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Intel releases 'Diamondville' Atom CPU
Paris Apple Expo: Apple Confirms No-Show
Apple France confirms first Apple Store in Paris
Macs Cheaper To Run Than Windows In Enterprise
How 'Warm' Is Your MacBook Operating Temperature?
Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev Up Your Routines
Apple And Google's Awkward Mobile Marriage
Fueled by the World's Appetite for Digital Storage Capacity, HDD Demand Will Continue to Grow, IDC Believes
Acer Announces 199 Linux Laptop
Mac OS X update could deliver fatal blow to Photoshop CS3
Layers: the Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature
If .Mac is down, could .Me be far behind?
Intel releases 'Diamondville' Atom CPU
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
Computex Intel has begun shipping its 'Diamondville' Atom processor - the incarnation of the CPU series aimed at Small, Cheap Computers rather than mobile internet devices, which were the subject of April's original Atom launch.
As anticipated, Diamondville has been realised as two 22mm2 chips: the N270 and the 230, the former for laptops, the latter for desktops. Both are clocked at 1.6GHz, sit on a "power-optimised" 533MHz frontside bus and pack in 512KB of L2 cache.
For the full report, visit:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/03/intel_ships_diamondville/
Paris Apple Expo: Apple Confirms No-Show
French Mac site MacPlus reports:
As we announced yesterday by relaying a rumor published by our friends Macgnration (see dispatch), Apple Europe does not officially support the 2008 edition of the Apple Expo, renamed 'Apple Expo `08 Remix for the occasion: Apple has indeed confirmed its withdrawal from the Apple Expo a terse release:"
"Year after year, Apple reduced its participation in trade fairs, as there are often better ways to get in contact with our customers. The growing popularity of apple.com website allows us to directly reach more than a hundred millions of customers worldwide in innovative ways.
For the full report, visit:
http://www.macplus.net/magplus/depeche-18420-apple-expo-apple-confirme
Apple France confirms first Apple Store in Paris
MacScoop's Alexandros Roussos reports:
Apple France has issued a press release this morning confirming rumours of a physical Apple Store location opening in Paris.
The first Paris-based Apple retail store will be located at the Carrousel du Louvre, a place which is very touristic, mainly thanks to the famous Le Louvres museum....
Earlier this week, the French newspaper La Tribune confirmed an Apple store on that location...
For the full report, visit:
http://www.macscoop.com/articles/2008/06/03/apple-france-confirms-first-apple-store-paris
Macs Cheaper To Run Than Windows In Enterprise
9To5Mac's Andy Space reports:
New research confirms Macs have 33 per cent fewer problems than Windows PCs in a business environment - and that it's easier to resolve Mac problems than those with Windows.
Nucleus Research has been conducting an in-depth study on Mac versus PC in the enterprise. Ian Campbell, CEO of the company, writes: "We've been investigating the ROI from Macs versus PCs in the business environment. I was reviewing the data from a case study one of our analysts is completing and the results are interesting."...
In addition, the Mac trouble tickets are closed 30% quicker. To net it out, in this company the Macs have 1/3 fewer problems and the problems are solved a lot quicker."
For the full report, visit:
http://www.9to5mac.com/macs_cheaper_than_windows
How 'Warm' Is Your MacBook Operating Temperature?
The Apple Core's David Morgenstern says:
Just as the experience of pain varies from individuals, so is our evaluation of how hot a Mac laptop can become. Apple says they can become "very warm." We can appreciate that warmth in the winter, but it can be a pain for summer computing.
Apple refreshed its Apple Portables: Operating temperature technical note. It says not to worry about "very warm" laptops. There's nothing in the note about "very hot."
For the full commentary, click here.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1810
Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev Up Your Routines
Macsworld's Dan Frakes says:
Macs are relatively hassle-free - most people can get by without doing any routine maintenance at all. But you can greatly reduce your chances of problems, both big and small, by regularly performing a few simple tasks. I recommend performing some - such as backing up your data - diligently and often. Others require your attention only occasionally.
There are two types of people: those who've lost data and those who will. So perhaps the most important step you can take is to accept the fact problems are inevitable and make sure your safety net is in place....
To read more, click here.
http://www.macworld.com/article/133730/2008/06/maintenance_routines.html?lsrc=top_1
Apple And Google's Awkward Mobile Marriage
alleyinsider.com's Hank Williams says:
The relationship between Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Apple Inc., on whose board he sits, must, at times be incredibly awkward.
Google is developing Android, an open source operating system for mobile phones, which is directly competitive with Apple's iPhone. One would think that Apple would not be happy with this, and would ask Schmidt to step down. Yes, I know Schmidt leaves the room when they talk about the iPhone in board meetings. But this still must feel a bit like Apple having Microsoft on its board.
But here's the thing. Apple *needs* Google.
To read more, click here.
