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  • TH3L4UGH1NGM4N

    What is white on the outside yet still gpu powered on the inside with the words “Mac® Edition” etched on the side?

    Well our friends at Sapphire Technology has taken the AMD 7950 that quite a few users here at InsanelyMac have managed to get working and created a Mac Pro geared version of the card. Now you may look and say “hmm.. already got mine working why read about this one?” Aside from the cute white shroud and accentuated grooves in the shroud itself, there are BIOS differences which cuases this card to diverge from similarity with other 7950s alike.
     
    This Sapphire variant of the 7950 is without a doubt based on the original 7950 that hum along at 850MHz with its sizeable 3GB of GDDR5 memory, the wide lane 240GB/s memory bandwidth, and a memory clock ticking at 1250MHz. As by news from PCGamesHardware, AMD does have intentions have releasing this card to the market of consumers with a price tag of $450. The IO port layout on the backside of the card is your standard DVI – HDMI – miniDP x2 layout found on other 7950s as well. If you do have intentions of dropping this into a Mac Pro (though I feel you readers would much rather do so in your Hackintoshes), be certain that you have the two six pin adapters that will be needed to feed this hungry little guy.
  • Ed

    Apple releases iOS 6.1.1 for iPhone 4S

    By Ed, in OSx86,

    Apple has today released an incremental update to iOS 6 for iPhone 4S users. iOS 6.1.1 addresses battery and 3G issues that some iPhone 4S users were experiencing after "upgrading" from iOS 6.0 to 6.1: an issue so widespread that Vodafone in the UK was issuing alerts to customers to avoid updating to iOS 6.1.
     
    Problems ranged from overheating to rapidly draining batteries as well as intermittent 3G performance.
     
    Note that this update is only available to iPhone 4S users: iPhone 5 users may have to wait for an update, some of whom are also reporting 3G issues on iOS 6.1.
  • Ed
    Apple has sent letters to resellers across Europe informing them to place their final orders for Mac Pro machines by February 18th as Apple will no longer be selling the professional towers from March 1st onwards in Europe.
     
    The reason behind the unusual move by Apple is due to the aging Mac Pro failing to meet an un-specified criteria from Amendment 1 of Regulation IEC 60950-1; an international safety standard for electrical equipment.
     
    This could be taken as either good or bad news for the fate of the relatively neglected Mac Pro: naysayers could argue that this is the beginning of the end of the Mac Pro as Apple prepares to wind up production, and other territories may follow in ceasing sales of the high-end Mac.
     
    However, far more likely it's a simple case of Apple having something else up its sleeve later this year as already promised by Tim Cook in an e-mail, coupled with the fact that it doesn't really affect Apple given the Mac Pro is such a niche product in its line-up these days and we're only talking about the European market, not the whole world.
     
    Check out the letter from Apple to its European resellers:
     
     
  • buoo

    [PMPatch] UEFI patching utility

    By buoo, in OSx86,

    We'll never stop working in the Developers Corner!
    CodeRush is working hard on his utility to patch UEFI BIOS PowerManagement modules to be compatible with MacOS X SpeedStep implementation.
    The utility works very well with a lot of motherboards, but he is still working to improve it.
    Testers are required to help him!
     
    Working topic link
  • Mr.D.

    If you are looking for a (virtual) ton of online storage, check out Mega. A free membership will give you a staggering 50GB of online storage. That's seven times more than SkyDrive, 10 times more than GoogleDrive and Amazon CloudDrive and iCloud, and 25 times more than DropBox - assuming you don't jump thru all the hoops to get up to 18GB, which is still 64 percent less than Mega is offering. For free.

    Attachments:
    Mega is run by the same people that hosted MegaUpload. If you'll remember last year when that site was taken down by the US Government for DMCA violations. Kim Dotcom has worked out a pretty interesting way of avoiding legal problems this go-around. The encryption is done on YOUR machine, so what Mega is storing for you is an encrypted file. They don't have the decryption key - you do. What this means is that when the government comes knocking on their door, they will cooperate with law enforcement and turn over your data. Your encrypted data that they cant decrypt. This does nothing to stop the fuzz from coming after you, but it protects Mega from anything illegal you do.
     
