Following on from our discovery back in January that Apple was recruiting for System Engineers to bring 802.11ac Wi-Fi to the Mac, a new report has apparently given the first physical evidence of this in the form of pictures of a new Broadcom 802.11ac combo card for the Mac. The picture comes from TonyMacx86 (via 9to5Mac) and apparently shows a Broadcom PCI-E card with WLAN and Bluetooth that offers support for 802.11ac wireless, sometimes referred to as ’5G Gigabit Wi-Fi’. The card is a similar shape and size to the existing wireless cards that are found in the iMac.
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Rumor: Pictures Of Superfast 802.11ac Card For Next-Gen iMac Appear
Rumor: Brand New MacBook Air May Appear Next Month
A new MacBook Air could be on the cards for a release next month as stock supplies of the existing models of MacBook Air have been significantly reducing a third party sellers. According to AppleInsider, Amazon.com have run out of stock of the 13 inch MacBook Air with 256GB storage, and then 11.6 inch Air is heading that way as well. This observation runs parallel to other Apple resellers such as MacMall who also are seeing low stocks.
Third party sellers of Apple products are often the first to display stock shortages when Apple runs down production existing models of an item in preparation for the release of a new version. Certainly with WWDC set to be held in June, it is likely that Apple will be debuting a new version of the MacBook Air with Intel Haswell processors and upgraded graphics performance.
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New Solid State Storage Options Have Been Added To iMac
Apple has today added two new storage options to the recently redesigned iMac, giving more flexibility for users who are looking to use solid state storage. The company has now made the iMac available with a solid state drive of either 256GB or 512GB in size, adding to the current Fusion drive offerings (Via MacRumors). The upgrades, which replace the 1TB SATA Hard Drive, are available for $300 and $600 respectively. This is the first time that the 21 inch iMac has been offered with only SSD storage having previously only been available with a 1TB Fusion drive. The 27 inch iMac was previously available with a 768GB SSD but the storage choices now expand with the 256GB and 512GB SSD offerings.
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Rumor: New MacBook Pro And MacBook Air To Launch In June At WWDC
Apple will apparently be making some significant updates to its laptop line-up at the Worldwide Developer Conference in June of this year, according to a new report from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo, who has provided several pieces of accurate pre-release information in the past, is saying that Apple will be launching new versions of the MacBook Air and the Retina Display MacBook Pro, both including the latest Intel processors, codenamed Haswell. The analyst also suggests that Apple will be continuing to produce the non-Retina Display version of the MacBook Pro due to the popularity of the device in in developing markets.
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Apple Releases OS X 10.8.4 Beta For Testing
Apple has released the next update for the Mac operating system to registered members of the Mac Developer program for testing. The seed comes in the form of OS X 10.8.4, which is the next significant update set to be applied to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The beta is the first appearance of 10.8.4 which comes around two weeks after the public release of OS X 10.8.3.
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New Trojan Hits Mac Web Browsers
A new piece of adware is apparently circulating which affects the web browsers on OS X devices, causing them to display advertisements on webpages with no ad code implemented. The report on the new Trojan comes from Doctor Web, a Russian security firm (via TNW), who report that the Trojan which is called Trojan.Yontoo.1, can inject code to Chrome, Safari and Firefox browsers which causes them to display advertisements.
The Trojan works by utilizing a variety of websites, sometimes displaying innocuous content like movie trailers, and tricks users into downloading what they think is a video plugin called Twit Tube. Instead of a movie plugin, the program then downloads a piece of injectable code for the Chrome, Safari or Firefox browsers, which then causes ads to display on any pages to which the user browses. The ads are targeted towards the site that is being browsed, as in the example given by Doctor Web, the ads for an iPad appeared on the Apple website.
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Apple Releases OS X 10.8.3
Apple has today released the next significant update to the Mac operating system in the form of OS X 10.8.3. The update which has been in beta testing for a number of months, brings with it the ability for users to redeem iTunes gift cards via the camera on their Mac. In addition, Boot Camp, the Apple platform for running Windows on the Mac, has received a number of enhancements, including support for systems with hard drives of 3 terabytes in size and extended support for Windows 8.
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Apple Releases New iMac With Wall Mount Adaptor
Apple has today released a new iMac model with a minor modification in the form of a VESA wall mount adapter incorporated into the rear of the device. The new model utilizes a wall or desk mounting VESA-compatible arm instead of the aluminum stand that regular models are shipped with (via MacWorld). The VESA customized iMac is available in both the 21 inch and 27 inch versions of the iMac and costs $40 (£36) to have the option included with a new iMac purchase.
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Rumor: Latest OS X 10.8.3 Beta Brings Support For Advanced Mac Pro Graphics Cards
A new version of OS X 10.8.3 contains support for a new NVIDIA graphics card that is destined to be included in the new version of the Mac Pro which will reportedly be released this year. According to a report by MacRumors, the new OS X 10.8.3 beta, which was seeded to registered members of the Apple Developer Program for testing yesterday, contains support for the Quadro K5000 graphics card. The Quadro K5000 was unveiled by NVIDIA last year but has, as yet, not been released.
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Apple Attacked By Hackers
A new article today reports that Apple has been targeted by the same group of hackers which attacked Facebook last week, according to Reuters. The article says that a small number of Mac computers owned by Apple employees were compromised by the hacker attacks by exploiting a flaw in Java. Apple was apparently not the only company affected by the attack but the details of other companies were not offered.
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