Category: 712: New MacBook Pro, Bill Russell, Apple Media Event March 2nd, FaceTime App Now Available, Mac OS X Lion Preview

I will be on vacation starting on Sunday so you will see some guest authors here in Kibbles & Bytes, but it will be Ben holding down the fort for the Kibbles team over the next couple of weeks. I’ll be heading down to Jamaica for 10 days of relaxation, reggae and reading. I’m taking…

Tossed into the myriad of Apple updates yesterday, was the biggest sneak peak of Lion–the next version of Mac OS X–Apple has given to date. With the release of a developer preview build, Apple demoed several of the operating system’s new features in greater depth than at the ‘Back to the Mac’ event last year.…

In the midst of yesterday’s MacBook Pro updates, Apple quietly debuted version 1.0 of its previously beta FaceTime video calling software. The app–which was introduced at last October’s ‘Back to the Mac’ media event–landed in the Mac App Store yesterday for $0.99. Strongly affiliated with the FaceTime HD cameras featured in the new Pros, the…

This Wednesday “*The Loop,*”:http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/02/23/apple-announces-ipad-2-event-for-march-2/ reported that Apple had issued invitations to a media event next Wednesday the 2nd. The event, which will be held at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, is widely speculated to mark the introduction of updates to Apple’s iOS platform and potentially the iPad. The not so subtle imagery accompanying…

This is a fun bit for me to write for this week’s final Black History Month profile. Bill Russell is the Boston Celtics incarnate. If you think about the Celtics you have to know about #6. I have a big autographed photo of Bill Russell in my house with his huge hands holding all of…

This Thursday, Apple released significant updates to the MacBook Pro family. The entirety of the line received state-of-the-art next generation Intel Core series processors, enhanced AMD graphics, Thunderbolt I/O technology and FaceTime HD cameras. After nearly a full year without updates, Apple boasts the new models of MacBook Pro are twice as fast as the…

_Dear Friends,_ Happy Birthday Steve Jobs! Yesterday was Steve’s birthday and with it came the latest iteration of the new MacBook Pros. Ben will go over all the details of these new powerhouse laptops but I wanted to give a shout out to Steve on his birthday. Apple also held their shareholder’s meeting this week…