    I created an account and am currently awaiting my validation email. Reports from Gizmodo, ZDNet and Forbes, Mega have reported 'overwhelming demand' for their service and Mega will be 'working on more capacity'. Kim Dotcom reported over 1 million subscribers the first day. When I get a chance to test out the upload and download speeds, I'll post more below.
     
    UPDATE!
     
    The activation email took nearly 4 hours to arrive. I am guessing that either there is a huge demand that they didn't correctly anticipate, or a Kiwi (the New Zealand national bird) flew it to the United States for me. The first thing that popped up in my browser was a statement telling me my browser is out of date and that I should upgrade to Chrome. My browser may be out of date (Waterfox 15.0) but I am not 'upgrading' to Chrome. Time will tell if that affects my speed. I am uploading Gimp starting at 14:00 MST and I'll let you know when its done.

     
    SECOND UPDATE!
     
    Nothing happening. According to Gizmodo, Kim Dotcom has said that speed will improve shortly. I can only imagine that it will since it has nowhere to go but up. Yes that is 5 hours of elapsed time with NO PROGRESS at all. I'm giving up and I'll try back next week... or next month.

     
    THIRD UPDATE!
     
    So I saw the success of others and decided to take my account for a spin:

     
    Looks like Kim Dotcom was right about getting the speed issues fixed. I have a pretty fat broadband pipe (15Mb/s) with a fairly consistent upload of ~ 1500Kb/s and the upload speed that is shown above is better than I get on my SkyDrive or Google Drive. If you do the math it appears the upload is using my full upload speed so whatever speed limits that may crop up for me, it looks like they'll be on my end. So far I am pretty impressed.
     
    Has anyone here gotten a Mega account yet? Reply below!
  • Ed
    Version 10.6 of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, ended 2012 as still the second most popular Mac operating system, beaten only by the current version, Mountain Lion, and just edging its successor, Lion, which sits in third place according to stats from netmarketshare.com for December 2012.
     
    Despite being originally released in 2009, Snow Leopard is still a favourite amongst many Mac users, including many x86 enthusiasts, thanks in part to its stability and optimisations, but also arguably due to a lack of killer features from successive versions of Apple's desktop operating system, not to mention the slow evolution towards a more iOS-like look and feel, which may not be to every Mac user's tastes.
     
    Apple even took the step of re-introducing the boxed copy of Snow Leopard to its Apple Store just a couple of months ago; a move that surprised many given the company's forward-thinking approach of ditching physical distribution of its last two major versions of the Mac OS in favour of digital downloads, let alone reselling an outdated version.
     
    Let us know if you're still sticking with 10.6 or how you feel about 10.7 and 10.8 compared to 10.6. Are Snow Leopard users hindering the progress of Apple's desktop future by creating demand for an outdated OS? Or does Apple need to re-think its desktop OS strategy and analyse why users are sticking with Snow Leopard?
  • Alessandro17
    Hey all you MacModders out there, it's going to be that time of year where we announce the GRAND PRIZE WINNER of MacMod of 2012 !!!
     
    Prize(s) have not been determined yet, and we will announce what and how many prize(s) we will be giving away.
    ATM we have collected $100.00 and we are considering 3 prizes consisting of Newegg.com Gift Cards.
    If you would like to contribute, please PM PunkNugget, he will give you his PayPal details.
     
    If you want to get that chance to win, OR if you want that special MacMod build to win then go on that person's MacMod posting and cast your vote by replying on their post: You get my vote for MacMod of the YEAR! Announcement of the winner(s) will be made January 5, 2013.
    (All votes will end December 31, 2012).
     
    So please do vote!
  • TH3L4UGH1NGM4N

    Uh oh.. there goes another one

    Things seem to be shaking up in the foundation of the Apple again as Bloomberg< reports yet another termination. This time around it appears Apple’s Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, Richard Williamson. Williamson is the executive head of Apple’s infamous Maps that was recently debuted to the public with the iOS 6 release. Much to the dismay of many Apple lovers worldwide with the new integration of the lackluster maps, it does not come as a grand surprise to see the departure of the head of Internet Software and Services.
     
    It’s also been noticed that Apple has not found a direct replacement for Williamson but are reported to be looking for maps experts outside of the Apple campground. May we finally be able to properly find our next hangout spot?
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