December 2012 – Bandon IT

December 6, 2012
By Aaron
Hardware, Techie news

Apple moves production to USA

Tim Cook CEO of Apple announced today that in 2013 production will begin in the USA of some of their products, previously that had been made oversees in China. Apple putting Americans to work? We salute you! CNET has a more in-depth story that can be found here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57557480-37/tim-cook-apple-to-pour-$100m-into-u.s-mac-production/

December 2, 2012
By Aaron
Hardware

The new iMac – bring your glue gun

It’s no secret that we like and work on macs. However Apple’s newest iMac to enter the playing field is not going to be a favorite to perform any hardware upgrades on. This article from Zdnet http://www.zdnet.com/ifixit-teardown-apple-makes-new-imac-as-hard-as-ever-to-repair-7000008173/ details the iFixit teardown of the new iMac, and the troubles within. I think I’ll stick with the mac minis […]