Just as Apple CEO Tim Cook promised during yesterday’s earnings announcement, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is now available to download from the Mac App Store. Priced at just £13.99 ($19.99), Mountain Lion is the cheapest OS X upgrade to date, and includes over 200 new features.
It’s not easy (or cheap) to upgrade the solid-state storage in your MacBook Air, but it is possible thanks to Other World Computing. The company is now offering aftermarket flash drives for Apple’s latest lineup of ultraportables – released just last month, allowing you to expand your storage by up to 480GB.
Adding weight to the speculation that OS X Mountain Lion will launch on Wednesday the 25th of July, 9to5Mac reports that it has heard that US and international Apple Retail Stores have penciled in overnights for the 24th of July.
Apple has just announced that it will be reversing a decision made only last week to remove all of its Mac desktops and notebooks from EPEAT – a voluntary registry for green electronic products.
Tweetbot, one of the most popular third-party Twitter clients for iOS, and certainly one of the best, finally made its debut on the Mac this week. It’s in alpha form, so it’s still a very early build. But it boasts everything you’d expect from Tweetbot, including that great user interface.
When Apple introduced the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display back in early June, the first question on everyone’s lips was “when will the rest of the MacBook lineup get one?” Recent rumors have claimed that the 13-inch MacBook Pro is next in line to get a high-resolution display, and that speculation has been backed up by GeekBench 2 benchmarks that appeared late last month.
With OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion due for public release this month, Apple has made a GM (Gold Master) version of its next-generation operating system available for registered developers to download. Although the Cupertino company does sometimes release multiple Gold Master builds of its software, the label is typically reserved for final public-ready versions.
Steve Jobs never really liked the idea of a touchscreen iMac, because he felt that vertical displays just don’t offer a comfortable touchscreen experience. And so it’s unlikely we’ll see a desktop – or even a notebook for that matter – with a touchscreen from Apple for some time. But for just $200 (approx. £130), you can purchase an accessory that adds a touchscreen to your existing iMac in just 10 seconds.
Inside almost all of Apple’s electronic devices, the Cupertino company places tiny little stickers that change color when they become moist. It does this so that when you drop your iPhone into a pint of water, you can’t wait for it to dry out and then tell Apple’s Genius Bar it stopped working all by itself.