Apple's new Mac Pro has a replaceable socketed CPU

The new Mac Pro is truly a uniquely designed desktop unlike anything anyone has seen before. Yet, the fact that this compact computer is one of the first fully-solid state workstations in the market (meaning no moving parts), makes some potential buyers nervous.

But fear not, the most important components of the Mac Pro can be replaced and upgraded quite easily. The RAM and, most surprisingly, the CPU can be replaced if need be. The fly in the ointment is that the SSD drives and the graphics cards are permanent. 

Source: ExtremeTech

Apple and China Mobile strike deal to bring iPhones to world's largest mobile network next month

Apple and China Mobile today announced they have entered into a multi-year agreement to bring iPhone to the world's largest mobile network. As part of the agreement, iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c will be available from China Mobile's expansive network of retail stores as well as Apple retail stores across mainland China beginning on Friday, January 17, 2014.

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Apple's Holiday ad focuses on what's most important

Oh, look it's another moody teenager buried in his iPhone while life goes goes on around him. Instead of participating in key holiday momenets and bonding with his family, he seem to be sulking and sending Snapchats. But wait, not everything is what it seems. The new holiday ad by Apple is titled 'Misunderstood' and it cleverly reminds us that sometimes the technology isn't as important as how you use it to capture and share the stuff that really matters.

Final Cut Pro X gets update to support 4K, new Mac Pros

With the availability of the new Mac Pro starting today, Apple's Final Cut Pro X application is getting an update to be able to manage 4K monitors as well as work with the new hardware. A ton of features coming to FCP have been long awaited by many users who were otherwise underwhelmed by the intial feature set of the revamped Final Cut Pro. Compressor and Motion have also been updated in order to better manage 4K content and  Motion is now tuned to work with the new Mac Pro and its dual AMD GPUs.

Source: Engadget