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OS 10.6.2 Actually Does Work On Atom Processors
Apple Not Plotting To Slay Netbook Hackintoshes After All
Mac Art Project Game Destroys Aliens Files
Apple [The Other Apple] and EMI To Release Limited Edition Stereo USB
Beatles Go Digital With Limited Edition Apple USB
IDE Is Dead; Long Live SATA!
iMac Upgraded to SSD
How to Recycle an iMac Luxo
T3 Reviews MacBook Late 2009 - "a MacBook that thinks it's a Pro"
iMac (Late 2009) Benchmarks
I Am a Future PC: Why I'm Dumping Apple after 15 Years
Proprietary Cable Can Put The Brakes On Upgrading Late 09 iMacs
OS 10.6.2 Actually Does Work On Atom Processors
9To5Mac's Seth Weintraub reports:
Last week, there was a bit of a fuss made over prominent Hackintosher Stell's contention that new 10.6.2 beta builds were killing support for Atom chips. It appears that fears of the loss of Atom's support were unfounded because the latest developer build (10C535) re-enables support for Intel's Netbook processor.
For the full report visit
http://www.9to5mac.com/atom-support-10-6-2
Apple Not Plotting To Slay Netbook Hackintoshes After All
The Register's Rik Myslewski reports:
Remember how a report recently zipped around the blogosphere about Apple disabling support for Intel's Atom processor in its most recent build of the soon-to-be-released Mac OS 10.6.2? Well, fuggedaboutit.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/04/snow_leopard_atom_support_restored/
Mac Art Project Game Destroys Aliens Files
The Register's John Leyden reports:
A Mac game that deletes users' files has sparked a debate about whether it's malware or not.
The Space Invaders-style game deletes a file from the Mac home directory every time a user destroys an alien ship. The application, released as part of an art project, clearly warns this is what it does... in big red letters.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/04/mac_art_project_trojan_kerfuffle/
Apple [The Other Apple] and EMI To Release Limited Edition Stereo USB
thebeatles.com says:
Following the September 9 (9-9-09) debut of The Beatles digitally re-mastered catalogue on CD, Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music are pleased to announce the worldwide release of a limited edition of only 30,000 Beatles Stereo USB apples on December 7 (December 8 in North America).
The exquisitely crafted, apple-shaped USB drive is loaded with the critically acclaimed re-mastered audio for The Beatles 14 stereo titles, as well as all of the re-mastered CDs visual elements, including 13 mini-documentary films about the studio albums, replicated original UK album art, rare photos and expanded liner notes.
A specially designed Flash interface has been installed, and the 16GB USB s audio contents will be provided in FLAC 44.1 Khz 24 bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats, fully compatible with PC and Mac.
For more information, visit:
http://www.thebeatles.com/#/news/APPLE_AND_EMI_TO_RELEASE/
Beatles Go Digital With Limited Edition Apple USB
Macworld UK's Nick Spence reports:
No Apple iTunes debut yet, but The Beatles will be offering digital conversions of the recent digitally re-mastered catalogue on CD shortly via Apple Records and EMI.
Apple and EMI are set to release a "limited edition stereo USB" on 7 December, a day later in the US, apple shaped USB drive containing the well received Remasters.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/yl266c4
IDE Is Dead; Long Live SATA!
Low End Mac's Dan Knight says:
IDE has been around since 1986, and Apple has been using IDE drives in Macs since 1995. Apple first used SATA drives in 2003, and as of 2006 they are in use across the Macintosh line (more on that below).
I'm a low-end Mac user by necessity, and all of the Macs I use regularly have IDE drives. I started to get an inkling that something was up a few months ago when I tried to find a hard drive deal for my 266 MHz WallStreet PowerBook - and DealMac didn't list any IDE notebook drives. This morning I checked DealMac for 3.5" hard drives, and received the message, "No recent deals found for IDE Hard Drives."
It's not that IDE hard drives aren't still available - they are, but the market has shifted to SATA, so there's little point running deals on IDE drives when people are looking for SATA drives.
On top of that, many new hard drives aren't available for IDE, just for SATA.
That got me to wondering if it might not make more sense to put a SATA controller card in one of my G4 Power Macs so I could benefit from the newest, fastest, highest capacity, and best deal hard drives.
To read more, click here.
http://lowendmac.com/musings/09mm/ide-is-dead.html
iMac Upgraded to SSD
thatsiebguy.com says:
As much as I didn't want to believe it, my beloved 24" iMac that I use at work finally started having harddrive issues. I couldn't pinpoint if this was an OSX issue (firmware updated, etc) or an actual hardware issue, but the internal harddrive started acting like it was going to sleep all the time, even though that option was turned off. I would be working and I could hear the drive spin down, and everything would hang. Then after a second or two, I could hear the drive spin back up and everything would pick back up. I figured this was as good an excuse as any to upgrade the drive and do a clean upgrade to Snow Leopard. I decided that, since I had a Drobo sitting next to me, I didn t need much internal storage, but given how much work I do on the machine every day, I wanted something fast. So the decision to use an SSD was a no brainer, specifically a 120GB OCZ Summit drive...
