StackSocial launched its fifth ‘Name Your Own Price’ Mac Bundle earlier this week that offers up to nine apps and an online iOS development course for purchase with 10% of all sales going to charity. There are two apps and an online iOS development course that all buyers receive: MacX Mobile Video Converter ($50) PDF Converter Pro for Mac ($80) Projects in iOS E-learning Course ($147) If a buyer pays more than…

The teardown experts at iFixit have just taken apart the new 13-inch Mid-2013 MacBook Air that was announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote yesterday, and while there aren’t too many drastic changes in the internals there are a few differences that are worth noting. The team found that the PCIe-based SSD module from Samsung is smaller than the previous model’s Toshiba SATA module, which also means that the drive is not…

Aside from the “all-day” battery life that comes alongside the upgrade to Intel’s Haswell processors in the new MacBook Air, one of the other major improvements is the adoption of PCIe-based flash storage for much faster performance. The new PCIe flash will also be coming to Apple’s radically redesigned Mac Pro later this year, and undoubtedly other Macs as well. Available in capacities up to 512GB, this next-generation flash storage is up…

With the introduction of its new Haswell-based MacBook Air models yesterday, Apple revealed a strong emphasis on battery life, pushing the rated operating time from five hours to nine hours on the 11-inch model and from seven hours to 12 hours on the 13-inch model. Even with the focus on battery life, Apple was also able to bring some minor performance improvements, as seen in Geekbench 2 benchmarking results highlighted by Primate…

At today’s WWDC keynote in San Francisco, California, Apple announced new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Airs, which have been designed with battery life in mind. As expected, the new Airs use Haswell processors that offer enhanced performance and significantly improved battery life, but feature no cosmetic changes. With the new Haswell processors, The 11″ MacBook Air will now have nine hours of battery life while the 13″ MacBook Air will have a…