Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

The last test version of Windows 7 has reached a wide audience and is now believed on track for a late October release, putting Microsoft's last cards on the table as it prepares to square off against Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

MCV reports that Richard Teversham, Microsoft’s senior director of business, insights and strategy for Xbox, is departing the company to take a position at Apple. Teversham reportedly will take on an “education-related” role in Apple’s European offi…

A director of Microsoft's Xbox team is on his way to Apple. Meanwhile, the Mac maker appears to be taking its time to assure that Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update is rock solid before it's released to the public. And one of our sponsors is clearing out early model MacBook Airs for $999 and has [...]

The microprocessors that will go into future Apple products — especially the handheld variety — will need to be smaller, cheaper and more powerful while using less power. Those chips could be the result of in-house designer brainpower, not third-party suppliers: Steve Jobs’ company is in the middle of a hiring spree, according to a [...]

AppleInsider reports the Apple is preparing to introduce cheaper Macs as soon as this spring. The move reportedly comes in response to consumer buying patterns shifting toward cheaper computers, including those in the netbook category.<p class="quot…

Determined to grow its share of the personal computer market during the worst economic climate in its corporate history, Apple is tailoring changes to a pair of its offerings that will help drive down prices of some of the most popular Macs, AppleInsider has learned.

Engadget reports that a version of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 285 graphics card for the Mac Pro will be released in June. Image from Engadget The GTX 285 is currently NVIDIA’s fastest single-processor GPU, offering 240 process…

A patent application from Apple filed in October 2007 and published today reveals that the company is researching the use of carbon fiber composites for use in the exterior shells of electronic devices. Specifically, the patent application relates t…

A new patent filing discovered by AppleInsider provides some of the first public evidence that Apple is indeed exploring carbon fiber-like enclosures for future product designs, corroborating an earlier report on the matter.

Apple's fairly public plans to design a family of exclusive chips to power its next-generation iPhone and multi-touch handheld products may not fully materialize until sometime next year, according to the Wall Street Journal, which provides an overview of the matter with a few additional details.

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