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/09/10/06/company.active.on.toxins.groups.say/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/green.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Two environmental advocacy groups have praised Apple in a joint report, newly distributed to the media. ChemSec and Clean Production Action claim that Apple is one of the more respectable companies in eliminating bromine and chlorine from its products, through an "innovative program that restricts the use of nearly all bromine and chlorine compounds across all their product lines," the groups say... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/06/company.active.on.toxins.groups.say/ Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/22/seagate.cheetah.savvio.sed.ship/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/seagatesed.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Seagate this morning promised a new level of security for work-oriented hard drives by shipping its first Self-Encrypted Drives (SED). The Cheetah 15K.7, Constellation, Savvio 10K.3 and Savvio 15K.2 all automatically protect data that isn't immediately being used. They all have an encryption engine that processes information on the fly but without slowing down the drives' actual speed.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/22/seagate.cheetah.savvio.sed.ship/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/21/seagate.barracuda.xt.2tb/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/seagatebarracuda7200-11-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Seagate today updated the Barracuda line to include the industry's first drive to use an 6Gbps SATA interface. The 2TB Barracuda XT has twice as much theoretical bandwidth as existing SATA II drives and gives the disk up to 600MBps in burst transfers. In actual speed, the drive is still fast with a 140MBps sustained transfer rate and is helped by Seagate's first use of 64MB of onboard cache for ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/21/seagate.barracuda.xt.2tb/ Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/17/simple.nas.shares.with.facebook.twitter.myspace/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/pogoplug_sml2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />CloudEngines has announced that its network device for USB storage, the Pogoplug, now connects directly with social networking portals. The company's service will also be available for customers purchasing Seagate's latest FreeAgent DockStar device. MacNN has taken a closer look at the original Pogoplug, including its simple configuration and the new social networking functionality. The full revie... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/17/simple.nas.shares.with.facebook.twitter.myspace/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/16/seagate.dockstar.and.1tb.go.drive/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/seagatedockstar.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Seagate pushed its external drive technology today by launching its first cradle for network-attached storage as well as capacity boosts for its more portable 2.5-inch external drives. The DockStar cradles a FreeAgent Go drive and links it over Ethernet to share its storage with the local network It's moreover one of the first third-party devices to have Pogoplug support and lets users download ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/16/seagate.dockstar.and.1tb.go.drive/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/15/seagate.updates.freeagent.media.hub/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/seagatefreeagenttheaterplushd.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Seagate today spun an important update to its FreeAgent networked media players. The FreeAgent Theater+ HD increases the maximum resolution for video to 1080p and adds support for DTS audio on top of Dolby Digital. Additionally, it now becomes networkable through an Ethernet jack that lets it stream content from other computers on the local network.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/15/seagate.updates.freeagent.media.hub/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/19/fujitsu.celsius.ultra.pc/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/fujicelsiusultraintro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Fujitsu's Celsius Ultra gaming PC, which is claimed to be the fastest air-cooled gaming system around, has been priced and images have been captured, as it has been tested by an independent source. The 3.33GHz Intel Core i7-powered system sports dual EVGA GeForce GTX 295 graphics cards set up in a 4-way SLI configuration on a single board. Each card has 1.8GB of dedicated RMA. The cards' cooling c... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/19/fujitsu.celsius.ultra.pc/ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/07/tdk.2.5tb.hard.drive.plans/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/wdcaviargreen2tb.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Advances in TDK's hard drive technology could lead to another large boost in the capacity of hard drives within a few months, a roadmap presented this week shows. The storage firm is currently going through qualification tests of 640GB drive platters that would fit into a typical 3.5-inch drive and so would allow significantly more storage than existing 2TB drives from Hitachi, Seagate and Wester... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/07/tdk.2.5tb.hard.drive.plans/ Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/24/seagate.freeagent.mac.2009/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0906/seagatefreeagentgomac.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Seagate today swept through its external hard drive line with a series of upgrades for just the Mac versions of its disks. Highlighting the launches is the FreeAgent Go Pro for Mac: the storage is one of the few wholly portable 2.5-inch external drives to include a FireWire 800 interface and also supports both FireWire 400 and USB. Every drive also spins at 7,200RPM and behaves more like a 3.5-i... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/24/seagate.freeagent.mac.2009/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/22/blackarmor.line.expands/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0906/Seagate-BlackArmor.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Seagate today introduced three new units to its BlackArmor line of external data storage. The additions involve the BlackArmor NAS 220 Storage Server, the BlackArmor WS110 External Drive Workstation, and the BlackArmor PS 110 Portable Drive. All of the BlackArmor units include a bare metal recovery feature and automated full-system backup. SafetyDrill software, used to restore system data if somet... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/22/blackarmor.line.expands/ Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT