HP is reportedly ready to ship its MacBook Air competitor, the HP Ultrabook. After last month’s D9 conference where CEO Leo Apotheker confirmed “there’s a whole new product refresh coming out”, anticipation for an ultra-slim HP laptop is at an all-time high. DigiTimes corroborated the story today by confirming two or more Ultrabooks are ready to ship. Can HP actually compete with the Acer UX21 and MacBook Air?
Tagged ‘os x lion’
OS X Lion is Apple’s next-gen operating system, and all signs point to it landing in the next few days. So what’s it bringing to the party? Well, gesture controls, better apps compatibility, a new way of keeping track of everything running on your Mac, and more.
Read on for all the mane features.
It’s om nom time, so stop what you’re doing and tuck into everything from this morning right here in the lunchtime lowdown news roundup.
UPDATE: OS X Lion will cost £20.99 in the UK, we’ve confirmed.
Apple VP Phil Schiller just confirmed that OS X Lion will be launching in July. It’s a 4GB download and will only be available through the Mac App Store – so for machines capable of running the current Mac software, Snow Leopard. Schiller said that it will cost $29.99 (£18.30), and will come under the typical multiple machine license used on the store.
Apple’s WWDC 2011 keynote is going down right now, and first up is a demo of how the next version of OS X, Lion, will bring more fluid, touchscreen-style controls to your desktop.
Apple’s Craig Federighi demonstrated how mission control integrates with more advanced pinch to zoom gestures. You can now intelligently and fluidly zoom with two fingers in Safari and other apps, and in Apple’s browser, even swipe page by page through your internet history.
The tall tell sign of an Apple product refresh has long been either inventory shortages or refurbished price cuts. Now priced at $829 (£503), down from $849 last week, the refurbished 11-inch MacBook Air sits at a 17 percent discount. We’ve heard rumblings the 2011 MacBook Air could see an Intel Core I upgrade or possibly even the iPad 2’s A5 processor — assuming Apple’s alleged departure from Intel to ARM proves true. Will we see new MacBook Airs announced next week?
The latest MacBook Air is just seven months old, but in the world of Apple that’s a time table indicative of a product refresh. The real surprise here is that instead of using Intel Core I processors like the new MacBook Pros and iMacs, the 2011 MacBook Air will sport the A5 processor — the same processor inside our beloved iPad 2.
Apple has outed the invite for WWDC 2011 and invites attendees to join it “for a preview of the future of iOS and Mac OS X”. So that’ll be iOS 5 and OS X Lion then but now reports are suggesting that iPhone 5 won’t be outed there as recent version of the iPhone have been. Jim Dalrymple at The Loop says his sources are telling him that WWDC will be a software show, not a hardware event this year…