Showing posts with label MacBook pro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MacBook pro. Show all posts

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Our best guess on tomorrow's Apple special event.

(Credit: Screen-cast by verge.com/)
Commentary- Gauging on last years' apple's event, the dates tells us a-lot in accordance with the months & weeks as well. This year's apple event was more and precisely on unveiling new set of iPhones and much advanced apple's OS that gave it all on stage in apple's headquarters in Cupertino, CA. This October will again be a month of apple. By a report on (All_things_D) heavy leaks on this month's apple event have all been taken with usual grains of salt as it's typically known for it's excellent track records on apple's annual events. Am still not sure where the event will set for kick-off but what am certain about is, we should expect a-lot starting with new lines of Macbook pro together with minis, of which, most probably, November 1st will see them launched & ready to go on sell. So the event is now axed in manner. What's our best guess on items predicted to be on board?

New Macbooks together with Minis
As it is a norm for apple to upgrade it's new hardware, reports tell that new Macbooks are also on board come late November this year. Last year upgrades seemed minimal compared to this years. Key elements like processing power, high multimedia definition that supports full retina display on both iMacs and Macbooks are rumoured to be on plans. Apple, for years, is known for it's excellent prowess in giving ground breaking machines especially from the Macbook line of products. Of-course we also have the new Mac pro desktop on our prediction list, that'll be fully unveiled come end of this fall but won't surface in the coming apple event. Upgrades of it showcased earlier June this year and newer power structure was the whole motive to this very Mac pro desktop. We also expect the same upgrade to ice the cake in the coming generation of Macbook pro. Talk of ultra-fast 4k media graphics that is rumoured to take full advantage of new GPU's acceleration, new generation of intels' processor (Haswell) that will all-together bundle and come to reality on Macbooks' schematic board and also not forgetting PCI express based hardware plan that will deliver a state-of-art performance on coming new Macbooks. With additions to this, we also expect an upgrade on visual front camera display on both products -- iMacs and Macbooks, that will also pass through the show-casing event come next week on tuesday.

 
New iPads on list.
With the iPad, i can truly say there's some kind of a fever pitch that has kept many on ripples, as apple's slotting suprices and in-fact jaw dropping suprices in stores for next weeks event. New iPads are just around the corner and with all these rumours taking rounds the blogosphere, this actually tells how next iPads will have a treasure at hand even though they don't hit the 100% mark. A Series of analysis  have potentially revealed how cool next iPads will preface. Bigger screens, 9.7'' in size and better HD graphics that's x5 times faster than the previous generation of the iPad are also factors to consider. A report released by Cnet strongly tells how next full sized-iPads will maintain last years' mini kind of shape that spots sliddish angle edges and bezeled shape that's thinner in design. AllThingsD, a site well known for it's best track records of apple's products also suggest that the minis will get full retina display and take same levels with the iPad pro in crystal display. The next big surprise is whether the two iPads will include Apple's new device security based on Touch ID like the one bundled on iPhone 5s that will see it's users being able to purchase music via iTunes and as well unlocking their devices in regards to privacy. Siri's also a blast here. Apple's also taking siri to the next level, infact to the iPad where users can interact with female voice assistance, ask questions about weather, air base station, road maps and even match you results for fast lunch hour malls based on your current location. Millions have loved & as well hated Siri but for apple funs, the fact remains that Siri plans and offers broad range of enquires greater than that of Googles', just as many of you think of it as a competition disparity. Susan Bennett, a US. voice historiographist was this month kept on light by CNN for her best voice of urgency that many thought was used as iPhone's voice assistant. Am also expecting her voice to feature in iOS7 as an additional update come next week and of-course this time getting accompanied by males' too, of which am not sure who that will be. You can watch her talk and share her earlier experiences here.  



Commentary:-Other possible predictions beyond the iPad and Macbooks will include naming of prices that will tag the OS X mavericks together with it's Mac Pro in the next apple event. For divas who see music as a standing ovation, am yet to get info on iPods but possible criteria reveals iOS7 taking face but to users who only posses the 5th generation of it. iOS7 is the latest & current mobile Operating system that powers all apple smartphone devices that has of-late rolled out massively to users. OS X mavericks is also a follow-up of last years OS X mountain lion that will showcase also - not as a separate software this time, but a nailing filter that will run real-time on new Macbook pro and Pro desktops as well. Apple typically invites media to such rounds of events a week or so, before the conference and that means you should expect more pictures and point-to-point analysis come next week.

(Credit: Copyright logo by Ngache/ Tech Analyst Review)
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

What I'd like to see on this year's MacBook Pros

What the Tech Analyst would love to see about Pro's this year
(Credit: Apple)

The suspense is building and apple has to act according to it's manifesto. July last year was such a dear but not the way i expected it to be. wwdc was mind blowing, showcasing it's Macbook-pro with retina display as a punching update ever seen from previous presentations. The pro survived a heating notch by 89.9%, killing the thinner MacBook air PC with a desperate 55.5%. Great features propelled somewhat acceptance from fanatics like i who greatly wished to see last years keynote a day to remember. June 11-15th 2012 wwdc was a week everybody had been waiting for. I expected to unearth varieties especially from PC franchise upgrades. The MacBook-pro brought with it an eye catching incarnation. The 15-inch sized laptop, thicker with it's uncluttered aluminium coat glued specs of high-end design that made it a super-pro! SSDs, fusion drive legacy, retina display & with of no debate a whooping 768 Gigs of flash packed (an increase from 512 Gigs that the Air punched). This year i would love to see the pro & infact ranging from the desktop to it's laptop. Last time we saw apple debuting a DT-pro was way back in 2010. Apple, with views from many have criticized it's mode of production and i think it's high time Tim Cook shows some love to residents of California , CA.  This year, am rather obliged that Phil Schiller  will at least do me a favor if the items am to list below showcase's the world-wide-conference in style -- Here's what i would want to see!

