Yesterday’s announcement of OS X Mavericks unveiled some pretty cool new features coming to your Mac—but Cook and co forgot to explain just which computers would support the new OS. Fortunately, Apple Insider has chatted with people familiar with the Mavericks Developer Preview to draw up a list of the Macs which are compatible with the software. Read more…
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Here’s the List of Macs Compatible With OS X Mavericks
Remember the Emotion Engine from back in the PS2 days? Well, Sony’s still on about the emotional connection its consoles will bring to gamers — specifically, that of the PS4 . And to showcase the console’s graphical sophistication, Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida played a 12-minute tech demo of Quantic Dream’s upcoming PS4 title, The Dark Sorcerer . The majority of the demo focused closely on the sorcerer in question, giving gamers an early glimpse of the nuance and hyper realistic expression capable in characters’ eyes and faces. Only a short snippet was shown on stage here at E3, but if you want to digest the entire thing, Sony’s planning to unveil the full 12-minute demo tomorrow afternoon. Gallery: Sony E3 2013: The Dark Sorcerer Filed under: Gaming , HD , Sony Comments
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Quantic Dream’s The Dark Sorcerer demo highlights PS4’s graphics power
After two long hours of tease this past February, followed by a few fleeting glimpses in May, Sony’s finally ready to show us what its next-generation PlayStation console actually, you know, looks like. And it’s… well, it’s a rhombus. A familiar-looking one. Read more…
Until now, multitasking in iOS has been fairly limited. Now, it’s going to work for all apps—and Apple says it’s going to provide background updates to all apps—and Apple says all those background cycles aren’t going to hurt your battery life. Read more…
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iOS 7 Adds Multitasking for All Apps
iOS 7 is here . It’s beautiful. You can cehck out all the details in our main post, but here is some video to see how it looks in action. You really want to see this. Read more…
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A new version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 7, was announced at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The release will feature, among a number of changes, a departure from the bubbly, skeuomorphic design that has prevailed on both iOS and OS X for the last several years in favor of flatter, more angular design elements influenced by Apple SVP of Industrial Design Jony Ive. The most front-facing part of the OS, the home screen, now has app icons that lack the dimension and gloss effect of previous versions. Design elements within the icon, like the musical note on the Music app icon, appear as a flat design flush with the background rather than a cutout like before. iOS 7 isn’t doing away completely with dimensionality, as some text elements shown in the intro video still feature embossing, and Ive emphasized that the OS focuses on “depth and vitality.” The look of several key apps in iOS 7. Many of the skeuomorphic touches are also gone from the OS, such as the textured paper in the iBooks app and the leather-bound elements in the Calendar app. Of the Game Center redesign, Apple SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi stated, “we just ran out of green felt.” Read 14 remaining paragraphs | Comments
It’s been brewing for a while, and now Apple has finally redesigned its flagship cheese grater pro desktop . The 2013-era Mac Pro has been totally redesigned with a new, cylindrical chassis and vastly upgraded internals that have been designed to last for “(another) 10 years.” At the center of the new Mac Pro is a 12-core, 256-bit Intel Xeon E5 processor with 1,866MHz DDR3 RAM capable of 60GB/s data transmission. Following the trend of the MacBooks, the new power tower uses PCIe-based flash storage, and so pro users will be relying upon four USB 3.0 and six Lightning 2.0 ports (that can take up to 6 devices per port with 20Gbps throughput) for expandability. Fortunately, for those of you who intend on placing the hardware beneath your desk, the expansion ports light up to help you find your connections in the gloom. Other connections include HDMI-out 1.4, dual gigabit Ethernet jacks, WiFi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0 and the usual pair of 3.5mm audio in and out ports. This machine is also the first Mac that’ll ship with dual AMD FirePro GPUs as standard, which’ll support 4K displays. Of course, the most striking change is in the design, which occupies 1/8th the volume of the current Mac Pro and stands 9.9-inches tall and 6.6-inches wide. The chance is thanks to a new thermal core, a triangular air duct that runs through the center of the hardware — with one huge fan mounted at the top. Presumably, this new model has also been tweaked to conform to new regulations concerning electrical shielding, meaning that the hardware can finally return to European shores when it arrives later in the year — at a (probably high) price that’s still to be decided. Gallery: WWDC 2013: Mac Pro Update: You can now check out our eyes-on of the new machine here ! Follow our liveblog for all of the latest news from WWDC 2013. Filed under: Desktops , Apple Comments Source: Apple
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Apple announces new Mac Pro with cylindrical design, 12-core Intel Xeon E5 CPU, flash storage, Thunderbolt 2.0 and support for up to three 4K displays
Apple today unveiled OS X 10.9 at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), showing off the first major revision of the Mac’s operating system since last year’s Mountain Lion . Apple has apparently run out of cat names and is now naming releases after places in California, where OS X is developed. The new OS X is thus named ” Mavericks .” Developers are being given a preview version of Mavericks today. It will be available to the general public in the fall. New features include tabs in the Finder, allowing multiple Finder windows to be drawn together in tabs. Apple is bringing tagging to documents—any tags you add to a document will appear in the Finder sidebar and in iCloud. Multiple tags can be added to each document, and these tags will allow new search capabilities. Mavericks will make life easier for users who have multiple monitors. Menus will be spread across the different displays, and users will be able to take a window full-screen on one display without disturbing the desktop on another display. HDTVs connected to Apple TV boxes can also act as displays. Mission Control has been “super charged for multiple displays,” Apple said, making it easier to drag apps and windows from one monitor to another. Read 12 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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That’s right, folks. Killer Instinct is making a return to consoles. When it arrives, the title will be exclusive to the Xbox One . “We listened, and Killer Instinct is back, only on Xbox One” said Microsoft Game Studios VP Phil Spencer. No word on an exact release date, though, so we’ll bee keeping an eye out for those details. Follow our liveblog for all of the latest news from E3 2013. Filed under: Gaming Comments
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Killer Instinct returns as an Xbox One exclusive title
Kicking off Microsoft’s announcements, the company has said that Xbox Live will start offering free Xbox 360 games for its paying members, starting this July. In the run-up to the Xbox One’s launch, you’ll be able to pick up two titles each month, gratis — if you’re an Xbox Live Gold member. If it sounds familiar, it’s because it sounds faintly similar to what Sony’s PS Plus has offered its subscribers, albeit in a limited run. The Live UI on the older Xbox 360 console will also be getting a refresh, catching up with the more modern styling we’ve seen teased on the Xbox One. Follow our liveblog for all of the latest news from E3 2013. Filed under: Gaming , Microsoft Comments
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Xbox Live will offer two free games per month starting July, includes Assassin’s Creed 2 and Halo 3