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MacBook Air Revision Imminent, Full Penryn, More Power
Rumor hints 2GHz MacBook Air with 120GB disk
Intel Offers USB 3.0 Draft Spec
Intel releases USB 3.0 controller interface spec
Intel launches smaller SSD for netbooks, mini-desktops
Macs Are Cool, but Marketing Can't Help Linux
Psystar 'Definitely Still Shipping' Mac Clones
Why your student should take a Mac to college
Creating Coloring Book Art With Photoshop Elements Tutorial Posted
A Chip Too Far?
Intel drops Centrino from Atom brand after five months
Former Apple lawyer to pay $2.2m for cooking books
Roadworthy Printers
The Mac Night Owl: The Plight of the Apple Early Adopter
Revision3 Adds Hak5 Program to Hit Lineup Inviting Geeks and Hackers to 'Trust Your Technolust'
MacBook Air Revision Imminent, Full Penryn, More Power
PhoneNews's Christopher Price says:
PhoneNews.com can confirm that Apple is preparing to release an new revision of the MacBook Air. While that in and of itself is not a surprise to many, we can confirm some of the specifications of the unit.
Much of the MacBook Air's external design will not change. However, the internals will receive a significant revision from the initial release back in January. The MacBook Air is currently powered by a custom version of the Intel Core 2 Duo processor, from the Merom-class. That processor had been modified with a lower voltage process to conserve power.
The new MacBook Air however, will trade that CPU out for a standard Penryn-class Core 2 Duo....
To read more, click here.
http://www.phonenews.com/macbook-air-revision-imminent-penryn-more-power-4126/
Rumor hints 2GHz MacBook Air with 120GB disk
Electronista reports:
Apple's first revision to the MacBook Air will see a clock speed boost as well as a storage upgrade, according to a newly prominent rumor. The report claims the 13.3-inch lightweight portable will switch from Apple's custom-ordered 65 nanometer processors to a reference 45 nanometer, Penryn-based design. Upgrading will allegedly reduce the clock speed gap and let the MacBook Air's Core 2 Duo chip push 2GHz "and beyond," according to the leak.
However, this swap will allegedly create a power increase and require that Apple supply the system with a 60-watt power supply rather than the smaller 45-watt unit that comes with the existing model. The internal design is described as closer to that of the standard MacBook, though whether it will be based on some components of Intel's Centrino 2 platform or use a rumored custom design is unknown.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/08/14/macbook.air.update.rumor/
Intel Offers USB 3.0 Draft Spec
Macworld's Peter Cohen reports:
Intel has released part of the draft specification of Universal Serial Bus (USB) 3.0, the next major revision to the peripheral interface standard used throughout the computing world. The company has provided information on the Extensive Host Controller Interface (xHCI) to members of its USB 3.0 Promoter Group, made up of HP, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and others.....
USB 3.0 (also called "SuperSpeed USB") is expected to operate at 4.8 gigabits per second (Gbps), ten times faster than the 480 megabits per second (Mbps) theoretical maximum of USB 2.0. USB 3.0 will be backward-compatible with existing devices.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/135013/2008/08/usb3.html
Intel releases USB 3.0 controller interface spec
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
Intel has provided chipset makers with a draft specification for a USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Interface (XHCI), making good a promise it made a couple of months ago.
According to the chip giant, the XCHI will allow chipset makers to develop hardware that can communicate with USB 3.0 system software in a standardised, consistent way.
You might have thought that was the job of the chipset makers, but Intel's taken on the task itself to ensure, it hopes, the rapid roll-out of USB 3.0 - aka SuperSpeed USB. To that end, it's making the draft spec available under a licence that requires no royalties to be paid.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/14/intel_posts_usb_3_hci_spec/
Intel launches smaller SSD for netbooks, mini-desktops
IDG News Service's Dan Nystedt reports:
Intel launched a much smaller version of its Z-P230 SSDs (solid state drive) aimed at netbooks and mini-desktops....
The new SSD is based on a miniature card module that weighs just 8 grams, compared to 11 grams for the original Z-P230, which Intel announced in June.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/135006/2008/08/intel.html
Macs Are Cool, but Marketing Can't Help Linux
Low End Mac's Frank Fox says:
"I bought a Mac because it is so cool.
"It never occurred to me that I could use it to run a huge variety of software. I didn't listen to the talk about it being free of viruses. No one told me that it comes with a bunch of integrated software that handles my photos, tracks my music collection, and can help me make better home movies. I think that the people who say you can run all your Windows program using Boot Camp to load a copy of Vista, are lunatics.
"The only reason I bought a Mac is because I own an iPod, and iPods are cool. That, and I wanted to use it to play video games."
The only thing I can say, is God bless anyone like the person described above. Apple needs more people like you buying their product (just kidding).
I don't think people like that really exist, unlike Matt Asay, who wrote The Linux Desktop, Macs, and Barking Dogs. His message wouldn't be so bad, but there are dozens of people reporting this type of trash, basically calling Mac users a bunch of lemmings who have been brainwashed by Apple's marketing prowess.
You can put lipstick on a pig and call that marketing - or you can make a great product and call that marketing.....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/ed/fox/08ff/marketing-linux.html
Psystar 'Definitely Still Shipping' Mac Clones
InformationWeek's Paul McDougall reports:
In the latest sign that it has no intention of backing down in its copyright dispute with computing giant Apple, Psystar said Wednesday that is "definitely still shipping" its Mac clones. In further defiance of Apple, Psystar also this week said it is making Leopard OS restore disks available to its customers.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/6k8r2n
Why your student should take a Mac to college
The Houston Chronicle's Bob Levitus says:
It's back-to-school time again. So if you're about to send your kid off to college with a new computer, here are some reasons to make that computer a Mac....
