Year: 2010

11.6-inch Apple laptop coming?

Posted by | Sep 24, 2010 | , |

Quanta has reportedly landed orders for 11.6-inch MacBooks from Apple, reports “DigiTimes” (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100923PD222.html). Shipments of 11.6-inch MacBooks are expected to top 400,000-500,000 units in 2010, the article says.

Quanta is expected to ship a total of 13-13.2 million notebooks in the third quarter, says “DigiTimes.” That’s down 3-5% from 13.7 million units shipped in the second quarter. The company shipped 3.6 million notebooks in July and 4.4 million units in August.

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‘MacVoices’ looking at taking control of PDF Pen 5

‘MacVoices’ looking at taking control of PDF Pen 5

Posted by | Sep 24, 2010 | |

On the new MacVoices (“MacVoices”), Michael Cohen, the author of the brand new “Take Control of PDF Pen 5” book, starts out by reviewing the history of the PDF, a file format most Mac users encounter every day, but may not fully understand.

He explains how and why it was developed, why not all PDFs are created equal, and some things you can’t natively do with them. PDFpen 5 from Smile solves those problems, and Cohen takes us on a tour.

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Info needed on account management software for the Mac

Posted by | Sep 24, 2010 | , |

Our next Category Review will look at account management software for the Mac. If you use or know of such goodies, drop me a line (dsellers@applecentral.com) no later than Wednesday, Sept. 29.

Migration Kits appear on Friday and round-up Mac solutions for specific industries and areas as dentistry, engineering, sales, etc. Also, if you have a particular migration topic you’d like us to cover, drop me a line, as well.

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