While reviews for the Retina display MacBook Pro have been mostly glowing, some early adopters of the machine have reported image retention issues with its high-resolution screen. Posts by users over on Apple’s Support Communities describe image “ghosting” – a faint image of a window or graphic that was previously open for as little as 20 minutes can be seen temporarily on the desktop before fading away.
Apple fan Art Matsak has created a fantastic resource for anybody with even the slightest interest in the history of the Cupertino company and its late co-founder Steve Jobs. Whilst reading Walter Issacson’s official biography of Jobs, Matsak realised that many of the events described in it were available to watch on YouTube, so he decided to create a web-based archive with the videos organised by the book’s chapters.
If you’re the proud owner of a new Retina display MacBook Pro, you’ll want to show off that stunning screen with some high resolution wallpapers. So, for the sixth post in our wallpapers series we’ve put together a collection of ten images that we think will look fantastic on Apple’s latest notebook. And of course, these wallpapers can also be used on other Macs – in most cases they are available to download in a number of different sizes.
Ahead of OS X Mountain Lion’s public debut next month, Apple is inviting selected retail employees to test the new release before it hits the Mac App Store. The Cupertino company sent an email to Genius Bar and Creative employees that granted access to the software through Apple’s AppleSeed testing program.
If you’ve ordered a new MacBook Pro with Retina display and you find that its 15-inch screen just isn’t big enough for all the tasks you need to perform – despite featuring over 5.1 million pixels – then you’ll be pleased to know that it will power another three external monitors via Thunderbolt and HDMI.
Providing you are a registered Apple developer, you can now watch all of the Session Videos from this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which took place last week. There are a total of 113 videos available to watch via Apple’s website and iTunes, and they cover topics such as iCloud, Game Center, Gatekeeper, HTML5 and Xcode.
Until my new MacBook Pro arrives on my doorstep, I’m currently using an 11-inch MacBook Air (hooked up to a Cinema Display) as my everyday machine. Although its Core i5 processor isn’t the best available, because of its solid-state storage, this machine is super fast. Not as speedy as Apple’s latest MacBook Air’s, however, which feature SSD drives 217% faster than their predecessors!
Apple has released a new TV advert for the third-generation iPad which highlights both the versatility of the device, and the stunning quality of its Retina display. Titled ‘Do It All’, the commercial shows an iPad being used to send email, read a book, edit a video, watch a show, create a painting, study biology, and more.
At an event held yesterday in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled ‘Surface’, a tablet PC designed to compete with Apple’s genre-defining iPad. Described as the “ultimate stage for Windows”, the Redmond-based company will be releasing two models of the device – one with an ARM processor running Windows RT, and one with an Intel processor running Windows 8 Pro.