Last month Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts that he felt no pressure to converge laptop and tablet markets.

On May 6, CNET released a new tutorial aimed at helping Mac users rectify a potential security problem in the OS X 10.7.3 in which a user's password can be written in plain text in the computer's log file if they are using older legacy FileVault data encryption technology.

Sometime in the next few months, Apple will release the long-awaited follow-up to its Lion operating system, OS X 10.8, or Mountain Lion.

In an effort to compete with Apple laptops and computers, PC makers have continually been improving their services to a sect of the market that many say is underserved by Mac computers - avid gamers.