Archive for January, 2009
500gb 7200rpm 2.5″ Drives shipping
Awesome. $140 shipped, Seagate p/n ST9500420AS.
Samsung releases 4 Gigabit memory chip
Samsung has announced the world’s first 4 Gigabit (not Gigabyte) DDR3 memory chip. What does this mean for you? It means that we’ll be seeing 32GB memory chips soon! Holy beans! Samsung has announced that the first modules will come in 16gb (server), 8gb (desktop) and 8gb (laptop) varieties, followed by 32gb modules. I can’t [...]
2TB Drive up for Grabs
Western Digital has announced the Caviar Green 2TB 3.5″ hard drive for $299 today. HotHardware has already done a review on it. It formats out to 1.81TB and does a 90 MB/s read and 80 MB/s write, almost as good as the 100 MB/s Samsung F1 1TB hard drive ($99). It’s three times the price [...]
MSI WindBOX officially released!
Leaked last November, the MSI WindBOX has been officially released! This is basically a netbook sans the screen, ready to mount on your LCD monitor. Features:
VESA wall-mount interface
Atom N270 single-core 1.6ghz 2.5w processor (with SSE3)
945GSE Express chipset
GMA950 graphics
1GB RAM (included, max)
VGA port
3 USB ports
802.11 b/g
Realtek 10/100 LAN
Card Reader (SD/MMC/Memory Stick)
I haven’t seen a price, but [...]
Quicktime Update fixes 10.5.6 Mouse Issues
I snagged the latest Quicktime update from Apple Software Update today and it appears to have completely solved my 10.5.6 mouse jitter problems (the non-iTunes bug). I had previously posted that using the Logitech LCC software had fixed it, but I still noticed some jitter from time to time, almost as if the system wanted [...]
New Snow Leopard info
Netkas released some new Snow Leopard info:
ATI 4800-series now supported (4870×2, whoohoo!)
Core i7 Processor support
No support for hardware acceleration on the ATI 2600 or 3800 series (boo!)
Possibly NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 & 280 support
Unified ATI framebuffer kext (with plugins for specific models)
Most apps & drivers are 32/64-bit now
More info to come…
via Netkas
Market Infiltration Techniques
Microsoft has long been the dominant king of the consumer PC market, but that is beginning to change. Last April, Fortune stated that Apple’s worldwide marketshare was at 10%, and even more impressively, was 21% within the U.S. That’s like someone stealing a slice of your pizza, instead of just mooching off a pepperoni or [...]
Is Steve Job’s health a marketing ploy?
Before I begin, I want to say that I am not in any way mocking Steve Job’s health. But…do you think that perhaps, maybe, Apple is pimping it just a little? We all knew that, eventually, Steve Job’s days at Apple would come to an end, either through retirement or death. By capitalizing on his [...]
That was easy
Hackintosh frustrating you? Try my Easy Button! Stick it in the Dock and click on it whenever you need some relief. Uses the “say” command in Terminal, built in Playtpus, icon via Img2icns. Enjoy!
Update: Now with 100% more masking! Thanks bibendum :)
Download here
Cheap Wifi
Newer Technology, Inc., has released a line of OS X-compatible Wifi adapters, including a USB stick and a PCI card. There is also a PCMCIA card for those of you with laptop Hackintoshes. All cards are Mac & PC compatible, meaning they should work fine on our Hackintoshes. Pricing is as follows:
802.11 B/G USB [...]