A letter from Bob Mansfield: Apple is back on EPEAT.

Bob Mansfield, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, to Retire

New manufacturing technology enables vertical 3D NAND transistors, higher capacity SSDs

This is still years away, but when it does happen, it will be amazing. Can you imagine an iPad with 1TB storage? An iPhone? An SD card for your camera? The sky is the limit.

New manufacturing technology enables vertical 3D NAND transistors, higher capacity SSDs

Users reporting image problems with their new Retina Display MacBook Pro.

Apple is reportedly aware of the situation and is ordering new displays to replace defective ones. The bad news, it can take two or three weeks for the displays to get there.

Via Mactrast

SSD prices plummeted by 48 percent over the past year.

The Verge:

Overall, the statistics show a huge 48 percent drop in the average price of a flash storage drive. Several models finally fall beneath the hallowed $1 per GB threshold, making them a viable alternative to regular hard drives.

Good news.

iFixit tears down the New MacBook Pro 15″ Retina Display.

Apple updates its routers, Airport Express now looks like a white Apple TV.

Jony Ive: What Apple is working on now is the ‘most important’ work it’s done

Appadvice.com

Half of all U.S. households own at least one Apple product.

CNBC:

That’s more than 55 million homes with at least one iPhone, iPad, iPod or Mac computer. And one-in-10 homes that aren’t currently in that group plan to join it in the next year.

I’m in the 9% group, I’m sick.

Microsoft makes a Mustang.

Well, not exactly, they teamed up with the guys at West Coast Customs. The car is equipped with Microsoft products and technologies front to back, including changing the Mustang logo for the old Windows Flag.

Via ZDNet.