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New Mac Minis will run Snow Leopard

If, for some reason, you don’t want to run Lion on your new Mac Mini, it appears that using a clone of a recent MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard will boot and operate the Mac Mini.  MacBidoulle cautions the Ethernet hasn’t been properly tested and the new Radeon Video cards in the high end model may...

MacBook Pro refresh coming before Christmas?

AI reports that the MacBook Pro line will receive minor processor updates before the holiday shopping season.  In fact, they say the updates should come before the end of the month. According to people with proven insight into Apple’s future product plans, the late-2011 MacBook Pro refresh will deliver marginal speed bumps to the notebooks’ Core i-Series...

Survey: 4% less likely to buy Apple products now that Steve Jobs has resigned

But that's down from 18% three years ago, according to ChangeWave Research

Click to enlarge. Source: ChangeWave Research

The series of medical leaves that Steve Jobs took before he finally resigned last month seem to have had an inoculating effect on both investors and consumers, allaying their concerns about Apple's (AAPL) future without its co-founder and CEO.

The...

Get your MacBook Air ready for Thunderbolt with EFI firmware update 2.1

Apple’s Thunderbolt hardware pieces are coming together and to get ready, Apple is updating MacBook Air firmware. The 4 MB update promises to enhance the stability of Lion Recovery from an Internet connection, and resolve issues with Apple Thunderbolt Display compatibility and Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode performance on MacBook Air (mid 2011) models. Thunderbolt parts...

Analysts scramble to raise their iPhone and iPad estimates

Hasty revisions three weeks before the end of Apple's last fiscal quarter of the year

It happens every three months. As the end of Apple's (AAPL) fiscal quarter approaches, the small army of analysts that cover the stock dusts off its spreadsheets, finds them overly conservative and starts issuing revisions. If history is any guide, the...

Tim Cook’s first anti-Jobsian move

Just a quick note on the earlier charity giving email from Tim Cook.  It was a lovely gesture and will generate millions of dollars in giving to worthy causes, no doubt. But to me, this is the first public anti-Jobs move that Apple has made since he resigned the CEO position just a few weeks...

Apple opens area of App Store for “Apps Enhanced for Lion”, begins selling Final Cut Pro 7 the old fashioned way

Cnet notes a new section just hit the Mac App Store called Apps Enhanced for Lion. Apple was a good sport too and allowed one third party app in the top two rows of apps. Update: Macrumors notes that Apple has begun selling Final Cut Pro 7 (which is likely not enhanced for Lion) the...

A portrait of Steve Jobs at 31

"There is a bounce to his step that betrays a certain youthful cockiness"

Jobs at NeXT. Photo via waybeta.com

Joe Nocera's lovely op-ed essay in Saturday's New York Times does us all a favor by including a link to a piece Nocera wrote about Steve Jobs for Esquire in 1986.

Jobs had been kicked out of Apple (AAPL), and to...

Apple CEO: A tough act to follow

In an operational sense, today won’t be any different than yesterday at Apple.  The people who help curate the sjobs@apple.com email address will probably be putting in some extra hours, the work changing around the placards is probably almost done, and it appears Apple isn’t going to be doing any sort of media tours to ‘help allay...

How Steve Jobs saved Apple

In 5:50, why he was ousted, what he learned and what happened when he came back

Source: CNNMoney

I'm particularly fond of the latest video out of CNNMoney, and not just because I get a lot of face time in it.

Steve Jobs once said that Apple (AAPL) was only a few quarters away from bankruptcy in 1996....

Apple fixes Lion video lock-ups on iMacs, improves hardware support in Boot Camp for Windows

Apple has released a pair of new updates meant to fix video-locking issues on iMacs that run Lion and improve hardware compatibility when running Windows in dual boot mode on your Mac. The iMac Graphic FW Update 3.0 is now available for download, weighing in at a paltry 482KB. Apple says the firmware update “fixes...