Adobe: No immediate plans to release universal binaries
Posted by Dr. Macenstein Mac users familiar with the Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Dayâ€? may be feeling a bit of déjà vu themselves this morning. Adobe yesterday offered more specific details of its planned transition to “universal binary versions” of its more popular software, and the news was not what many graphics professionals were hoping to hear.... Read More
Internet Explorer for Mac no longer available for download, Microsoft recommends Safari
Posted by Dr. Macenstein Last December we reported that Microsoft had announced they would drop support for the Mac version of their Internet Explorer web browser on January 31, 2006. Well, today is February 1st, and true to their word, Microsoft has pulled IE from their Mactopia downloads page. One interesting note here is Microsoft (in their press release) recommends Apple users... Read More
Out with the old… Apple drops 20-inch iMac G5 prices
Posted by Lab Rat In a move geared to start clearing out the old inventory of PowerPC-based iMacs, Apple has lowered the price of its 20-inch iMac G5 system by $200, bringing it down to $1499. Pricing for the 17-inch model remains the same. When Apple unveiled its Intel-based iMacs last month, many found it odd that they continued to offer their older PowerPC-based counterparts... Read More
Is the Intel iMac’s CPU upgradeable?
Posted by Helper Monkey Macenstein reader F_Windows sent us a blurb on xlr8yourmac which claims the CPUs on the new Intel iMacs may in fact be upgradeable. An unconfirmed story in a Japanese magazine claims that one industrious fella not only successfully replaced the 1.8 GHz CPU his iMac shipped with with a 2GHz chip, but that the iMac’s CPU is not soldered on to the motherboard!... Read More
OS X 10.4.4 for Intel on Torrent hacker site
Posted by Helper Monkey A report on hackinthebox.com claims that someone has uploaded their Intel iMac’s restore disk to the hacking community on Piratebay. This is not an cracked version, however, so it is not as though anyone who downloads this will be able to run OS X on their generic PCs. However, it DOES put a working copy of OS X for Intel into the hands of a much wider... Read More
Norton AntiVirus now MacIntel compatible… but should we care?
Posted by Helper Monkey Symantec, makers of the (formerly) popular Norton Systemworks suite have released an update to their Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 10 software, making it compatible with the newly released Intel Macs. From the release: “If you have a new Intel-based Macintosh computer, install Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.0 and run LiveUpdate to update to the... Read More
Microsoft to mount challenge to iPod with new MBox music player?
Posted by Lab Rat BusinessWeek is reporting that Microsoft is considering plans for an iPod-esque music player of its own. This represents a huge change in Microsoft’s thinking as they now have to admit that their relying on a dozen or so manufacturers to provide media players to compete with the iPod is just not working. Combined sales of all other media players accounts... Read More
Viacom joins the iTunes family
Posted by Dr. Macenstein Viacom has jumped on board the iTunes bandwagon, and has made select programming from some of its channels available for download from the iTunes store. Last month Viacom-owned MTV announced its own download service called URGE in conjunction with Microsoft (although not officially active yet), so this comes as a little bit of a surprise. Notable programs... Read More
Intel produces 45nm chip
Posted by Helper Monkey Only 1 month after it began shipping its latest 65nm processors, Intel has announced it has successfully manufactured a chip at 45nm. This makes Intel the first chip company to successfully showcase a working 45nm chip. The chips are said to provide a 5x decrease in transistor leakage over 65nm chips, and a 20% improvement in switching speed. While these... Read More
Intel Core Duo Chips full of flaws?
Posted by Lab Rat Geek.com has an article which claims numerous flaws are being identified in Intel’s newly released Core Duo and Core Solo family of chips at the alarming rate of 1.5 per day since their January 3rd unveiling. Currently 34 known issues have surfaced, and while some are more serious than others, only one is slated to be fixed by Intel at this time. While the... Read More
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