2010 was a big year for Apple, as it saw the debut not only of the iPhone 4, but the iPad. There were also some new MacBook Airs and a 12-core beast of a Mac Pro. Your top 10 stories from Infinite Loop follows.
Ars Technica reviews the iPad: Six Ars staffers, four days, one new Apple product—inside is everything you wanted to know about the iPad, plus a whole bunch of stuff you didn't know that you wanted to know. We did everything: watching, listening, reading, gaming, and working with the iPad. Here's what we learned.
Ars reviews iOS 4: what's new, notable, and what needs work: Apple's new iOS 4 offers some highly requested new features to iPhone and iPod touch users. Ars took a look at the new OS to ferret out some of its most notable (and questionable) qualities.
iPhone 4: the Ars Technica review: The iPhone 4 is finally out, and many potential buyers are wondering if Apple's newest device is all it's cracked up to be. Ars took the new iPhone for a spin to test calls, battery life, the new cameras, FaceTime, HD video, and all-around speed.
How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23 years ago: There are a lot of similarities between Apple's iPad and the mobile computing devices—known as PADDs—used in the Star Trek universe. Ars spoke to designers Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, and Doug Drexler to find out the thinking and inspiration behind the PADD and how closely the iPad represents a real-life incarnation of that dream.
The future of notebooks: Ars reviews the 11" MacBook Air: Steve Jobs called the new MacBook Air models "the future of notebooks." We gave the 11" MacBook Air a week to prove him right, and for some users, it might be true.
Bumpy road to multi-core: Ars reviews the 12-core 2010 Mac Pro: What has twelve cores, twenty four threads, a brand new GPU, and still doesn't run Final Cut Pro that much faster than its predecessor? If you guessed "the 2010 Mac Pro," you'd be right. Still, despite the FCP let-down, this is a monster of a machine.
Ars answers your burning questions about the 11.6" MacBook Air: Ahead of our full Ars review (coming soon!), we decided to answer as many reader questions as we could about the 11.6" MacBook Air. Come on in to get our first impressions about the display, heat, performance, and more.
The 21st century guide to platform trolling: Apple edition: Are you a Windows user seeking ammo with which to rebut your Apple-loving friends? Search no longer: here's our 21st century guide to trolling Apple and Mac OS X.
Parallels Desktop 6: The Ars Review: For decades, Apple users have dreamed of playing Windows games on their Macs at reasonable speeds. At long last, Parallels 6 realizes that dream. Benchmarks inside.
Insanely great? Ars reacts to the Apple iPad: The Ars crew weighs in on the iPad announcement with a mix of quick takes and more extensive thoughts. Read on to see what John Siracusa, Eric Bangeman, Jon Stokes, and other Ars editors think of Apple's latest.
Ars reviews the Apple TV 2.0: little, black, different: After a few weeks at fat camp, the Apple TV returns as a new device. Not only is it incredibly small and affordable, it also has some major changes in available content—for both the better and worse. We gave it the Ars treatment in our latest review.
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