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mac-nz has one of the largest selections of Apple Mac news and in New Zealand, covering Apple Mac hardware, Apple Mac software and Apple Mac and iPhone accessories, to make it easy to find the most up-to-date reviews and information on Apple Mac and Mac-related products.

Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Mac Pro — what we got
This is what we wanted, this is what we got — Photoshop in the cloud — Messing around inside a Mac — Jony Ives' new title — Mac games sale — Apple TV 5.4 beta adds iTunes Radio, Conference Room Display... read more
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Hands on the new Mac Pro
Hands on with the new Mac Pro — New MacBook Air benchmarked at Macworld Lab — Apple to increase Bluetooth integration in iOS 7, OS X Mavericks — New TweetDeck for Mac — Half-a-million new iTunes created daily... read more
Monday, 17 June 2013
Futurology 287
Alien planet should not exist — World's wind turbines to cross the 300 gigawatt mark — Ancient Roman concrete to revolutionise ours — And the world gets hotter and hotter — Liposuctioned fat yields important stem cells — Human population rises — How common is your birthday? macnz announcements: tips and the Mac/iOS Grey Lynn Sessions... read more
Friday, 14 June 2013
New MacBook Airs benchmarked
New MacBook Airs benchmarked — Intel's Haswell CPU — 12 things you didn't know about Mavericks — Mavericks test suite environment — Mavericks' core tech — Mavericks gets giant 27-inch iMac wallpaper — AirPort Extreme pulled apart — AirPort Utility updated... read more
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Mavericks 'n' Macs
OS X 10.9 Mavericks — Engadget and Macworld look closely at the new Mac Pro — MacBook Air benchmarks shows it surprisingly fast — Apple Design Award Winners... read more
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
New Macs
New Mac Pro — MacBook Air — new AirPorts... read more
Monday, 10 June 2013
In San Francisco
In San Francisco for WWDC — Apple doing well in China, environmentally — Civ dirt cheap — New Sim City for Mac delayed further... read more
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Futurology 286 ~ Twitter maps
Twitter maps — Why cities are the human future — Finally, a possible Concorde successor — Six thousand sets of twins — Google glass but way more subtle — Benefits to atomic testing — Evolutionary baby names — Robots for disaster fetch-and-carry — Mind-controlled exoskeleton, helicopter — Sporadic service... read more
Friday, 07 June 2013
Apple timing
Apple timed its bond sale perfectly — A new Mac Pro — iPhoto alternatives — Chance to win iWork templates — How to correct colours in Final Cut Pro X — Mail Pilot for Mac Beta — Protestors about Apple and tax at London Store — Dropbox for Mac beta adds photos — THX vs Apple... read more
Thursday, 06 June 2013
OS 10.8.4, iTunes, Aperture ...
OS 10.8.4 — iTunes bug fixes — Aperture — Top ten WWDC keynotes — Next-gen Thunderbolt — TextWrangler and BBEdit — QuarkXPress 10 — Super tough ruggedised Flash drive — Analog for Mac... read more