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Initial tests show promising Thunderbolt speeds, ability to boot off new port

A newly published series of test results from the cool cats at AnandTech shows Apple’s newly adopted Thunderbolt technology blows FireWire 800 out of the water with data transfer speeds to an external RAID system at 700MB/s. After the release of Apple’s Thunderbolt cable on Tuesday, early impressions have begun to surface on the Web. […]

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Other World Computing offers 480GB solid state drive option for MacBook Air

It’s not cheap but it’s nifty and useful. Per Macworld, Other World Computing has announced the Mercury Aura Pro Express 480GB, which the company says is the largest high performance solid state drive available for the 2010 MacBook Air. The full Mercury Aura Pro Express line offers solid state upgrades for both the 11.6″ and […]

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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.7 update

Late Monday, Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.7, the most recent version of its Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” operating system. The update, which alternates between 313 MB and 1.12 gigabytes for the combo update, offers the following fixes and changes: – Improve the reliability of Back to My Mac. – Resolve an issue […]

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Apple releases long-awaited Mac OS X 10.6.5 update

After months of beta versions and development, Apple has released its Mac OS X 10.6.5 update for its Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” operating system. The update, which varies in size depending on your presently installed version of the operating system, personally weighed in at over a 500 megabyte download. The update offers the […]

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iPhone News

Legality of Chen/iPhone raid called into question

Following the police raid of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen (the editor who wrote about the now-infamous fourth-generation iPhone prototype), the examination of Chen’s seized computers has been put on hold. Gizmodo had paid US$5,000 for an iPhone prototype that had been accidentally left behind at a Silicon Valley bar and written extensively about the device. […]