With Firefox 5, Mozilla shifts to a faster release schedule, emulating the lightning pace at which Google’s Chrome gains version numbers. Version 5 debuts mere months after Firefox 4, and Mozilla promises that future editions will arrive with similar speed. But based on Firefox 5′s paltry slate of notable new features, I’d say this [...]
Apple’s iPad 2 will launch officially tomorrow, but the reviews are up a day early. The iPad 2 is clearly an evolutionary upgrade to the original design, having slimmed down from 13.4mm to 8.8mm, and dropped a few ounces from 1.5 pounds to 1.3 pounds. As expected, the iPad 2 now features a dual-core A5 [...]
Steve Jobs boasts that most of the new 2011 tablets are no match for the original Apple iPad, he has a point. Currently, only the Motorola Xoom (Verizon Wireless) ($599-$799, 3.5 stars) shows enough promise to compete with Apple’s tablet. RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, HP’s TouchPad, and Samsung’s Honeycomb Galaxy Tab could also be contenders, but [...]
The addition of Intel’s latest-generation Sandy Bridge processors has boosted the performance of Apple’s new line of MacBook Pros by between 13% and 53% faster than their predecessors. Speedmark 6.5 tests administered by Macworld found that the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro with a 2.3GHz Core i5 dual-core processor earned a score of 140, versus its [...]
While some iPhone 4 customers have started receiving their new phones–including some Macworld editors–Apple’s latest smartphone doesn’t officially go on sale until Thursday morning. That’s not the case with one piece of software designed for that phone: iMovie for iPhone appeared on the App Store late Wednesday night.