Computerworld: How the 17-inch MacBook Pro won me over

Computerworld’s Ryan Faas was skeptical about Apple’s largest laptop model. But a little time with the 17-inch MacBook Pro convinced him to rethink his stance.

Apple boosts iPod orders for current quarter, trims Macs slightly

Apple has increased orders for most of the members of its iPod family over the past month or so while trimming Mac orders only slightly -- a sign the company's business is standing its own amid a weakening economy, one Wall Street analyst says. F...

iPhone's Raging Thunder: the Developer Interview

TUAW was lucky enough to spend a little time recently chatting with Anders Nilsson of Polarbit.com. Polarbit is an independent game developer based in Europe. They recently ported their mobile Raging Thunder racing game to the iPhone and released it as a free beta to the jailbreak community. (It's hosted at the Big Boss repository.) Built around the iPhone's accelerometer, Raging Thunder really expresses the fun, interactive potential of the iPhone as a gaming platform. Read on past the jump for the full transcript of our interview.Continue reading iPhone's Raging Thunder: the Developer InterviewRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments

New iPhone 2 build; iTunes video rumors; Safari on Samsung L870

Apple on Wednesday released beta 6 of its iPhone SDK and also issued a new build of iPhone Software 2.0 to select developers. Meanwhile, the company is said to be warming up to variable TV show pricing as it primes a French iTunes video store for lau...

Sources: Apple planning biggest back-to-school promo yet

Apple as early as Monday is expected to announce its 2008 back-to-school promotion, which will encourage students to purchase a new Mac through some of the biggest incentives in the company's history, AppleInsider has learned. Company senior vice ...

Ask TUAW: Backup Boot Camp, RARs, OS X in foreign languages, syncing Outlook to iPhone, and more

This time in Ask TUAW we'll be looking at questions about backing up a Boot Camp partition, using OS X with other languages besides English, syncing an iPhone to a work Outlook account, customizing input devices and much more.As always your suggestions are most welcome, and questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you're running and which version of OS X, as certain answers will vary between different Macs and Tiger vs. Leopard, etc. (we'll assume you're running Leopard if you don't specify). And now, on to the questions!Continue reading Ask TUAW: Backup Boot Camp, RARs, OS X in foreign languages, syncing Outlook to iPhone, and moreRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments