The latest iteration of the popular laptop features solid state storage technology, instant-on responsiveness, up to seven hours of battery life and an incredible 30 days of standby time. "MacBook Air is the first of a new generation of notebooks that leaves behind mechanical rotating storage in favor of solid state flash storage," explained Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Apple debuts next-gen MacBook Air"We've take ...

It probably won't come as much of a surprise to many that Apple customers are the happiest computer users - indeed, they're widely mocked for extreme evangelism. But a new survey from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) shows that Apple's received the highest ever rating given to a PC manufacturer for its devices, and that this applies even amongst first-time users who can't possibly be describe ...

Apple  CEO Steve Jobs' supreme confidence in the iPad as a"magical device" seems to be coming true for Apple, with the company announcing Monday that it has sold its first million of the devices -- and in less than half the time it took for consumers to snap up that many iPhones three years ago. Apple also said consumers have downloaded 12 million iPad apps from the App Store and about 1.5 million books fro ...

Apple’s most devoted fans congregated on Saturday morning at stores around the country to pick up their latest object of desire: the eagerly anticipated iPad. Lines stretched for a few blocks in the morning hours at Apple stores in New York and San Francisco. Blue-shirted Apple employees passed out free snacks in the chilly early air. At 9 a.m., they greeted each buyer entering stores with an applause and f ...

In 10 years of reviewing tech products for The New York Times, I’ve never seen a product as polarizing as Apple’s iPad, which arrives in stores on Saturday. “This device is laughably absurd,” goes a typical remark on a tech blog’s comments board. “How can they expect anyone to get serious computer work done without a mouse?” “This truly is a magical revolution,” goes another. “I can’t imagine why anyone wil ...

Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, is selling more ad spots to big companies like Wal-Mart Stores, Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo. But the site’s pages are also home to countless ads from smaller companies that can be funny, weird or just plain creepy — those suggesting you are, say, eligible to get a free iPad because you are exactly 26 years old, or entreaties to see what your offspring would ...

For all the hoopla surrounding it, however, the question is whether the iPad can achieve anything close to the success of the iPhone, which transformed the cellphone and forced the industry to race to catch up. Apple is positioning the device, some versions of which will be available in March, as a pioneer in a new genre of computing, somewhere between a laptop and a smartphone. “The bar is pretty high,” Mr ...