To read more, click here.
http://www.thatsiebguy.com/2009/10/imac-upgraded-to-ssd/
How to Recycle an iMac Luxo
HardMAc's Lionel says:
You can check it out at:
If one considers only the design, the iMac "luxo" is most likely the best model manufactured by Apple, with the Cube. Unfortunately, those models are aging, and sometimes stop working after years of operation. Nicolas found a interesting way to recycle his iMac:
I was planning to reorganize my desk and I was looking for a lamp with an Apple-touch. So I decided to recycle my old iMac G4. With some spare parts, one can easily transform it into a nice lamp fully articulated thanks to the famous arm.....
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/11/04/how-to-recycle-an-imac-luxo
T3 Reviews MacBook Late 2009 - "a MacBook that thinks it's a Pro"
T3 says:
Let's get one thing straight from the off. When will Apple make up its mind about FireWire? Originally supported across the entire Mac range, when it was dropped from the 13-inch aluminium unibody MacBook in late 2008, it seemed the writing was on the wall for Apple's proprietary connectivity system. Mac users were up in arms. The next revision of Apple s laptop range saw the aluminium MacBook join the Pro range, and much to the relief of the Apple faithful, FireWire was restored. Yet now, with the release of this new entry-level white polycarbonate 13-inch MacBook, the FireWire port has disappeared again.
Thankfully, most of the new MacBook s revisions are far more welcome than its dropping FireWire support.....
For the full review visit here:
http://www.t3.com/reviews/computers/laptops/apple-macbook-la
te-2009-review?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=T3-Reviews-RSS
iMac (Late 2009) Benchmarks
Macworld Lab's James Galbraith reports:
Apple recently updated its popular iMac line of desktop computers to include larger screens, more standard memory and bigger hard drives. Three of the four new configurations two 21.5-inch models and one 27-inch model feature 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo processors and are available now. Macworld Lab has the 3.06GHz trio and we ve put them to the test....
You can check it out at:
http://tinyurl.com/yzc5oj5
I Am a Future PC: Why I'm Dumping Apple after 15 Years
Blogger Mike Doyle says:
Don't hate - trust me, I'm as surprised at my decision as you are...
I am a future Windows PC user and that is that. After a 15-year relationship with all things Apple, I've finally had it with the Steve Jobs' "you'll use your computer they way we tell you to use your computer method of customer relations."....
My past four months of being a Gmail and Google Calendar user have been transformational.... Google's web apps are more robust than Apple s desktop counterparts not to mention free. That got me thinking about all the times in the recent past I've felt hampered by Mac software.... when it comes to using your computer it can often feel like it's either Apple s way or the highway. It's one thing to regularly ignore the needs of users by releasing software and system updates that just as regularly break popular third-party applications and add-ons.... It's quite another to tell users that if they try to put unapproved software on their $400 cell phones (via iPhone OS jailbreaking), you may render their phones permanently inoperable...
And then surprise of surprises, last month Windows 7 was released to rave reviews, including Wall Street Journal Mac fanboy Walt Mossberg calling it as good as Mac OS X. That pretty much sealed the deal for me... thanks to Apple's 2005 shift to Intel chips, Windows 7 will become my main Macbook operating system. And if you hadn't guessed by now, after that my next computer will be a PC.
To read more, click here.
http://tinyurl.com/yhjcz3e
Proprietary Cable Can Put The Brakes On Upgrading Late 09 iMacs
In a case-in-point exemplar of what's got a burr under Mike Doyle's saddle, OWC blogger Chris S. reports:
STOP-hard-driveSometimes even the best educated guesses can be thrown for a loop when an unforeseen X-Factor comes into play. Such is the case with the Late 2009 iMacs.
As we were getting information together for the new iMac instructional videos, we came across a little tidbit that, apparently, hasn't been covered anywhere else: Apple has switched the iMac s method of hard drive temperature sensing. They've gone from an external sensor that attached to the outside surface of the drive to a connector that seems to use the drive's internal sensors.
On first blush, this would appear to be a good thing; an internal sensor is closer to the drive s mechanics and is likely to be more accurate regarding drive state. Unfortunately, there are no industry standards regarding the ports/pins used to access this information, and each hard drive manufacturer seems to do it their own way. And more unfortunately, when the iMac gets no sensor information via that cable, the heat exhaust fans kick into permanent high gear, so that cable must be connected.
That means, in order to upgrade the internal drive, you need to have a connector cable that's compatible with the brand of drive that you're installing & and that's an Apple service part not generally available to the end user. Pretty sneaky, Apple!
To read more, click here.
http://tinyurl.com/yzpkc8x
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