‘Hardware’ Archives

Today, Apple refreshed their $999 entry level white MacBook. Changes include a modest processor jump from 2.0 GHz to 2.13 GHz, a boost in RAM speed from 667 MHz to 800 MHz, and an increase to the hard drive capacity from 120 GB to 160 GB. Battery life is now advertized as 5 hours, up [...]

It’s time for this month’s edition of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast. This month’s episode is #2, entitled "Sedated". Josh de Lioncourt’s sound quality is not quite on par this time, for which we apologize. He was travelling and away from his usual equipment. Topics covered: Introduce this month’s panelists, including Holly Anderson, Darcy Burnard, [...]

The Mac-cessibility Podcast has been reborn as a round table discussion show, dealing with all things related to accessibility of Apple products. The show is planned to have a new episode once a month, starting with this week’s episode entitled "Reboot". Topics covered: Introduce this month’s panelists, including Holly Anderson, Darcy Burnard, Cara Quinn, Steve [...]

Today, Apple updated its entirely line of desktop Macs with significant changes, including the long anticipated overhaul of the company’s popular Mac Mini, its consumer iMac offerings, and its pro-level Mac Pro desktops. The Mac Mini has seen some of the most radical changes, given that that model had not been updated in nearly two [...]

Among its sweeping hardware releases today, Apple took the wraps off of a significant upgrade to its Airport Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule networking solutions. Both devices now offer dual-band support for 2.4 GHZ and 5 GHZ bands, allowing Macs, phones, and other wifi devices to use the band best suited for each without [...]

Amidst a flurry of new product releases this morning, Apple quietly updated their MacBook line with some refinements. The 15-inch unibody MacBook Pro, first released last October, has had a speed boost. The base model jumps from 2.53 GHZ to 2.66 GHZ, while the build-to-order option for the processor speeds jumps from 2.8 to 2.93 [...]

While not strictly Mac related, we feel that this situation is a serious problem, and could potentially effect access to printed materials and mobile devices for the blind and visually impaired at large. The Author’s Guild has taken issue with the new text-to-speech capabilities of the Kindle device from Amazon.com

The Washington University’s Accessibility Interaction and MObility Group (AIM Group) has demonstrated a technique for how the Apple iPhone could be made accessible to users who are blind or visually impaired. You can see a remarkable video demonstrating this technique by clicking the YouTube.com link. This is a very exciting advancement that shows the possibilities. [...]

Apple announced the awaited update to it’s 17-inch MacBook Pro notebook computer. The new model includes the same unibody aluminum design as the rest of the MacBook line, the same glass trackpad, up to 8GB of memory, both hard drive and SSD drive options, and extended battery life. The new model is the thinnest, lightest [...]

Today in Cupertino, Apple announced significant changes to its line of notebook computers, a new Apple Cinema display model, and new pricing for these products. The new MacBook and MacBook Pros employ a new manufacturing process which results in smaller, lighter, and more durable machines. These new MacBooks are made from a block of aluminum [...]

Apple Inc. has issued an invite to the media for an event on 14/October. The invite reads only "The spotlight turns to notebooks." It has long been rumored that Apple would release new or updated models of their MacBook line of notebook computers this month, so the announcement is not a surprise. It is also [...]

In episode #26 of the ScreenlessSwitchers Podcast, hosts Darcy and Holly are joined by Josh de Lioncourt of the Mac-cessibility site, Steve Sawczyn of the Assistive Technology Show, and Shane Jackson of the BlindWorld Blog and Podcast. The quintet discuss iTunes 8 accessibility, the new iPod Nano 4G and its speaking interface, Apple’s new accessibility [...]