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news of 2002-08-31

Mobility Radeon 9000 Review

Tom's Hardware has a review of the Mobility Radeon 9000 which will hopefully be making it's debut in the revised PowerBook G4 1GHz come late September. Like the desktop Radeon 9700, the Mobility Radeon 9000 is top of the crop for notebook graphics at the moment. (kendall)

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[ written by fryke™ on 2002-08-31 at 21:16 CET ]
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Look Ma, No Mouse!

After reading a story on Slashdot last week about a touchscreen iBook mod, I really didn't think much of it until finding yesterday that the entire Admissions department of my college uses touchscreen enabled 15" LCD iMacs. Two word, simply amazing. I stood in awe as a dozen iMacs were being used seemlessly without mice to do just about everything OS X is capable of. It was almost as if the GUI was designed unintentionally to be used with a touchscreen. Needless to say, I want one. Check out the link below for more information about touchscreen enabled Macs. (kendall)

-> Find out more at: Troll Touch
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[ written by fryke™ on 2002-08-31 at 20:54 CET ]
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Overclock Your 2002 iBook

Xlr8yourmac has a how-to for overclocking your 600 and 700MHz 2002 iBooks to 800MHz. Since you don't see the ability to do this often with Macs, I found it quite interesting. This is certainly not for every users but the tech-savy should have no problem. Also, I have no iBook nor any way of testing this hack so apply it at your own risk. For those of you able and willing to test this hack, please post your results in our comment section below. A 100 to 200MHz increase would certainly provide increased performance. >=] (kendall)

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[ written by fryke™ on 2002-08-31 at 19:59 CET ]
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Past And Future Combined To Fight Windows

Remember the roots of Mac OS X? No, I'm not talking about Mac OS 9. I'm talking about how NeXT's operating system was transported to the X86 platform as OpenStep. How OpenStep was ported to PowerPC as Rhapsody. How Rhapsody finally became Mac OS X. The most common part of all these operating environments is what we nowadays call Cocoa.

The object oriented application development platform is based on Objective-C, which is an objective derivate of the programming language C.

The folks at GNUstep have ported (read: are in the process of porting) 'Cocoa' to the Linux community. OSOpinion has a column about how the Linux and Mac OS X application development market could be combined, as those frameworks are highly compatible. (fryke)

-> Read more at: OSOpinion Column
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[ written by fryke™ on 2002-08-31 at 18:40 CET ]
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Technote To Jaguar

Apple just released a technote on Mac OS X 10.2 (release notes, bug fixes etc.) on ADC. (fryke)

-> Read more at: ADC Technote
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[ written by fryke™ on 2002-08-31 at 15:06 CET ]
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Once Upon A Time In Cupertino...

eWeek has a new article about Mac OS X on X86. The project dubbed 'Marklar' is basically just the ongoing process that didn't stop when Apple did not release the final version of the Rhapsody project (Mac OS X Server 1.0) for PC Compatibles. According to the source, which is ThinkSecret's Nick de Plume's source, Marklar is up to par with the latest Jaguar builds - but does not contain the Carbon APIs that would be necessary to run the 'interesting' applications like MS Office or Adobe's and Macromedia's software applications. As far as we know, the Carbon APIs have long been ported to X86, too. However, do not expect an X86 build of Mac OS X near you anytime soon. Apple is building those builds, but it's not in their interest at all to have it released (or leaked) unless it sees any profit from it. Next year, maybe, maybe never. (Contact us, though, if you get near such a Marklar build.) (fryke)

-> Read more at: eWeek Article
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[ written by fryke™ on 2002-08-31 at 08:19 CET ]
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