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• 12 November 2012

• News: Apple releases update for mid-2012 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro

  Apple has released a software update for its mid-2012 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and 15in Retina MacBook Pro. The update includes bug fixes and graphics performance updates, as well as USB compatibility improvements.

• News: Mac-accessory Roundup: Speakers, mics, stands, and more

  Do you need better speakers for your Mac? How about more memory? Or maybe you just need some laptop protection. You're in the right place, as we've got a roundup of new Mac-complementing gear. Here are the new gadgets we've come across recently.

• News: Weekly Wrap: Reviewing the newest iPads, mastering software, easy backups

  Sandy kept us from publishing a Weekly Wrap last Saturday. But we’re back now, and our Macworld Doppler radar shows a lot of huge stories from the week gone by. It’s cloudy with a chance of MacBooks. Or more accurately, iPads and Mac minis. But MacBooks sounded better.

• 08 November 2012

• News: Tablets beat out PCs on holiday shopping lists

  Respondents largely opted for tablets over PCs in a survey asking which computer they had on their holiday wish list.

• News: Clear expands list-making app from iPhone to the Mac

  A Mac version of Clear, the popular list-making app originally for iPhone, launched on Thursday with iCloud support, allowing users to track and update their to-do items from multiple devices.

• News: HP urges consumer customers not to downgrade new PCs to Windows 7

  Hewlett-Packard (HP) has advised consumer customers not to downgrade new PCs equipped with Windows 8 to the earlier Windows 7.

• News: Lenovo sees profit growth sag in fiscal Q2

  Lenovo said Thursday its net profit for the fiscal second quarter increased by only 13 percent year-over-year, marking a shift from the high profit growth the company has previously seen.

• 07 November 2012

• News: Apple not likely to ditch Intel chips for Macs in near future

  There’s a certain sense to recent rumors that Apple may trade the Intel chips in its Macs for the company’s own processors. Apple is, after all, the poster child of a company that wants to control its own destiny: It makes its own hardware and software, and is a proponent of the “walled garden” ecosystem exemplified by its iTunes Store and App Store. Even more recently, Apple has taken deeper control of its processor design; the iPhone 5’s A6 chip uses Apple’s own custom ARM-based design, rather than taking a standard ARM core and just dropping it in, as the company has with past iOS devices.

• News: Mac OS X 10.9 data spotted in analytics logs across the web

  Apple appears to be testing Mac OS X 10.9, according to data appearing in analytics logs.

• News: Thales Australia completes NGD pilot program

  Thales Australia and the department of defence have successfully completed the Next Generation Desktop (NGD) project pilot program.

• 06 November 2012

• News: Apple's 'ambitious processor plans' to involve ditching Intel in future Macs?

  Apple is investigating ways to ditch Intel chips in future Macs and replace them with its own ARM chips like the ones in the iPhone and iPad, according to Bloomberg.

• 02 November 2012

• News: The Apple family tree: Apple platforms through the years

  If you asked someone to name Apple’s computer platforms, you’d probably get three answers: Apple II, Mac, and iOS. But the true history of Apple’s computing platform heritage is much more rich and varied than most people realize.

• 01 November 2012

• News: Windows 8 uptake remains listless after public launch

  Driven by millions of upgrades, Windows 8's global usage share climbed by a third last month, but the new OS's adoption pace remained lethargic compared to that of its predecessor three years ago.

• 31 October 2012

• News: LG introduces 23-inch touch monitor for Windows 8

  For users who want a regular monitor, but still want to control Windows 8 using touch gestures, LG Electronics has introduced the Touch 10 monitor.

• News: Microsoft sells 4 million Windows 8 upgrades

  A total of 4 million Windows users have upgraded to Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 8 during its opening launch weekend.

• News: What Apple's executive reshuffle means for the products you use

  The executive shuffle Apple announced late Monday is the kind of drama that we in the tech press usually only get from watching Game of Thrones. But as interesting as it is from an inside-baseball perspective, it's worth remembering that Apple's focus is, as always, on products.

• 30 October 2012

• News: Google's Chrome Remote Desktop sheds beta tag, adds new features

  Google’s Chrome Remote Desktop, a free browser add-on for Chrome is officially out of beta, and to celebrate, the search giant has added two new features to the service.

• News: ScreenFlow 4 launches with new effects, workflow improvements

  Telestream’s ScreenFlow—the much-lauded app for capturing videos of what's happening on your Mac's screen—has been upgraded. ScreenFlow 4, which launched last week, adds a bunch of new features for creating special effects and smoothing the screen-capture workflow.

• News: Lab Tested: 2012 Mac mini gets a nice speed boost

  Last week, Apple refreshed the Mac mini with faster processors, faster USB 3.0 ports and new graphics. The Macworld Lab was able to get our hands on the new Mac mini systems and our Speedmark 8 test results show the new machines are between 31 and 37 percent faster overall than the Mac minis they replace. The new systems were faster in all of our tests, but processor intensive tests results were only slightly higher. Interestingly, the hard drive tests were much faster on the new systems, though they still use 5400-rpm hard drives.

• 29 October 2012

• News: Apple CEO: Expect delays for new thinner iMacs

  With the 21.5in iMac due to launch in November, and the 27in iMac launching in December you may be hoping to be in with a chance of getting one of Apple's new thinner iMacs in time for Christmas. Your chances don't look good.

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