Moving on, he stated that Apple's retail stores also had a record quarter (noticing a trend?), with about half of all Mac buyers in stores being first-time Mac owners.
But a Bloomberg story this week avers that officials who worked at Freddie Mac at the time deny having received any such advice.
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"If all the authority were fully implemented, the federal government would directly fund, own, and lend to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the first time since the companies were created, " he said in a note to clients sent out Sunday evening.
Granted, there was a time when the Mac maker faced a similar list of challenges.
Centralized backup for multiple systems on the network, including very intuitive, native support for Apple Time Machine on Mac OS computers.
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Mortgage backed securities backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were once upon a time considered excellent collateral, as good as Treasuries.
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What we found was that at the same time that Freddie Mac was tightening those credit standards that is making it harder to refinance, the company was also going out into the market and betting against homeowners' ability to refinance and not just small bets.
When Hertzfeld, who now works at Google, went to the Apple store, he found that Apple did indeed update the Mac Pro, though stage time at WWDC was devoted to faster new MacBook Air notebooks, updated MacBook Pro notebooks and a new high-end MacBook Pro with a high resolution Retina Display.
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Apple did license its Mac operating system for a short time after Steve Jobs was fired, but Jobs ended those deals shortly after returning to Apple.
One person can watch and record TV on a Mac, and at the same time a second person can watch and record a different channel on a PC.
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Many of us already use what is called 'virtualisation' technology to run different operating systems at the same time, like the Mac users who also have Windows on their computer.
GOG.com has worked for more than a year on getting these games ready for release--more than half of which are available on Mac OS for the very first time today, including greats like Syndicate, the Ultima series, or the Wing Commander games.
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Every time I buy a new Mac computer, I'm delighted by the amazing superiority of the new machine over its predecessor.
Criminal hackers are spending more time investigating security flaws in Mac computers, Reuters reports, as Apple gains further market share in desktop computers from PC makers like Dell, HP and Lenovo.
In fact, the only thing they'd probably have to worry about would be the low-margin mini really cannibalizing thes sales of their non-Intel, non-DVR higher-margin iMac and Power Mac products (at least for the time being).
After the PowerBook got transformed into the MacBook Pro, the iBook into the MacBook, and the iMac and Mac mini got Intel makeovers, it was time to attack the pro desktop segment, a place where only Intel's Core 2-based Xeon "Woodcrest" processors could manage.
How are those kids going to find the time to rewrite their program for the Mac?
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And even if Mac OS X is installed, developer should spend time to support A5 on Universal Binary Applications.
The iPad is going to be a bigger seller during holidays, graduation, and back-to-school time, similar to an iPod or Mac.
"We hear from consumers all the time that they want to see more Mac products from us, " said Rory Dooley, Logitech senior vice president and general manager of the Control Devices business unit.
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He did not always get it right the first time, either--the first Mac lacked enough memory, was a commercial failure and led not only to layoffs but to Jobs' own ouster in 1985. 2000's PowerMacG4 Cube was also a high-priced flop.
At the same time, Patently Apple has learned that the Mac maker has patented a new way to charge the iPad by using a specially designed Smart Cover.
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The crew at TUAW claim they've heard from sources that a new Mac mini will be unveiled with an aluminum finish, a Time Capsule-esque "lip, " and a SATA optical drive that can be customized as a second HDD instead.
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If you later add or delete songs from the music library on the Mac, the changes will be duplicated on the iPod the next time you plug it in.
But by the time that a Windows PC did almost all of what a Mac did (albeit worse and with many more bugs and holes) at a significantly lower price then Apple was relegated to a backwater of the market with, what was it, 4% market share?
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Also as previously rumoured, Bloomberg reports that Apple is pulling people from the Mac team to work on iOS in order to get it done in time, and that Ive has been encouraging collaboration between the software and hardware teams -- which, as Bloomberg notes, have previously been operating in separate silos.
Amid the Web site's offerings of wild burgundy snails and lobster mac-and-cheese, we found only one cupcake option at the time of our order: lemon "Winter Wonderland, " made by Two Hearts Bakery in San Francisco.
The drives are also Mac formatted, making them ready for immediate use with a Macbook and 100 percent Time Machine compatible.
But Mac Pro users have been forced to use the same-old machine for quite some time.
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