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/apple_and_googles_awkward_mobile_marriage_aapl_goog
Fueled by the World's Appetite for Digital Storage Capacity, HDD Demand Will Continue to Grow, IDC Believes
[Press Release]
The world's prodigious appetite for digital storage capacity continues to fuel hard disk drive (HDD) demand and revenue. Worldwide HDD shipments are expected to grow in 2008, even in the face of economic uncertainty in the United States, and increase at a compound annual growth rate of more than 9% between 2007 and 2012, IDC forecasts. Flash-based solid state disk drives (SSDs) will curtail HDD demand in some markets, but the HDD industry will shrug-off these and other competing storage technologies to attain consecutive years of record-setting HDD shipments and revenue.
"Disk drive OEMs are very aware of the different competing storage technologies that exist today, and will exist in the future," said John Rydning, research director for Hard Disk Drives at IDC. "They will rightly shrug-off these competing technologies for a later day, choosing instead to capitalize on the healthy and profitable opportunities that lie ahead in the hard disk drive industry."
Among key trends of the HDD industry are the following:
• HDD markets least threatened by competing storage technologies such as enterprise storage systems, personal storage devices, and personal video recorders, will compose nearly 50% of total HDD unit shipments by 2012.
• Successive generations of HDD products using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology will enable average HDD capacities to increase by nearly threefold by 2012.
IDC's study, Worldwide Hard Disk Drive 2008-2012 Forecast: Shrugging-Off Storage
Technology Challengers (Doc #212231) presents a forecast of HDD demand both by standard HDD industry form factors, and for the following HDD consumption segments: portable PCs, desktop PCs, enterprise storage systems, servers, personal storage devices, and various consumer electronics products. The HDD market opportunities are discussed in terms of HDD OEM unit shipments, exit-factory revenue, terabytes shipped, and compound annual growth rates for the period 2007-2012, providing the reader with a solid understanding of the current situation and future outlook for the worldwide HDD market.
For more information, visit:
http://www.idc.com
Acer Announces 199 Linux Laptop
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
Computex Acer has launched its Eee PC wannabe, the Aspire One, pitching the product to Brits at just 199 including VAT - even though it's "not a low-cost notebook", according to the company.
The One's specs largely match those of its rivals: 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor; 512MB of 533MHz DDR 2 memory with a single SO-Dimm slot for more; and an 8.9in, 1024 x 600, 262,000-colour LED-backlit display. There's a 0.3-megapixel webcam in the screen bezel.
For the full report, visit:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/03/acer_launches_one/
Mac OS X update could deliver fatal blow to Photoshop CS3
ITWire's Stephen Withers reports:
Last week's Mac OS X 10.5.3 update stomped on an extensive list of bugs and shut the door on a swag of security vulnerabilities. But it also delivered a problem that could result in irreparably damaged files for Photoshop CS3 users.
The issue strikes when a Photoshop file is saved to a network volume. Corruption occurs, and it may be serious enough to prevent the document from being re-opened by Photoshop or other applications that can handle .psd files...
For the full report, visit:
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18566/53/
Layers: the Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature
MyMac's Bakari Chavanu reports:
When I conduct introductory digital photography workshops, most people say they have trouble using Photoshop because they don't understand how to use layers. Though Photoshop takes us out of the darkroom so to speak, for many people any version of Photoshop seems as daunting and confusing as working with film, chemicals, and an enlarger.
Well, Photoshop guru Matt Kloskowski has written a concise introductory guide about using layers, the heart of Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CS series. His book is appropriately titled, Layers: the Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature. For this book, Matt incorporates Scott Kelby's trade mark style of explaining Photoshop layer features and techniques in a well illustrated, step by step process. Each lesson is explained in less than five pages with no more than two paragraphs per page.
Layers: the Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature
by Matt Kloskowksi
Peachpit Press
ISBN 978-0-321-53416-3, 255 pages
$39.99 US, $43.99 CN 28.99 UK
For the full review visit here:
http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=3298
If .Mac is down, could .Me be far behind?
Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt says:
Apple's mail service was offline for about five and a half hours Monday night, and a lot of people got very excited.
".Mac mail down, speculations abound" read the headline on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).
".Mac outage sparks fresh re-brand rumour" echoed 9to5Mac.
Why the excitement? Because everybody who follows Apple believes that an overhaul of the company's aging Internet services bundle is imminent....
To read more, click here:
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/03/if-mac-is-down-could-me-be-far-behind/
The Mac Night Owl: Are You Ready to Ditch .Mac?
When Apple introduced a free set of Internet services several years ago, dubbed iTools, I jumped at the chance to have a genuine mac.com email address. When it morphed into a $99 commercial service, dubbed .Mac, I'm sure many of the early adopters opted out, and I was quite frankly the fence.
Here's the link to the story:
http://macnightowl.com/2008/06/are-you-ready-to-ditch-mac/
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