Apple Hardware

Apple today updated its popular MacBook with a new, durable polycarbonate unibody design featuring a brilliant LED-backlit display, a glass Multi-Touch trackpad and built-in battery for up to seven hours of battery life. Inheriting technology and design features from the MacBook Pro line, the new MacBook is an ideal consumer notebook for students and new Mac users, and is available for $999.

Apple today introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to use Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch technology. Pioneered on iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to navigate using intuitive finger gestures. Instead of mechanical buttons, scroll wheels or scroll balls, the entire top of the Magic Mouse is a seamless Multi-Touch surface. Magic Mouse comes standard with the new iMac® and will be available as a Mac accessory at just $69.

Apple® today unveiled an all new iMac line featuring brilliant LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminum enclosure. The new iMac line, starting at $1,199, is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors for up to twice the performance.* Every new iMac ships with a wireless keyboard and the all new wireless Magic Mouse, the world’s first mouse with Multi-Touch technology pioneered by Apple on the iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpad.

iPhone OS 3.1 has certainly been a sore update for Apple. From issues with Exchange, to extreme battery drainage and now "coma mode" - something obviously went horribly wrong. While Apple is now investigating the battery problems and has explained the issues with Exchange, they have been rather silent about the "coma mode" bug which is plaguing many iPhone 3G customers including myself.

Rumors of a 'tablet-like' device from Apple in the coming months are getting hotter. While previous rumors have reported that Verizon has been tapped for providing data service for the tablet, MyAppleGuide has learned that Apple is moving away from making the device exclusive to one carrier. The company is said to be also offering it without the need to have a data contract with a cellular service provider (à la the iPod touch).

Digitimes reports that a bunch of tech companies including Apple Inc are gearing up to include micro-projectors in their hand held devices. This would allow video on these devices to be displayed on any surface rather than confining it to a small screen.

Apple® today announced that it has sold over one million iPhone™ 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch. In addition, six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first five days since its release.

We've been hearing rumblings about a total retake of the Apple TV since last year, (they say 3's a charm) with a new Wii-like remote. A slew of patent application filings published on Friday show that Apple  is quite interested in such a device. Apple's "remote wand" first appeared in a patent filing last May and resurfaced again in early March with even more details. However, last Friday saw 5 new patent applications related to the remote wand and methods in which it would interact with electronic devices such as the Apple TV. For example, possible feature of the remote wand is the ability to take a person's finger print and load custom settings or preferences on the controlled device.

Today Apple revamped the entire MacBook Pro line to introduce more powerful machines at lower prices. The MacBook Pro family now includes all unibody aluminum notebooks including the 13" machines. Every MacBook Pro now includes a built in battery, two USB ports, one FireWire 800 port and is expandable to up to 8GB RAM. 

Over the weekend, Austrian site Benm.at revealed some UI files that were unearthed in the iPhone 3.0 beta that hinted at video editing features in Apple's next generation iPhone. While we have not yet verified the presence of the files they discovered, we can confirm that video recording will be coming to the the next generation iPhone.