Boo! This week’s top Apple news recapped the drama over ZFS on the Mac, what’s wrong with Psystar’s latest EFI tool, the new Apple TV software, and more. If you need to catch up, you’ve found the right place.
A number of rumors have recently suggested that Apple has been courting print publishers to provide content for a long-rumored tablet device. However, RBC analyst Mike Abramsky recently got to sit down with several Apple executives, who suggested that video was much more exciting to Apple than print. The truth may actually lie somewhere in between.
One of the major problems with living in a college dorm is that your gaming experience is often limited by a lack of quality sound equipment. First of all, most of us can’t afford a 5.1 surround system; and between quiet hours, a general lack of space, and roommates, gaming late at night quickly becomes a tricky situation unless you’re willing to forgo volume at a reasonable level. But a solution to this conundrum is at hand: the Tritton AX 720 gaming headset provides some fantastic sound for a reasonable price, and the combination is fantastic.
Intel’s new firmware and toolkit for its new X25 line of solid state disks (SSDs) delivered a massive improvement in their already blisteringly fast performance this week, with increased write speed and a near-elimination of usage-induced performance degradation. The update also included support for the Windows 7 “trim” feature, which will boost SSD’s speed and lifespan. So with a 40 percent performance boost and extra Windows 7 goodness, what’s not to like about this update? Try data corruption, which some users have reported, causing the update to be pulled not long after it was released. This latest in Intel’s uninterrupted streak of firmware foibles will probably be resolved as quickly as the prior two, but it may fuel ongoing doubt about the stability of the SSD as a reliable storage device.
As we expected (perhaps even sooner than we expected), Apple today released a major update to the software that runs its set-top box, the Apple TV. Apple TV 3.0 software brings a number of new features, including iTunes LPs, iTunes Extras, Genius Mixes, and streaming Internet radio to the media device. The new features are also accompanied by a refreshed and refined user interface.
As we expected (perhaps even sooner than we expected), Apple today released a major update to the software that runs its set-top box, the Apple TV. Apple TV 3.0 software brings a number of new features, including iTunes LPs, iTunes Extras, Genius Mixes, and streaming Internet radio to the media device. The new features are also accompanied by a refreshed and refined user interface.
Intel is just one of the semiconductor companies that has been working on phase-change memory (PCM) for the past few years, and now the chipmaker and its collaborator, Numonyx, have hit on a way to increase PCM densities by stacking memory arrays on top of one another. They’ve demonstrated at 64Mbit memory using the stacking technique, which they plan to describe in a paper at the forthcoming IEDM conference.
As we expected (perhaps even sooner than we expected), Apple today released a major update to the software that runs its set-top box, the Apple TV. AppleTV 3.0 software brings a number of new features, including iTunes LPs, iTunes Extras, Genius Mixes, and streaming Internet radio to the media device. The new features are also accompanied by a refreshed and refined user interface.
As we expected (perhaps even sooner than we expected), Apple today released a major update to the software that runs its set-top box, the Apple TV. AppleTV 3.0 software brings a number of new features, including iTunes LPs, iTunes Extras, Genius Mixes, and streaming Internet radio to the media device. The new features are also accompanied by a refreshed and refined user interface.
If you’re looking to use one of Apple’s new multi-touch Magic Mouse with your current Mac, especially to experience the glory of multi-touch gestures on a desktop, we have some good news and some bad news.
