Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

Hardly a week goes by without us criticizing the bad performances of the graphics chips of Intel that the foundery has now the bad idea to directly install next to the processor, removing any chance to be able to doing without it. In an interview, an senior executive of Intel justified the poor performance of these [...]

The Mac community of gamers is getting excited as Valve, the famous game editor on Windows (for Half-life and counter-strike for examples) started a “teasing” campaign as the company will release games on Mac OS X in a near future. It seems quite clear now that Valve will be porting “Portal” on Mac OS X. [...]

Apple on Friday distributed yet another beta of Mac OS X 10.6.3 to its developer community with no known issues, as the update to Snow Leopard moves closer to a public release.

Last October, Apple updated its Airport Extreme and Time capsule models to further improve performance. We have been testing both products and we could confirm the faster data transfer speed in optima conditions. However, it seems that many users are having problems with the 5 GHz network as reported on Apple forum: New Extreme (slow on 5 [...]

Apple on Friday evening equipped developers with yet another build of its upcoming maintenance and security update for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that includes few changes from an earlier build distributed two weeks ago.

With the release of Windows 7, less than two years after Vista, Microsoft changed its practice of wanting to keep an operating system on sale for many long years. We thought that this decision to bring on the end of Vista was due to the eagerness of Microsoft to drive out memory this badly liked [...]

Apparently Some EU entrepreneurs were not impressed by the recent battle between Apple and Psystar. In addition to PearC, the now well-known German Hackintosh distributor, a French website, uinfo.fr offers 2 models, for 239 and 279 €. Installation of Leopard and Snow Leopard is a 40 € BTO. It remains unclear if this includes the Mac [...]

A third planned maintenance and security update to Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system will include significant enhancements to QuickTime X while also improving printing and Logic performance, AppleInsider has learned.

Apple jsut released a Security Update for Leopard, Leopard Server and Snow Leopard. “Security Update 2010-001 is recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X.”

According to the last tidbits, the NVIDIA Fermi-based graphic card should be entitled GeForce GF100 and be available in March. If NVIDIA did not demo any unit so far it keeps communicating about it. At the end of the CES, NVIDIA invited some journalists to talk about GPGPU and performance of the future GPU in [...]

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