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B&H now has the new 12″ MacBook available for pre-order. The new MacBook was announced last month and features the new Force Touch trackpad, a single USB-C port and 13mm thin form factor at only 2 pounds. It is expected to ship this month. Check it out here at B&H Photo.
Along with the new 12″ MacBook, Apple updated the 13.3″ MacBook Pro Retina model last week. Unlike the 12″ MacBook, the MacBook Pro models retain all of their ports, including two USB 3.0 ports, two Thunderbolt 2 ports, HDMI and an SD card slot. [Read more…]
LaCie looks to be the first company out of the gate with a new USB-C external drive that is compatible with Apple’s new MacBook. [Read more…]
Apple has always been one to push its latest generation of hardware into the next generation by excluding features rather than including them. The current generation of Mac models dumped optical drives a couple years ago, much to the disappointment of many users.
As it turned out though, Apple was right. Most of us don’t need an optical drive in our daily computing needs. We have iPhone and iPads for music and movies, and data is more efficiently transmitted over a network as opposed to burning a CD or DVD.
With the latest MacBook, however, Apple is taking its mantra one step further by removing most of the ports and leaving only a single USB-C port. [Read more…]
Apple took what felt like forever to make a meaningful update to the last generation of the Mac Pro. The big, aluminum tower had been the symbol of the professional Mac user since 2003 when Apple released it with the Power Mac G5. When Apple switched to Intel chips, it became the Mac Pro in 2006 and received periodic updates through 2010.
When Apple made the 2012 Mac Pro update, many professional users flipped out over the incremental updates and the failure to include modern I/O options like USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt, a technology that Apple had been pushing hard in its laptops. A Facebook group entitled “We Want a New Macpro” surfaced and became a rally point for thousands of professional users – the most vocal of which were heavy use video editors.
Apple seemed to have received the message that impatient professional users were leaving (or threatening to leave) for a more modern hardware experience on Windows workstations. Shortly after the 2012 refresh, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that a new Mac Pro would be delivered in 2013.
Then, at WWDC in June 2013, Apple unveiled the new Mac Pro. The shock of the design quickly led to memes all over the Internet, likening the new machine to everything from trash cans to coffee makers. [Read more…]
Apple has released Final Cut Pro X 10.1.4, which adds native MXF support as well as several other updates.
The complete list of updates in Final Cut Pro 10.1.4 is as follows: [Read more…]
Action Life Media has released its mCAM for the iPhone 6 Plus. The mCAM camera body features an aluminum body with a more traditional camera grip and offers 37mm wide angle/macro combo lens, along with a tripod and accessory mount and a 180° external mic. [Read more…]
Apple has issued an update to Digital Camera RAW to version 6.01, which adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’11.
You can download the update from Apple’s website.
B&H now has multiple configurations of the new 27″ iMac with Retina 5K display available for pre-order. While the base model is only $2494, I think the one to get is probably the 4GHz Core i7 with 4GB VRAM and only 8GB RAM for $2999. Then pick up some aftermarket OWC or Crucial RAM for a fraction of what Apple charges. Check out all of the configurations here at B&H Photo.
Olloclip has released its 4-in-1 camera lens for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Previously, Olloclip released lenses for ealier iPhone models and the Samsung Galaxy S5. [Read more…]