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Apple Leopard Appears Nearly Ready
How To Tame A Leopard
Fusion 1.0 - The New Kid On The 'Windows On Mac' Block
Gateway launches iMac-alike all-in-one PC
LED displays to dominate Apple, Sony notebooks soon
First thoughts on the 24-inch aluminum iMac
eWEEK: Parallel Processing Deemed 'Next Big Thing'
The Mac Night Owl: Microsoft Meets Its Own Worst Enemy: Microsoft
Apple Leopard Appears Nearly Ready
InformationWeek's Antone Gonsalves reports:
Apple's next version of the Mac OS X is reportedly close to being a release candidate, and some analysts believe the company is on track to meet its self-imposed deadline of shipping Leopard next month.
For Apple to meet its promise of releasing Leopard to consumers sometime in October, the company would have to finish the current testing process within three weeks, and some analysts expect the company to meet the tight schedule. "There's no certainty in software, but all signs are pointing to it shipping on time," Ezra Gottheil, analyst for Technology Business Research, told InformationWeek.
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How To Tame A Leopard
InformationWee's Liam Proven reports:
Hope springs eternal. Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 - not-very-secretly-at-all codenamed "Leopard" - isn't even out yet, but hacks for it are starting to appear.
As we revealed a couple of days ago, Apple has raised the bar still further for Mac-o-philes who fancy upgrading to the latest OS X - whenever it finally appears. The last we've heard, you're going to need a G4 running at a minimum of 867MHz. That rules out a lot of fairly recent machines: lots of early G4 desktops, the first three generations of flat-screen "anglepoise lamp " G4 iMacs, the first two generations of eMac, the first generation of 12-inch iBook G4 and most of the Titanium PowerBooks. Of the eight revisions of the Tit, only the last two are fast enough; if you've got a 400, 500, 550, 667 or 800MHz machine, well, it's tough tit for you, really.
But that's only the official line.
What the OS X installer does isn't check how fast your processor is running; it looks at the model number of your Mac and compares it to a list of "bad" machines that are officially rated as too slow. So if you've got an upgraded CPU and your box is actually fast enough, well, it won't work....
There are several ways around this, though.....
For the full report click here.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/09/27/tame-elderly-leopard
Fusion 1.0 - The New Kid On The 'Windows On Mac' Block
Maworld's Rob Griffiths reports:
You may need (or want) to run Windows, or other operating systems, alongside Mac OS X, and Parallels Desktop is the best-known of several programs on the market for that purpose. (Full native Windows support, of course, is also available via Apple's Boot Camp, but it requires you to reboot out of OS X and into Windows.) A new-to-the-Mac player now brings a formidable challenger to the arena, however. VMware, an expert in x86 virtualization—that is, the ability to run one or more x86 operating systems as "guests" under a "host" x86 operating system—has released Fusion 1.0, its first OS X offering. Like Parallels, Fusion allows you to run many versions of Windows and other operating systems from within OS X. And unlike Boot Camp, you don't have to log out and restart in order to use it.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/2007/09/reviews/vmwarefusion/index.php
Gateway launches iMac-alike all-in-one PC
The Register's James Sherwood reports:
Gateway has unveiled its latest all-in-one desktop PC, dubbed simply the One. Sitting somewhere between an Apple iMac and Sony's Vaio LT series in terms of looks, the slimline 19in machine also sports a unique power-brick-cum-port-replicator.
The low-end and mid-range models both have a 1.5GHz Core 2 Duo and sport 2GB of memory. Gateway's most basic One will have a 320GB hard drive and incorporates an Intel X3100 graphics engine, while the mid-range model has a 400GB hard drive and an AMD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics chip with 256MB of video RAM. Gateway's top-end One runs at 2GHz, has 3GB of memory, incorporates a 500GB capacity hard drive. It too has Mobility Radeon HD 2600 graphics.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/27/gateway_one_launched/
LED displays to dominate Apple, Sony notebooks soon
Electronista reports:
High-profile companies like Apple and Sony may produce as much as a third of their notebooks with advanced LED-backlit displays by next year, according to reported insiders from the LCD panel industry. These companies in particular are expected to replace at least 20 to 30 percent of their notebook lineups with the new technology by 2008 or 2009 at the latest as they seek to improve the displays across more of their existing lines....
The improvement would let both desktop replacement systems and thin-and-light notebooks produce more uniform colors, save power, and reduce their thickness compared to traditional displays with cold-cathode fluorescent (CCFL) backlights.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/09/27/led.displays.to.dominate/
First thoughts on the 24-inch aluminum iMac
The Houston Chronicle's Dwight Silverman says:
On Saturday, I swallowed hard and opened my wallet wide, buying a 24-inch aluminum iMac needed to write my next book. I'd already been playing with one, a slightly more powerful model Apple sent me for review.
Several TechBlog readers have asked me specific questions about it in comments and e-mail, and I'll try to answer most of them via some early impressions of the two machines.
The new iMacs have a glossy screen, which also was a controversial addition to the MacBook line. In the iMac, there's a sheet of glass over the LCD, and some potential buyers have worried about the glare factor. I've got the iMac in a room with a big window, and for a while I had it positioned so it faced that window. I was able to tilt its position in such a way that glare was not a problem, and what glare there was proved to be minimal. For me at least, this is not an issue.
In fact, this is, without a doubt, the nicest computer display I've ever seen in an all-in-one unit. The colors are vivid, text is sharp and having 24-inches of screen real estate is luxurious. In fact, I find I prefer a single 24-inch screen over the dual 19-inch displays on my Vista PC.
For the full review click here.
eWEEK: Parallel Processing Deemed 'Next Big Thing'
At MIT's Emerging Tech Conference, Intel, Cisco and HP contend that parallel processing will be the big driver for the data center.
To read more, go to:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2189130,00.asp
The Mac Night Owl: Microsoft Meets Its Own Worst Enemy: Microsoft
In the business world, there are many factors that can cause a company to suffer big time and ultimately fail. One is, of course, poor sales, which usually combine with poor profits to destroy the bottom line. Certainly competitors can cause a business lots and lots of grief. But sometimes a company does things that do not work in its own best interests.
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