You can check it out at:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/drmac/5937754.html
Creating Coloring Book Art With Photoshop Elements Tutorial Posted
GraphicReporter says:
It's easy to get caught up making creative projects for grown-ups like calendars, photo books, and scrapbook pages... but what have you made for the little ones lately? The next time the creative bug bites, consider converting your photos into art for the coloring book crowd instead.
For the illustrated tutorial, click here:
http://graphicreporter.com/tutorials/elements_coloringbooksketch.html
A Chip Too Far?
Fortune's Michael Copeland reports:
Could faster chips translate into slower computers? That's the sales-threatening prospect furrowing brows in every corner of the PC business, from industry titans such as Intel, Microsoft, and Apple to major centers of academe.
For decades the PC industry has juiced performance - and sales - with a regular two-step dance. First, chipmakers jacked up the speed of their latest offerings. Then the software brains figured out how to turn all that processing power into faster operations and cool new functions.
But the latest generation of chips, known as multicore, are so complex and so qualitatively different from their predecessors that they have flummoxed software developers. "We've gone through changes in the past," says Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer. But this one, he says, is the most "conceptually different" change "in the history of modern computing."
For the full report visit here:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/13/technology/microchips_copeland.fortune/index.htm
Intel drops Centrino from Atom brand after five months
IDG News Service's Sumner Lemon reports:
Intel has dropped the Centrino Atom brand after just five months, opting instead to use just the Atom brand across this part of its product line.
"Basically, we are simplifying and coalescing our efforts around 'Atom' as the single brand for Internet devices," said Nick Jacobs, a company spokesman in Singapore.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/135009/2008/08/atom.html
Former Apple lawyer to pay $2.2m for cooking books
The Register's Dan Goodin reports:
The former top lawyer at Apple has agreed to pay $2.2m to settle federal charges she illegally cooked the company's financial books to conceal backdated stock options issued to CEO Steve Jobs and other top executives.
Nancy Heinen, Apple's former general counsel, also agreed to be barred for five years from serving as an officer or director of any public company. The agreement with the Securities and Exchange commission settles a case that was scheduled to go to trial next year, at which Jobs was expected to be called as a witness. Heinen neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/14/apple_stockoptions_agreement/
Former Apple General Counsel Settles Backdating Charges
BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl reports:
Nancy Heinen, Apple's former general counsel has settled civil charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2007, the commission announced today.
The settlement calls for Heinen, who had served as Apple's general counsel from 1997 until her departure in mid-2006, to pay $2.2 million in disgorgement, interest and penalties, and to be barred from serving as an office of a public company for five years. Under terms of the settlement, she has neither admitted nor denied any wrongdoing.
Heinen had been accused by the SEC of being responsible for the backdating of two big blocks of stock options grants to Apple executives, a matter that had cast a pall over the company it first disclosed the matter in June of 2006, about a month after Heinen's departure. The SEC said that company records pertaining to a grant of 4.8 million options to Apple's senior executive team in February of 2001, and a grant of 7.5 million shares made to CEO Steve Jobs in December of 2001 had been altered to conceal what it called a fraud. The result was that Apple underreported its stock-related expenses by nearly $40 million.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/6kl2hk
Roadworthy Printers
PC Mag's M. David Stone reports:
There's a TV ad for a wireless Internet plan that shows an unfortunate notebook user literally locked in by Wi-Fi when she tries to leave a table. You could just as easily reshoot the ad with her chained to a printer. The simple truth is that one of the biggest headaches of portable computing is trying to turn what you've created on your computer into printed output. One solution is to bring a printer with you.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2327996,00.asp
The Mac Night Owl: The Plight of the Apple Early Adopter
In light of my peculiar line of work, I am one of the first on the block at least my block to adopt a new computer-related gadget, and certainly I'm pretty quick to install an upgraded operating system or application. Of course, this sort of behavior entails certain compromises.
Here's the URL for today's commentary:
http://www.macnightowl.com/2008/08/the-plight-of-the-apple-early-adopter/
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Revision3 Adds Hak5 Program to Hit Lineup Inviting Geeks and Hackers to 'Trust Your Technolust'
[Press release]
Revision3, the TV network for the Internet generation, today announced that it is bringing Hak5, a home-grown hit series fusing underground culture and mainstream IT, to its weekly lineup of pop culture shows. Covering everything from network security, open source software and forensics, to Do It Yourself projects and the homebrew scene, new episodes of Hak5 will launch September 8th on Revision3 at: http://www.revision3.com/hak5
"Back when we launched Tekzilla, a few fans accused us of ripping off Hak5's brick-encrusted set. The correlation was spurious, but rather than alienate the industry's top hackers, we decided it would be better to team up with Hak5 instead," said Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3. "Seriously, it's great to have such a hardcore hacking show round out our coverage for tech fanatics everywhere. And given the street cred of the Hak5 team, I'd rather have them with us than against us."
Hak5, known as a hybrid of technology and geek humor, has been put together by a band of IT ninjas, security professionals and gaming enthusiasts since 2005. Within its first few months on-air the show had become a hit among tech enthusiasts as well as mainstream media, and currently attracts fans from around the world.
"With this partnership we intend to focus solely on delivering the kind of unique and high quality content our loyal viewers have come to expect", said Darren Kitchen, Producer, Hak5. "We're excited to become a part of Revision3's great lineup of shows and to extend our devoted audience in the near future."
The first episode of Hak5 will launch on Revision3 on September 8, 2008. Episodes will be hosted by Darren Kitchen, Matt Lestock and Shannon Morse and will appear regularly every Wednesday at 12 p.m. EST.
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