Macgasm

While we haven’t been able to find an announcement from Apple, it appears that the white unibody MacBook is dead.

The URL for the product now redirects to Apple’s 404 page, and the model is no longer listed on Apple’s Mac page:

This ends a long-running product line for Apple.

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Apple has released a pretty substantial tech bump to the MacBook Airs today, alongside the release of Lion. The rumors leading up to the release suggested that the new device would gain ThunderBolt, i5 and i7 processors, as well as a backlit keyboard.

If you’ve been holding out for a new MacBook Air, or desperately need an upgrade, now would be the time to pull the trigger. Actually, while you’re at it, pick us up one too.

As always, Apple will be shipping these new machines with Lion already installed. The big sexy cat is out of the bag.

As announced yesterday, Apple has released OS X Lion to the masses. At $29, Lion is available on the Mac App Store, and brings features like Resume and Versions, Mission Control, Launchpad and more.

Be sure to check out our review for all the details. We’re downloading Lion now, and will update the review as new information comes in.

With iCloud right around the corner many believe that NAND flash sales will dip in the near future. The reason being is that they see consumers demanding less storage for their iOS devices as well as their Mac and Windows computers. Those MacBook Airs with 64GB or 128GB of storage will start to look more appealing. Since Apple makes up 28.3 percent of the Market for NAND flash purchases, you can see why some might be worried. But fret not. One thing that might help NAND flash is bandwidth restrictions. I will delve more into that in just a bit.

With the introduction of iCloud you will be able to listen to your music wherever you are. No longer will you be restricted by your iOS’s limited storage. Right now I have to chose what I can and cannot put on my iOS devices due to the limited storage. So this is a great idea to have your music in the Cloud and accessible to you wherever you are. Well, in a perfect world this would be true.

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Well, it’s here. Mac OS X Lion has launched as the latest upgrade to Apple’s desktop operating system.

Several years ago, Apple announced that it was going to slow down the release cycle for Mac OS X. Then, two and a half years ago, Apple announced that 10.6 Snow Leopard was going to be a “stepping stone” release, allowing the company to work on technologies that would propel the desktop OS in ways it hadn’t been in the past.

Snow Leopard, for most users, was just Leopard with a different default wallpaper. As a result of the lack of “headlining” features, Apple charged $29 for the update. 10.6 required an Intel processor — Leopard was the last build of OS X to run on PowerPC Macs with G4 and G5 silicon.

One reason for dropping PPC support was that, under the hood, Apple was re-working things in a way that is quite evident in Lion. Technologies like OpenCL and Grand Central have seen big improvements in Lion, making the OS run faster on all three machines I’ve tested it on.

In fact, this new version of OS X might be the biggest change yet to Apple’s desktop OS yet, despite how familiar it may look:

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Ahead of its Q3 call, Apple has announced its earnings and sales information. Here are the highlights:

• Sales of $28.57 billion — up 82 percent year-over-year
• Net profit of $7.31 billion — up 125  percent year-over-year
• 20.34 million iPhones sold — 142 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter
• 9.25 million iPads during the quarter, a 183 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter
• 3.95 million Macs during the quarter, a 14 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter
• iPods saw a 20 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter, selling 7.54 million units
• Cash flow from operations of $11.1 billion, an increase of 131 percent year-over-year

As Apple continues to grow, its impressive presence in the retail space is all but impossible to ignore.

Over the next two months, Apple will make an even stronger push, with plans to open 33 stores. By the end of the company’s fiscal year, Apple will have 363 stores operational.

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Today Apple confirmed that more than one billion people have walked into their stores. More than one billion people have been face to face with countless Apple computers, iPods, and iPads. Apple also announced that it plans to increase its total amount of stores to about 360 by the end of the year. They were able to achieve this all only 10 years after they opened their first outlet store in Washington DC in May of 2001.

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