‘iPod touch on steroids’—Yet another interesting take

Whether you want to call it a Mac tablet or a Mac touch tablet or the iPod touch on steroids, there are lots of interesting artist renderings of what people think or hope the next insanely great Apple product will be.
MacFormat (via Cult of Mac) has published an image that, for whatever reason, strikes a [...]

OWC adds SuperDrive notebook upgrades

Other World Computing (OWC) has announced today new OWC Mercury SuperDrive Internal Upgrade Kits for all MacBook and MacBook Pro (15 inch) models.
“The new OWC Mercury SuperDrive Internal Upgrade Kits offer faster read/write performance than our previous upgrade kits, as well as burning several media types (including the widely popular Dual Layer DVDs) faster than [...]

There are beautiful Mac rigs and then there’s…

LifeHacker has published a short, well imaged write up on a reader’s Mac-tacular Lair, which as you can see from the pic below more than lives up to this billing.

However, don’t take that single snap as the final thousand or so words on the Mac-tacular Lair—there are 13 more photographs (flickr) detailing the rest of [...]

Previous generation iPod nano for $79 [best iPod deals]

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the Apple Store is offering the previous generation 4GB iPod nano for $79. That’s the same capacity, price, warranty and free shipping as a new iPod shuffle, which doesn’t have a display. These units sell out very, very quickly so don’t hesitate even if you just [...]

Best Mac deals: New, not used $999 MacBook Air

Apple and its authorized resellers have been making efforts to clear out stocks of older, last generation Mac models, but this is their biggest push to date.
You can a new, in box, never used MacBook Air—Apple’s most thinnovative notebook—for $999. That’s the same price Apple charges for a refurbished unit.
Or, if you value performance and [...]

Steve Jobs ‘too weak’ to attend town meeting

Steve Jobs is sick. Steve’s designing new world beating products in his spare time. Steve’s negotiating with Verizon. Steve’s coming back in June. Steve’s everywhere except visible and still news is filled with Steve, Steve and more Steve Jobs.
Today? No exception.
Fortune reports that the lawyer representing the Apple CEO before the Woodside, CA town [...]

How to: Star Trek sounds on your Mac

We’ve already shown you how to turn your Mac desktop into the LCARS interface and now we’re back to add a soundtrack to those delicious, deep-dish visuals.
You will need three things: Unsanity’s 1.) Application Enhancer Version 2.5 (download APE, free) and 2.) Xounds Version 2.5 (download Xounds now, demo, $12), as well as the appropriate [...]