4th Generation Network - Let the shooting star pass at glance as i pen this on screen.....I was dead wrong when i thought the 15-inch MacBook-Pro will shade light on 4G network. Apple has presumably laid hands on the iPad & forgot that the pro's also has a chip-set number to consider. off-course the iPad has embraced 4G but why should we have the Pro taking the ice-cream share of the network? I mean it's not a bad idea seeing the 4G dream landing on the big Pro! after all, do any of PC manufacturing company deployed such an idea to test?

Optional Retina Display and YES on a thinner Pro - It's high time apple up it's game by taking note of designing a thinner pro. The 15-inch Pro possess glacier outright look, elegant & perhaps higher specs but adjusting it to a thicker base gives it a stone-age design. This year i'd need to see a thinner Pro  but then having optional retina display, yeah! what i mean is, it should come in variety for consumer to opt for. Let one machine maintain the retina display while the other favor a line of consumer grouping. Not everyone needs a Mac with a killing tag of $2,199 in price. Apple, please offer a variety.

A bigger Track-Pad - Believe it or not apple's introduction to a multi-touch on a bounded small track-pad isn't epic. How do you see of a smaller track-pad especially on a bigger 15-inch Pro? Maybe technically am spoiled! Expanding the track-pad on the Pro would as well welcome more & prevail a big consumer catch.

A Larger, non-SSD Drive - pro users want larger hard-drive space. This doesn't come as a by the way but what am sure of is, if you own a laptop then am afraid you'll be invoking the spirit of downloading HD movies, photos & even high-resolution clipped videos. Currently the Pro comes with an SSD all imagined to have 768 Gigs of flash in capacity. I assume this guzzles more on power whereas Intel is facing out power hungry processors perhaps soon. Instead of i going to purchase an external hard-drive that spins at high speed & guzzles almost 30Amp of power (Mark-you am in town showing off my project to my boss) & off the Pro grinds to an halt, won't this mean incompetence?

So what exactly do i want? - It won't be fare to judge this year's apple production but the four highlighted ideas if kept in place will insanely boost apple's line of margin with a hitting scale factor, maybe to predict, 60.25%+ (up) from last years line of margin that clocked 50.42%. To sum-up everything i need an economical, robust & most likely a turning head MacBook-Pro design that will favor the whole being of what a PC needs to be because if it wasn't for Apple's team i wouldn't have touched MacBook's lineup of design.

- Wait! "I've one more thing for you today". Watch the MacBook-Pro surviving a torture through hasty conditions & off-course we want apple to maintain such a durable product like this one this year!

Commentary:- What do you need to see on this years Pro or are you happy with current pattern trend of  apple's design? have a pleasure of your casting your  stand inside the comment box.

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Avoid system loop - The EFI MacBook update is here.

31-july-2013 EFI Update
Today's News: It's thursday 31st-july-2013 when Apple just announced that it'll be rolling out it's EFI firmware update to it's Macbook Air, Macbook Pro users globally. The update comes after many posted complaints attaching glitches & disappointments they've undergone either when, surfing the web, performing system's update or playing HD movies only to be prompted with a nagging message that quotes "system point on halt, attempting critical shutdown". Others incurred no problems but unexpected closure of system apps which possessed red flags of the same. The EFI released today counts on destined area of these laptops' Air & Pro's. Most importantly red balms of battery. Apple adds you satisfaction when the battery on your laptop performs most likely above 1000 potential cycle (The cycle here takes note of a single charge, clocking 1 cycle of which later adds/counts to 1 full charge). Currently you'll need to perform the update under two phases where one seems convenient:

Phase 1 --- Through simple, Apple navigation

Convenient:  Myself, performed this a couple of times when such update came into light. I find this method rather easy than pointing your browser to eligible links which may later confirm your update unsuccessful or change in technicality. What you have to do is first check the number of cycle your system indicates on OS power management.

Click the Apple icon on-top of your OSX bar > About this Mac > More info > System Report. (Then click on power on the left side & you'll see cycle counts best displayed on the right)

Now, with regard of the cycles your system displays on power management, of-course numerics provided will tell whether your update is to be performed or not. Below 1000 (Number scale from 200>720) confirms a full update of either your MacBook pro  or MacBook air. With hopes that you've fully collected the information needed, let's perform the update (Convenient phase):

Just click on the apple logo on your OSX top, gray bar. Navigate to updates/system updates & ensure no sequence of whatever case is running at the background. Now click on update & you'll be brought to such a screen.     

Tech-Analyst review (Credit-Ngache)
Now click on install 1 item & that's all - It's that's easy. 1st phase completed. For those in need of manual update, well, I've that for you also. Am going to give this but then, you'll have to check details with your system. Just point your browser & wait as your EFI update makes relevant patches. A progression bar will be given, most probably at the periphery of your OS power management:

       ~  MacBook EFI  SMC update firmware update 1.5
       ~  MacBook Pro SMC firmware Update 1.6
       ~  MacBook Air SMC Update 1.8

                                                                                                                                                                   


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