News: 15" MacBook Air possibilities, Apple financial analysis, the open-source ALAC, and more!

Written by Benny Ling | 01 November 2011
Posted in Apple

The MacBook Air already comes in 11 and 13-inch varieties, but what consumers really want is a 15 inch version of the MacBook Air with all the power of a 15-inch MacBook Pro (or perhaps just the larger screen real-estate. If the rumours from sites like MacRumors are true, we could very well see a much thinner 15" Mac laptop in the near future.

Apple has 30% more employees than it had this time last year, and it's still one of the most profitable companies on the planet. A report from Fortune says Apple has 60,400 employees — and with 6.62 billion dollars of profit over the past year, that's around $110,000 of profit per employee. What's even more impressive is that Apple has one seventh the number of employees as IBM, yet generates over 13 times more profit.

The Apple Lossless Audio Codec was introduced in 2004 with iTunes 4.5, and now, seven years on, Apple has made the ALAC open source under an Apache 2.0 license. The Free Lossless Audio Codec (better known as FLAC) is very similar, but perhaps more widely supported at the moment.

According to OS X Daily, there are actually two types of LCDs shipped with MacBook Airs — one made by Samsung, and the other by LG. Here's the catch: with the default settings, the Samsung display looks better. No problem, as the issue (if you notice it at all) is easily fixed with a few lines in the Terminal.

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