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Mac OS X 10.7 development already underway

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 18th 2009 No Comments

With Snow Leopard happily padding around hundreds of thousands of Macs around the world, it comes as little surprise to hear that Apple are already a few weeks into development of OS X 10.7. Sign of the upcoming OS refresh has been spotted in the change log of the open source "launchd" framework: a new entry for Mac OS build number "11A47" has turned up, and going by Apple's general nomenclature for build codes, that points squarely at OS X 10.7.

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OS X 10.6.2 reacquires Atom support in latest dev build

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 5th 2009 No Comments

Having heard earlier this week that Apple had blocked Atom processor support in their latest build of OS X 10.6.2, we're now being told that the low-power Intel CPU has once again been welcomed back into the Mac fold. A newer 10.6.2 build, 10C535, has restored Atom support, meaning owners of netbook-turned-Hackint0sh machines may not be left without the latest software in their DIY Apple ultraportables.

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Magic Mouse update adds OS X Leopard support

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 28th 2009 No Comments

Apple have released Magic Mouse drivers for Mac OS X 10.5.8, which will allow those still running OS X Leopard to use the multitouch functionality of the new peripheral. The update is accompanied by the 10.6.1 Snow Leopard driver; however, the imminent OS X 10.6.2 release is expected to add native support for Magic Mouse to the Mac platform, which would mean that users could simply pair their mouse and begin using its multitouch capabilities.

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Apple report latest finances: Mac sales & margins up, iPod touch sales double

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Oct 20th 2009 No Comments

apple logo Apple have announced their fiscal Q4 2009 financial results, and it’s been another successful three months for the company. Anybody suggesting that Apple’s tactics of selling relatively few expensive devices (rather than many cheap ones) will have some explaining to do in the face of these latest figures: Mac sales are up around 17-percent from the same period one year ago, while gross margin is up 36.6-percent. That’s helped the company reach $9.87bn in revenue, of which $1.67bn is profit (compared to $1.14bn profit in Q4 2008).

After the cut, slumping iPod sales and the promise of “really great new products” by Steve Jobs

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FirmTek now shipping SeriTek/2ME4-E Snow Leopard compatible eSATA host adapter

By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Oct 19th 2009 No Comments

A company called FirmTek has announced that it is now shipping a new four-port eSATA host adapter that is compatible with the latest Apple Snow Leopard OS. The device works with both 32-bit and 64-bit modes in the OS and the device is backwards compatible with older versions of Mac OS X.

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Snow Leopard randomly deleting user data according to reports

By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Oct 12th 2009 2 Comments

For a long time popular belief held that the Apple Mac OS never had any problems and had no malware. Today we know there malware that targets the Mac OS and the operating system has its share of issues from time to time. According to reports coming in now, the newest version of Mac OS called Snow Leopard is randomly deleting user data.

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Mossberg: “Windows 7 beats the Mac OS in some areas”

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 8th 2009 1 Comment

walt mossberg 218x243 custom If you’re looking for inflammatory speech, search no more: everybody’s favorite bearded-uncle of tech, Walt Mossberg, has well and truly rammed his metaphorical review-poker into the flames of the Windows/Mac argument. In his review of Windows 7 for All Things D, Mossberg confesses that while “In recent years, I, like many other reviewers, have argued that Apple’s Mac OS X operating system is much better than Windows. That’s no longer true.”

Nonetheless, Mossberg is still leaning toward Apple overall, going to to confirm that “I still give the Mac OS a slight edge because it has a much easier and cheaper upgrade path; more built-in software programs; and far less vulnerability to viruses and other malicious software, which are overwhelmingly built to run on Windows.” Still, he confirms that “Now, however, it’s much more of a toss-up between the two rivals.”

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Apple racking up sales with Snow Leopard

By Shane McGlaun on Thursday, Sep 17th 2009 No Comments

Apple’s latest Mac operating system Snow Leopard has only been on the market for a few week now, but Apple is racking up impressive sales numbers. According to research firm IDC Snow Leopard is outselling the two previous Mac OS versions handily.

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EFI-X Mac hack dongle accused of stealing GNU code

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 9th 2009 2 Comments

EFI-X’s OS X hack dongle always seemed too good to be true; according to a new report from Tom’s Hardware, it really was. The adapter promised to take a computer built from standard PC components and allow Mac OS X to be installed on it, without the usual patching and tweaking required for a regular “Hackint0sh”. However, as one EFI-X owner has discovered, it seems the company did little more than repackage Chameleon/Boot-132 bootloader code onto a DRM-encrypted USB stick.

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Creative Vado HD Gets Upgraded With Memory, Mac Support, and New Colors

By Evan Selleck on Wednesday, Sep 2nd 2009 No Comments

Creative's Vado HD has been out for quite some time now, and it looks like they're finally getting around to giving the small HD video camera some extra attention. Especially in the looks department. We're sure it has something to do with the fact that the competition's prices are dropping, and obviously this just goes to show you that a little competition never hurt anybody. Especially our wallets.