Neowin News Feed for: Macintosh

Apple fan surprises Tim Cook with a vintage Macintosh, watch his reaction

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:44:01 +0000

A loyal Apple fan quickly stole a chance to surprise Tim Cook with an old Macintosh machine. The CEO was in Mumbai to inaugurate the first Apple Store in India at Bandra Kurla Complex on April 17. Read more...

Apple commemorates Steve Jobs on his 10th death anniversary with a short film

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:48:01 +0000

Apple has released a short film on its website to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Steve Job's death. The film features various quotes from Jobs and showcases Apple's journey since its inception. Read more...

Steve Jobs' job application from 1973 auctioned for $174,757

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:04:01 +0000

A job application form filled in by the former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, back in 1973 has managed to receive $174,757 at an auction. The very basic document was won by a British Internet entrepreneur. Read more...

A critical Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability is out in the wild... again

Usama Jawad — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 06:36:01 +0000

A critical zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Flash Player, which allows Remote Code Execution using a Microsoft Excel document, potentially making you lose control of your system. Read more...

Thai flooding leaves Apple with a shortage of 2TB drives

Paul Ferson — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:26:45 +0000

The recent flooding in Thailand has had some impacts upon the availability of hard drives for all computer manufacturers, except Apple, it seemed. Now, even the Cupertino company cannot source drives. Read more...

Milestone for the Mac as it reaches 5% global share

Paul Ferson — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:14:44 +0000

Apple can celebrate today, with the news that the Macintosh has reached a new milestone: it makes up over 5% of the global computing market, setting itself a new record. Read more...

Could Apple be merging iOS and OS X in 2012?

Paul Ferson — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:15:34 +0000

It's been suggested that Apple intends to make iOS and OS X more closely related with the release of OS X Lion. According to some reports, they could be considering a complete merger. Read more...

16GB RAM increase available for Mac Mini

Paul Ferson — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:53:04 +0000

Apple updated their line-up of Mac Mini computers last week and the updates have rendered the Mac Mini a surprisingly powerful little computer. Other World Computing, or OWC as they are known, can make the... Read more...

Bungie's Marathon coming for free to the iPad

John Callaham — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:27:39 +0000

The first game ever developed by Halo creator Bungie is coming to Apple's iPad tablet but in a somewhat unusual way. In an article and interview on Bungie's web site, it has been revealed that... Read more...

Why Macs look like Porsches

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:41:28 +0000

I was having a surf around the net today, looking for some news to report to all of you Neowin viewers. I happened across a website called folklore.org which provides alleged real life accounts of... Read more...

Apple Macintosh turns 25

Matthew Hopson — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:33:55 +0000

Introduced by the now famous "1984" advert, directed by Ridley Scott and aired during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on 22 January 1984, the first Macintosh is turning 25 this weekend. The Macintosh,... Read more...

Toontown Now Available on Macintosh Computers!

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:55:14 +0000

Toontown Online, one of the largest Family orientated online game worlds is now available for all you Macintosh owners. Here is the blurb from the official Toontown Site: "Calling all Toons! The best game... Read more...

Quake 4 Invasion Coming for Macintosh

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:03:29 +0000

Aspyr Media announced today that it will deliver a Mac version of Quake 4, the ever-popular first-person shooter developed by Raven Software and produced by id Software. The game, licensed from Activision, is scheduled for... Read more...

Apple's "Intel inside" Macintosh to hit shelves on June 6

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:19:11 +0000

Intel processors willi be initially adopted in AppleComputer's entry-level Macintosh PC lineup, including the Mac Mini,iBook, and iMac series, with a launch in Taiwan slated for June 6 2006,according to sources at Taiwan PC distributors.... Read more...

Intel-Based Macintosh Computers May Be Released in January

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:50:00 +0000

The first commercial Apple Macintosh computers running on Intel processors may be released a bit earlier than expected, believes UBS Investment Research analyst Ben Reitzes. He claims that Apple will have new products and content... Read more...

Google X Borrows From Macintosh

Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:55:25 +0000

Described as a "a fun late-night coding jaunt", Google Labs has just launched a new little site aimed at centralizing access to many Google services. The JavaScript/DHTML based portal allows visitors to select a Google... Read more...

DOOM 3 Coming To Macintosh

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:44:55 +0000

DOOM 3 is on its way to Macintosh, Aspyr Media announced today. Aspyr will handle the Mac version's publication, but development is still in the hands of the game's original creators at id Software. The... Read more...

Desktop Linux Share Overtaking Macintosh

Sat, 14 Feb 2004 23:56:07 +0000

Market researcher IDC expects to announce within weeks that Linux' PC market share in 2003 hit 3.2%, overtaking Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh software (as reported a few weeks ago it has fallen at 1.8%, for... Read more...

Macintosh in the land behind the 64-bit Looking Glass

Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:22:02 +0000

THE 64-BIT workstation market has been kind of quiet in the past two years. Why? Well, on one side, Pentium/Xeon 32-bit systems took over the bulk of mainstream 3-D workstation market, and on the other... Read more...

Macintosh Romance

Fri, 29 Nov 2002 03:40:51 +0000

Whilst on one of my typical romps about the internet I stumbled upon this amusing, yet bizarre article. For all those "macphiles" out there (you know who you are;)) read on. It's ok in my... Read more...