http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/imac.windows.7.timing.help.apple.sales/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/imac27inch-logo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Mac desktops represented nearly half of all desktops sold at US retail shops in October, the NPD Group said in a new study. About 47.7 percent of desktop revenue was from iMacs, Mac minis or Mac Pros, an increase from 45 percent in April and a sharp surge from just 33 percent in October 2008. Mac notebooks also saw a sequential gain from 30 percent in April to 34 percent last month, though this ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/imac.windows.7.timing.help.apple.sales/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/discounts.may.exceed.apples.own/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/macbookpro15.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Several websites have already begun Mac-related Black Friday sales, including MacMall, OnSale, ClubMac and MacConnection. MacMall is selling Minis for $550 and $745, a 2.66GHz MacBook Pro for $1,799, and a 27-inch, 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo iMac for $1,585. Its MacBook Airs are priced at $1,399 and $1,690.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/discounts.may.exceed.apples.own/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/14/apple.may.get.early.use.of.gulftown.xeon/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/macpro-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple may have a temporary exclusive on Intel's fastest workstation Xeons early next year, a purported leak argues tonight. An unnamed source says Apple is readying a Mac Pro based on the Xeon version of Intel's Gulftown six-core architecture and that the Mac builder would have a short exclusive for the processors, launching its own workstations in the winter while everyone else would have to wai... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/14/apple.may.get.early.use.of.gulftown.xeon/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/13/supports.up.to.four.drives/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/transdx4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Trans International has introduced the DX4, a new drive mount for Mac Pros. The unit fits inside a Pro's case, and supports up to four 2.5-inch SSD or conventional hard drives. Using a third-party SAS/SATA RAID adapter, drives can be connected in RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or JBOD configurations.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/13/supports.up.to.four.drives/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/11/imac.update.targets.ati.video.card.problems/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/imac.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has posted two new firmware updates, addressing separate pieces of hardware. The iMac Graphics FW Update 1.0.2 fixes stability problems on iMacs running an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro video card, or else the Radeon HD 2400 XT. Systems must also be operating on Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/11/imac.update.targets.ati.video.card.problems/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/10/matrox.mxo2.le/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/matroxmxo2le.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Matrox this evening launched a new portable breakout box aimed specifically at Mac users editing at a pro level with Final Cut Studio. The MXO2 LE takes SDI, component, RCA and 10-bit HDMI video input from cameras or other sources and puts them in formats immediately usable by Color, Final Cut Pro and other apps in the suite, such as Apple's in-house ProRes 4:2:2 HQ format. It can also work with... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/10/matrox.mxo2.le/ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/04/radeon.hd.5800.five.parts/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/atiradeonhd4870.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5800 line will have five models by the time it's complete, a detailed leak of data shows. The 5870 and 5850 known to be launching first are now believed by Xbit to be just upper mid-range parts that would replace the 4870 and 4850 sold today. Falling under the codename Juniper, they would use the same processor as higher-end chips but would be eclipsed by two higher-end model... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/04/radeon.hd.5800.five.parts/ Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/04/intel.xeon.w5590.and.more/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/intelxeon5500.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel on Tuesday afternoon upped the performance of its Xeon line by adding a new flagship model as well as three new models for simpler workstations and servers. The 3.33GHz Xeon W5590 boosts the speed of the quad-core, dual-socket Xeon beyond its previous 3.2GHz ceiling. It has the same 6.4 gigatransfer per second (GTps), point-to-point interface bus as Intel's best processors as well as 8MB o... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/04/intel.xeon.w5590.and.more/ Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/03/intel.westmere.spotted/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/intelwestmere-leak.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel's six-core Xeon processor, known as Westmere, has been seen in a leak of an engineering sample today [caution: may not be safe for work). Still identified as a mainstream Core i7 chip by software, the Xeon W5590 example runs at a relatively low 2.4GHz clock speed but has 12MB of Level 3 cache shared between all cores and 256KB of Level 2 cache for each core. With Hyperthreading, which runs... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/03/intel.westmere.spotted/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/09/transintl.ships.new.sleds/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0907/transintl-macprosled-09.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Trans International has launched 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch Mac Pro hard disk sleds, allowing Mac Pro owners to swap out hard disks and solid state drives. The sleds allow for keeping numerous drives on hand for swapping out -- backing up RAIDs or databases or keeping client projects on separate drives. The SATA-based sleds are available in two configurations, one for 2006/2007/2008- model year Mac Pro... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/09/transintl.ships.new.sleds/ Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:35:00 GMT