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Analyst: iPads, Kindles, GPS units to be cheaper in 2012updated: Thu Jan 05 2012 07:05:00

As the tough economy drags on, cost remains a leading consideration that people use to decide which mobile devices and wireless services they'll purchase.

CNNMoney: Ultrabooks could save the PCupdated: Mon Nov 28 2011 12:11:00

As the iPad eats away at personal computer sales, the PC appears to have found a potential savior in ... Apple?

MacBook Air 'doubles as a kitchen knife'updated: Thu Sep 08 2011 18:02:00

When all your kitchen knives are in the dishwasher and you really -- just really -- need to chop up some carrots, what tool do you turn to for backup?

Apple releases first Lion updateupdated: Wed Aug 17 2011 07:56:00

Rev up your Software Updaters, because Apple has released its first update to Mac OS X Lion.

Future of computing looks thinnerupdated: Thu Jul 28 2011 08:11:00

Our notebooks, ultrabooks and desktop PCs are all getting thinner -- thin enough that Kate Moss in her heroin-chic heyday could have sported something like the 13-inch MacBook Air down the runway and it wouldn't have overwhelmed her almost nonexistent frame.

Newer, faster MacBook Airs launched, old plastic MacBook killed offupdated: Wed Jul 20 2011 15:06:00

As expected, Apple has updated the MacBook Air. The super-portable laptop has now become a serious rival to its big brother, the MacBook Pro.

Apple may fill its iPhone 5 vacuum with new Macs and an interim phoneupdated: Wed Apr 27 2011 08:30:00

Apple may be changing its usual iPhone update schedule to the fall, instead of a pre-summer launch in June/July -- the news has popped up multiple times, and a source familiar with Apple's plans has also confirmed it with Fast Company.

The 10 most significant gadgets of 2010updated: Fri Dec 31 2010 07:49:00

When this year began, we were feverishly speculating about an Apple tablet, looking forward to 3-D TV sets, and optimistically waiting for the end of the cable companies' cruel grip on our wallets.

MacBook Air may fly through airport securityupdated: Tue Oct 26 2010 09:29:00

Perhaps Apple should have called its new laptop the MacBook Airport.

Apple CEO on future of notebook computersupdated: Thu Oct 21 2010 16:15:00

Apple CEO sees the new and improved MacBook Air as the future of notebook computers.

The flash future of the MacBookupdated: Thu Oct 21 2010 16:15:00

The features and size are leading many to debate whether the redesigned MacBook Air is really a netbook in disguise.

Apple's new MacBook Air: As if a laptop 'hooked up' with an iPadupdated: Thu Oct 21 2010 07:20:00

While Apple's Wednesday event was called "Back to the Mac," much of the undertones harkened back to its popular touch-screen products.

FSB: The tech catastrophe you're ignoringupdated: Mon Oct 26 2009 15:13:00

Sometimes, it may shock you to learn, journalists misjudge the scale of threats.

Review: redesigned MacBook a winnerupdated: Mon Nov 17 2008 13:42:00

With the new 13-inch MacBook looking and feeling more like the more expensive 15-inch MacBook Pro line than ever, it's harder to tell the difference between the two laptops.

Review: ThinkPad X301 still good for frequent fliersupdated: Wed Oct 29 2008 14:22:00

The ThinkPad X301 boasts the same 13.3-inch display, 3.3-pound weight, and 0.7-inch thickness as its predecessor, the ThinkPad X300.

Time.com: Apple's New Laptops to Be Lighter, Sleekerupdated: Tue Oct 14 2008 16:15:00

Apple Inc. touched up its line of laptop computers Tuesday with a minimal nod to the economic turmoil that might push consumers to be more frugal this holiday shopping season

Tiny notebook works for on-the-go useupdated: Wed May 07 2008 16:12:00

While the Asus Eee PC and Intel's Classmate and Netbook platforms have convinced us that low-cost, low-power laptops can be genuinely useful, we still long for something a little more upscale than the plastic construction of those systems.

ThinkPad crams tons of features into lightweight laptopupdated: Wed Mar 05 2008 16:35:00

We're not even two months into the new year, and we've already seen Apple's remarkably slim MacBook Air and Toshiba's update to its featherweight Portege R500.

Fortune: What makes Apple goldenupdated: Mon Mar 03 2008 09:40:00

The mass market is supposed to be dead, but you would never know it from Apple. In February the iTunes Store became the second-largest music retailer in the U.S., right behind Wal-Mart. The iPod is to music players what Kleenex is to tissue or Xerox is to copiers. Almost everything Apple makes transcends gender, geography, age, and race. An Apple Store is a demographic melting pot, with computer games for kids and a Genius Bar for their parents and so much cool stuff to touch that it's a magnet for teens and twentysomethings.

Stylish computer will impress -- while the battery lastsupdated: Fri Feb 22 2008 15:36:00

Taiwanese computer maker Asus is best known these days for the ultra-compact and ultra-cheap, $399 Linux-powered Eee PC.

MacBook Air revisitedupdated: Mon Feb 04 2008 10:59:00

Apple's new laptop, the MacBook Air, may not be the true ultraportable that many had hoped for, but it still easily breaks new ground for small laptops.

FSB: Macworld's best debut: Design tool that Flowsupdated: Thu Jan 17 2008 19:26:00

Is it just me, or does it seem telling that the innovative products coming out of this year's Macworld Expo are no longer Apple gear?

First look: MacBook Air a solid additionupdated: Wed Jan 16 2008 15:23:00

As was heavily predicted before its unveiling, Apple's new laptop, called the MacBook Air, is not quite an ultraportable but is still very small.

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