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    Blu-Ray for MacBook Pros

    By Numberzz, in OSx86,

    Today, Fastmac released an upgrade to the DVD drives in Apple's latest computers. The upgrade is a bit much for the average user, $1000, but if you're in the movie business this is a great choice. Fastmac is offering the Blu-Ray upgrade on a lot of recent(and not-so-recent) desktop and laptop computers.
    iBook G4
    iMac G5
    iMac Intel
    MacBook Pro (17-inch)
    Mac mini
    PowerBook G3 Pismo
    PowerBook G4 Titanium (667 Mhz or higher)
    PowerBook G4 Aluminum

     

     
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    Apple's MacBook Pro Goes Gold

    By REVENGE, in OSx86,

    As the long awaited update to the Titanium Powerbook G4, Computer Choppers will soon release the all new MacBook Gold, complete with 24Kt Gold exterior, a matching gold colored and re-etched keyboard, and a diamond encrusted Apple logo to top things off.
     
    "Better get out that CheckBook Pro", as one engadget user quiped.
     
    Source: Engadget
  • Numberzz

    iPod Classic and Nano Updates

    By Numberzz, in OSx86,

    Today, Apple updated its iPod Classic and Nano with software update 1.02. You can update your iPod by connecting it to iTunes. MacRumors' users report that it has many fixes including:
    - Improved Cover Flow
    - Faster menu navigation
    - Compilation Album Art displayed only once in Cover Flow
    - Video Out Fix
     

     
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  • Numberzz
    It seems as though Apple might be preparing to release the iPhone SDK to developers soon. A poster on the Blackfriars’ Marketing blog said that people need to wait for the for the Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard release later this month before you stop caring about the iPhone platform. Apple hasn’t shipped an SDK yet, not because Apple is evil, but because the iPhone is a Leopard device. The iPhone was open to third-party software from the day it was released as long as coders stuck to writing within the limited Safari environment and didn’t try to write native applications. Many hackers took this an invitation to crack the iPhone on their own terms.

     
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  • Numberzz
    Today, Apple has ordered many 3.2GHz Intel Quad Core Xeon processors. The 45-nanometer chips are indeed the successors to those used in the existing Mac Pro. Pricing leaked out of Intel in August would have them selling for over $1000 each, however, making for some expensive Apple desktops given that each Mac Pro would need 2 of these chips. It would also require that Apple update the Mac Pro to have a 1600MHz front-side bus. Apple's current system is its custom 8-Core Mac Pro, which has 2 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors running on a 1333MHz front-side bus and selling for just under $4000. Mind you, this is with 1GB of RAM. Apple anticipates selling so many of these machines, that other PC manufacturers would barely have enough supply of the 3.2GHz chips to announce availability of these rival machines.

     
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  • Numberzz

    ZFS Support in Leopard

    By Numberzz, in OSx86,

    Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will officially support ZFS, albeit restricted to a read-only implementation with which no ZFS filesystems can be modified. Developers receiving the latest ZFS preview are allowed full read and write capabilities under Leopard, including the ability to create and destruct ZFS pools and filesystems. The developer release is a sign that Apple plans further adoption of ZFS under Mac OS X as the operating system matures. It's believed that ZFS can eventually replace HFS+ as the default file system for Mac OS X. Unlike the upgrade from HFS to HFS+, ZFS is not a small improvement to today's technology, but is a completely new approach to data management. It claims to provide "simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability."
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    What is ZFS? A Comparison Site
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    Leopard Ship Date

    By Numberzz, in OSx86,

    AppleInsider states that Apple has chosen October 26th as Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's shipping date. Currently, Apple has only said that it plans to ship this update to its Mac OS X operating system in October. As of today(Thursday the 4th), Leopard's code had not yet been finalized and a Gold Master had not yet been declared. However, the operating system in recent weeks has become very close to this status with the last full builds including only one known issue. The GM should be released to developers within 10 days in order to reach that date. According to tradition, Apple has chosen the last Friday of the month to release this latest major operating system update.
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    Preview Evolves

    By Numberzz, in OSx86,

    The simple PDF and image viewer that it was in Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has become much more than what it used to be. Today, Appleinsider has written a guide on what is new in Preview 4. As Preview's new graphics editing features fill out in Leopard, it almost becomes frustrating that the free little app isn't a full blown Photoshop. Preview also handles PDF editing features, which will no doubt irritate some for not matching every detail of Adobe's full price Acrobat Professional. As a free tool of Leopard however, Preview does a lot and suggests even more in its potential. Here's is a list of what is new: Appearance, Window Layout, Sidebar, Search, new Tools, Annotate Tools, Graphics Tools, Adjust Size, some Extract Tools(such as Instant Alpha).
     

    Tiger on the left and Leopard on the right.
     

    Select and extract parts of images.
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    iMac Freezing Problems

    By Numberzz, in OSx86,

    Some users are saying that Apple's new aluminum iMac is freezing, making it useless until a reboot. The issue appears to be related to the ATI Radeon HD graphics hardware and its drivers, but has proven somewhat incorrect. While some customers have said they can cause the freeze by running games, iTunes, or other programs that push the video chipset, others have had the lockups occur at seemingly random times or after running the iMac for long intervals of time. Apple is aware of the issue, but hasn't yet responded with a permanent fix. Both the 1.0 and 1.1 iMac Software Update packages released since the iMac's August launch have been for important bug fixes, both of which were centered around video drivers, but none of these included a fix for the freezing issue.
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    Return of the Newton?

    By Numberzz, in OSx86,

    A reference to an "iPhone Extreme" has been found on Apple's website. Within the HTML code for the feedback form is a hidden variable called "product" which contain the value "iPhone Extreme." Unfortunately, that's all the rumor has to tell. The speculation is that "iPhone Extreme" could represent some new product that is in the pipeline, a new name for the current iPhone if a cheaper version is released with less features is released, or, as the name suggests, a new Newton-like PDA device. This also could also be nothing at all.
     

    The HTML code where the reference was found.
     
    Credit for finding this goes to Tom over at the iPhoneBugList, who saw the reference while attempting to interface his own site with Apple's iPhone feedback forum.
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