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Macs Are Not About Megahertz, Says Jobs
News Several months back, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs spoke of narrowing the clock-speed gap between the chips in Macs and Windows-based machines. Until Wednesday, the Power Macs ranged in speed from 466MHz to 733MHz.
[July 20, 2001, 9:22]
Researcher: 'Macs As Easy To Hack As To Use'
News "Macs are as easy to hack as they are to use", according to researcher Charles Miller. Open source is yet another vector for new attacks on Apple Macs. Miller and his colleagues at Independent Security Evaluators discovered the first known...
[August 14, 2007, 11:44]
Unofficial Firefox For Intel Macs Released
News Demand for the browser on Apple's new CPU platform is expected to rocket as the PC vendor last week started selling the first Macs based on CPUs from Intel. While an unofficial version of the software is now available on Aas' personal Web site...
[January 16, 2006, 8:30]
Vista Licensing Gives Macs Fresh Appeal
News Property asset management company Capital & Regional is evaluating Linux desktops and Apple Macs as a way to reduce its dependency on Microsoft. Zone and The Mall shopping centres — could potentially run on Suse Linux with a Firefox browser, while...
[July 11, 2007, 15:23]
Intel Macs Will Struggle With Vista
Talkback A lack of support for 'legacy systems' will cause problems to anyone trying to run Vista on Intel Macs. Apple Engineer: Huh. It seems to me like it is more a lack of support for next-generation systems on the part of Microsoft.
[March 10, 2006, 16:23]
The Case For Heterogeneous Wireless MACs
White Papers A set of signaling messages are defined for inter-operability among heterogeneous MACs, although they may interpret those control messages differently based on their specific context. This paper analyzes the interference mitigation strategies in...
[June 16, 2006, 0:00]
GeForce 4 Ships In New Power Macs
News Apple Computer on Monday broke the 1GHz barrier not once but twice with the delivery of new Power Macs. The Cupertino, California-based company unveiled faster Power Macs that analysts and Mac users say could close the "gigahertz gap" with PCs.
[January 28, 2002, 16:20]
Symantec Chief Executive Advocates Fair Play - And Macs
News However, Thompson noted that if more and more people did go out and buy Macs, virus writers might change their tactics. It doesn't appear that Symantec chief executive John Thompson's next computer will run Windows.
[May 16, 2006, 9:20]
Apple Aims To Hush Recent Power Macs
News Apple Computer is offering owners of some of its recently introduced Power Macs the ability to make their machines a little less noisy. The Mac maker on Friday quietly unveiled a programme that lets owners of some Power Macs swap out their existing...
[February 24, 2003, 11:19]
Researcher: Macs Not As Expensive As Thought
News Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said that his research shows an average price difference of only 13 percent for desktops and 10 percent for laptops, once you narrow the comparison to Windows PCs that use the same components found in Macs.
[May 17, 2006, 9:35]
Jobs: G5 Power Macs Will Outperform Any Windows PC
News Apple chief executive Steve Jobs rolled out on Monday a new crop of Power Macs that he says can outperform any Windows-based PC on the market. Speaking at the company's annual developer conference, Jobs announced that the Power Macs will be built...
[June 24, 2003, 9:16]
Adobe To Release Premiere Pro For Macs
News Adobe Systems said that it will release its Premiere Pro video-editing software on Intel-based Macs by the middle of this year. Until now, Premiere Pro had been available only on older versions of the Mac.
[January 4, 2007, 7:52]
Freebie Plants OS X In Older Macs
News Users of older Power Macs last week gained new access to Mac OS X, courtesy of a free utility. Ryan Rempel's Unsupported UtilityX, available for free download from Other World Computing's Web site, enables processor-upgraded Macs or other Power Mac...
[July 3, 2001, 12:33]
Apple Eyes CD-RW Drives For Macs
News After admitting that it "missed the boat" in adopting recordable CD technology for its hardware, Apple is reportedly looking at options for incorporating CD-ReWritable drives into the next crop of Macs.
[December 8, 2000, 8:50]
Adobe Takes Macs Out Of The Frame
News Adobe raised the hackles of Mac fans last year, when it republished test results that indicate that computers with Microsoft's Windows operating system may run some of its applications faster than Macs do.
[March 24, 2004, 11:05]
BBC: IPlayer Download Version Coming To Macs
News The service has been available in streaming form for Macs and Linux — in addition to Windows XP and Vista — since December last year. BBC statistics suggest around 90 percent of people using the streaming version of iPlayer are running Windows...
[February 11, 2008, 7:24]
BBC Launches IPlayer Service For Macs And Linux
News But Anthony Rose, the BBC's Head of Digital Media Technology, has now said the corporation is aiming to launch a download version for other platforms "including Macs" in 2008. A streaming version of the BBC's iPlayer online TV on-demand service has...
[December 17, 2007, 7:50]
VMware Announces Virtualisation Software For Macs
News Windows compatibility with Macintosh machines is expected to be a hot topic at Monday's WWDC event, as it has been since the technology was made possible with the introduction of Intel-based Macs. It has already been announced that Apple's own Boot...
[August 8, 2006, 15:50]
Intel Macs Will Struggle With Vista
Talkback In regards to vista support, the 64bit Pro Macs with 64bit intel processors will support the EFI boot process. Vista will implement EFI in 64bit versions. Apple Pro towers will support 64bit processors from Intel.
[March 11, 2006, 3:07]
Windows And Intel Macs: What You Need To Know
News Apple's announcement of new Macs based on processors from Intel raises an interesting question: Since both the Mac and Windows operating systems now run on Intel-based hardware, shouldn't it be easy to run both on the same computer?
[January 24, 2006, 13:50]
