Appletell | Apple, Mac, iPhone, iPod | News, Rumors, Reviews, How-Tos

Subscribe to our content for free: (?)
Get our Daily Email
More Mac Pro Headlines

‘08 Apple Back-to-School Promo Biggest Ever?

by Mark Rowland on May 30, 2008 at 07:50 AM

This coming Monday, Apple is expected to announce their 2008 Back-To-School Promotion, and, according to Apple’s senior Vice President Ron Johnson, it is the biggest promotion of its kind “ever”.  Specifics on the promo have yet to surface, but the iPod Touch and MacBook Air are probably going to be… Continue Reading »

First Customer Receives their Open Computer

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Apr 29, 2008 at 12:06 PM

A Gizmodo Reader has reported that they have received their Open Computer from Psystar and they included a video clearly showing the boot of the machine. My conclusion? Money wasted. Psystar is making money off of the OSx86 project, and this is something you could do yourself in a day.… Continue Reading »

Mother’s Day Apple Gift Guide

by Josh Holat on Apr 21, 2008 at 09:55 AM

How can you really show your mom that you love her this Mother’s Day?  With an Apple product, of course!  So if you’re wondering what you can get for the rapidly approaching May 11th, look no more, you can find it all here! 1) Mom’s love photos and memories, so… Continue Reading »

FireWire jumps to 1.6 Gbps

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Apr 9, 2008 at 09:37 AM

Symwave, a semiconductor maker, has announced the FirePHY-1600, which doubles the speed of FireWire to 1.6 Gbps. Current FireWire 800 only manages 800 Mbps. FirePHY-1600 is fully backwards compatible with Firewire 400 and FireWire 800, and the speed increases are dramatic. According to Macworld, Symwave says that in under 5… Continue Reading »

Apple secretly fixes Mac Pro sleep issue, refuses to admit it

by Patrick Lutz on Mar 31, 2008 at 06:31 PM

A recent firmware update released by Apple has apparently solved the reboot-on-wake issue that has plagued the 2008 edition of the Mac Pro since it was introduced just prior to the Macworld 2008 Apple event in January. However, Apple does not mention the fix in its explanation of the update’s… Continue Reading »

Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.3

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Mar 30, 2008 at 12:45 PM

Mac Pro owners received an EFI firmware update to 1.3 yesterday. The latest update is available right now through Software Update, or from the downloads section of Apple.com. The update “fixes several issues to improve the stability of Mac Pro (Early 2008) computers.” Once you’ve downloaded the update, the updater… Continue Reading »

Mac Mini modded into a Mini Mac Pro

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Mar 17, 2008 at 06:55 AM

In perhaps the best Mac mod I’ve ever seen, Hideo Takano took the Mac Mini and made it into a mini Mac Pro. Perhaps this is the midrange tower we’ve been waiting for? Takano took a 2.33 GHz Mac Mini with 2 GB of RAM, outfitted it with a 500… Continue Reading »

2008 Mac Pro video card issues

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Feb 5, 2008 at 10:26 AM

As always, early adopters will find issues that Apple needs to fix - especially with new hardware. The 2008 Mac Pros were an unexpected release, as they came before the Macworld keynote. The new Mac Pros didn’t have a new casing - in fact, they look exactly the same as… Continue Reading »

Latest Mac Pros can use PC graphics cards?

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Feb 4, 2008 at 03:15 PM

A user in the French MacBidouille forums claims that he was able to install a Saphire ATI Radeon 2600 card into his new Mac Pro without issues. The card had not been tested alone, but this is very strong evidence that an unmentioned update to the Mac Pro is the… Continue Reading »

NVIDIA working on first GPGPUs for Macs

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Jan 25, 2008 at 02:49 PM

One of the biggest complaints I have about Apple’s hardware is the lack of decent graphics cards in their computers. It took until this month for Apple to put a decent card, the NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT, into the Mac Pro. As for the MacBooks, they don’t even have dedicated graphics… Continue Reading »

« Prev Page Next Page »
Special Features