machines for up to five hours at a time.

Teardown: new 13″ retina MacBook Pro is twice as repairable as the 15″ (which isn’t saying much)

The original retina MacBook Pro, the 15" model, earned a miserly 1/10 in iFixit's repairability score. Now the teardown specialists have ruthlessly ripped apart Apple's innocent new 13" retina MacBook Pro, and the results are in.

Why a 70 degree angle is the key to selling a MacBook

Apple knows the art of seduction. By positioning MacBook screens to perfect viewing angle in its stores, the company is subtly seducing you into laying down a couple thousand dollars to take that sleek gadget home.

Before any Apple-Store lurking …

Apple kills 17-inch MacBook Pro in high-end laptop reshuffle

The 17-inch MacBook Pro is dead. Long live the MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

Apple’s MacBook behemoth met its quiet and unceremonious demise on Monday. Unlike the 13-and 15-inch versions, the 17-inch MacBook Pro did not get the refresh treatment …

New MacBook Air powers up with Ivy Bridge processors and a 512GB SSD

As expected, Apple has announced a refresh for its popular MacBook Air thin-and-light laptop, with the new model pumped up with higher CPU power and larger hard drive. The announcement took place at WWDC 2012.

The last MacBook Air was …

WWDC 2012: Apple keynote liveblog

Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off today with a keynote address from CEO Tim Cook and company. This year, Apple is expected to make announcements about  iOS 6, Mountain Lion, iCloud, and fresh Mac and MacBook hardware. …

Get ready for crazy-high resolution MacBooks & ultrabooks in 2012

Apple, Acer and Asus are getting ready to blow your mind with new, higher-resolution displays in the first half of 2012.

Taipei-based tech blog Digitimes, which has particularly close ties to the supply chain vendors of many major consumer electronics …

New MacBook Pro models on the way

Shiny, new MacBook Pros have reportedly appeared in Apple’s inventory system.

The laptops will be available soon in 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch screen sizes.

9to5mac reports that Apple will be shipping two versions of the two smaller sizes and that …

Steve Jobs’s most ambitious product: Apple Inc.

The list of iconic designs Steve Jobs made possible is long. But his most brilliant and ambitious design may be Apple itself.

Jobs, who announced his resignation as Apple’s CEO yesterday, is rightly hailed as one of the most design-savvy …

You can hack a MacBook battery from afar. Is there a point?

A seasoned security hacker who spent seven months figuring out how to hack a laptop battery disclosed his findings today at the Black Hat security conference. Charlie Miller, who specializes in hacking Apple software, figured out how to remotely control …

Why Apple killed off the white MacBook

When Apple refreshed its line of MacBook Airs and Mac minis today, the company also quietly removed its $999 13-inch white MacBook from its store. Now the least expensive MacBook that Apple offers is the updated $999 11.6-inch MacBook Air.…

Apple updates MacBook Air with Sandy Bridge processors and backlit keyboard

After months of rumors, Apple on Wednesday updated the super-slim MacBook Air laptop with the new Lion OS, Intel Sandy Bridge processor options and a Thunderbolt high-speed data port. It also returns the backlit keyboard that was perplexedly not included …

Who needs an Xbox 360? Apple tempts students with $100 app store credit

Apple today released details of its 2011 back to school promotion, which offers eligible buyers a $100 app store credit with the purchase of a Mac computer from Apple’s education store.

In years past, Apple offered an iPod as the …

Apple rumored to launch new Macbook Pros

Apple is reportedly planning to introduce new MacBook Pro laptops this week, based on stories leaking from retailers. The company may also use a new high-speed connection technology.

The latest moves show that, try as it might, Apple can’t really …