Leaked Best-Buy Inventory Screens - Multi-Touch MacBook Pros on the Way?
Following reports that three new MacBook Pro models had been spotted in Best Buy's inventory, screenshots are now available to back that story up.
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3.2.2008 Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac OS X
There has been a consistent amount of “ink” spilled over comparing Windows, Linux and Mac OS X this month. The reports have generated some controversy, because they point out that Windows delivers a more secure platform than Linux and Mac OS X.
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30.3.2007 Download Mac OS X 10.5.6 Now
Not surprisingly, Apple has released Mac OS X Update version 10.5.6 for both Client and Server users of the Mac OS. Weighing in at around 370MB and 470MB respectively, the two updates are immediately available to download and install on Leopard-running Macs.
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15.12.2008 Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.8
Apple on Friday pushed what is likely the second-to-last update to Mac OS X 10.4, code-named "Tiger." The update includes several fixes to printing, Finder and Apple applications and networking, as well as several third-party fixes among other modifications.
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30.9.2006 Mac OS X Leopard vs. Windows Vista
HardwareLogic has partnering up with Newegg to sponsor the User Guide Of The Month.
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8.5.2007 Mac OS X Leopard: A Guided Tour
To further promote the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, which Apple Incorporated has announced will be available on October 26, the company has posted a guide tour to promote the release of the latest version of its operating system.
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20.10.2007 Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard
Apple has announced the roll out of v10.6.1 Update for their existing OS X Snow Leopard users.
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11.9.2009 Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Win 7?
Yesterday there appeared an interview with a Microsoft group manager who claimed that Microsoft copied the “Mac look and feel in terms of graphics” in Windows 7.
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12.11.2009 Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X "Tiger
From Paul Thurrotte's SuperSite:
In part one of my comparison of Windows Vista Beta 1 and Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger," I looked at three key aspects of each system: Look and feel, desktop search, and data visualization and organization. For the most part, OS X came out well ahead of Windows Vista, as you'd expect, since it's a polished finished product. Vista, meanwhile, is all knees and elbows, an awkward teenager on its way to maturity.
. Microsoft will iron out the details, I'm sure, but the end result will likely not change much. Specifically, OS X will always be elegant, and Windows will almost certainly lag behind in the fit and finish department. The only questions are how much Vista will improve when compared to previous Windows versions, and whether it will be enough to keep customers from moving to OS X.
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29.11.2005 Contest winner: Vista more secure than Mac OS
Dino Dai Zovi, the New York-based security researcher who took home $10,000 in a highly-publicized MacBook Pro hijack on April 20, has been at the center of a week’s worth of controversy about the security of Apple’s operating system.
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1.5.2007 Vista use grows as Mac OS X stays flat
Windows Vista's share of online users has increased every month this year, while rival Mac OS X -- to which Vista has often been compared -- has shown little, if any, growth, a metrics company reports.
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24.7.2007 Hackers Open Up Mac OS X Leopard for PC
Apple has a new set of hackers to contend with: a group of developers on the OSx86Scene forum have published instructions on how to install Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on a standard PC.
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1.11.2007 Mac OS 10.5.2 = Vista made in Apple?
I’ve heard many different complaints about Mac OS 10.5.2 since it was released, from my own Skype/podcasting problems to issues with just about everything else, including: printing, third-party wireless routers, software freezing and problems with Time Machine.
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5.5.2008 Mac OS X Snow Leopard Theme for Windows 7
Windows 7 Themes Gallery has been updated with three new themes – based on the original wallpapers pack from the upcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 release.
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12.8.2009 Download Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard
Mac OS X 10.6.2 has finally arrived and it brings tons of new bug fixes for existing OS X Snow Leopard users
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10.11.2009 Apple names Mac OS X Leopard: Windows Vista 2.0
Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference that started today will apparently be the host of a surprising and clear shot at Microsoft’s next-generation OS Vista. This is probably how Steve Jobs is hoping to attract attention on his Macintosh alternative, Leopard OS.
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7.8.2006 Vista puts Mac OS X font rendering to shame
One of the first things I noticed when I switched to Windows Vista earlier this year was how much of an improvement in font readability Vista has over earlier versions of Windows for the screen fonts.
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17.8.2007 Want Security? Drop Windows and Move to Linux, or Mac OS X
There is no silver bullet solution for security, and no foolproof client operating system. But the fact of the matter is that while neither Linux, nor Mac OS X and not even Windows Vista are panacea solutions for protecting users, they are all less attacked than Windows XP and older versions of the Microsoft platform.
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10.9.2007 Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to Take a Bite Out of Windows Vista?
The gap between the 2001 release of Windows XP and that of Windows Vista in 2007, created a window of opportunity for the growth of rival operating systems from Apple and the open source community.
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10.10.2007 Windows Vista vs. Mac OS X vs. Linux - for the Last Time in 2007
At the end of 2007 one thing is clear... Windows Vista is far from the Wow revelation that Microsoft aimed for with the late January worldwide consumer launch.
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1.1.2008 Apple previews Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"
Apple surprised many today when it announced it would be previewing the next version of the operating system that runs on its Mac line of desktops and notebooks, Mac OS X 10.6, aka "Snow Leopard".
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10.6.2008 Vista SP1 and XP SP3 vs. Mac OS X and Linux
Despite constantly downplaying the relevance of Linux and Mac OS X, because of a variety of reasons, from high Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to security risks and inferior shipment volumes, Microsoft is well aware of the real threat to Windows represented by the open source platform and Apple's operating system.
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1.8.2008 Microsoft Brings a Piece of Windows Vista to Linux and Mac OS X
Microsoft has announced that it will bring a small piece of Vista to both the open source Linux operating system and the UNIX based Mac OS X. The Redmond company's partners will work to extend Network Access Protection to Linux and OS X desktops.
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13.11.2007 Mac OS X and Linux Continue to Erode Windows' Install Base
Apple's Mac OS X and the open source Linux operating systems continue to erode the install base of Microsoft's proprietary platform. According to statistics made available by Net Applications, Windows accounted for a market share of no less than 93.06% back in August 2007.
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2.9.2008 Vista SP2 and Windows 7 More Secure than Linux and Mac OS X Leopard
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is the absolute apex in security when it comes down to operating systems, Kevin Turner, chief operating officer for Microsoft, has indicated at the Midmarket CIO Summit earlier this week.
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12.4.2009 Windows 7, Linux and Mac OS Start the Market Share Ballet
At almost six months since it was initially introduced to the public in Beta stage, Windows 7 has gathered an audience almost half the size of all distributions of Linux available on the market, according to statistics from Net Applications.
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2.6.2009 Apple monster update fixes iPhone, Safari, Mac OS X flaws
Apple has issued a monster update with patches for about 50 security vulnerabilities affecting iPhone, Safari and Mac OS X users.
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1.8.2007 Vista Growing to Match the Lack of Security of XP, Mac OS X and Linux
Microsoft has touted Windows Vista as the most secure Windows operating system available, ever since the debut of the Wow.
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15.8.2007 Attacks on Mac OS X Exploded by 1,550% in 2007 – Just a 36% Growth for Windows
Windows is without a doubt the most attacked platform in the world. Microsoft's proprietary operating system attracts no less than 96.36% of the world's malicious code, according to malware statistics for 2007, released by Kaspersky.
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28.2.2008 Linux and Mac OS X Eat Away at Windows, Even with XP SP3 and Vista SP1
Even with the latest service pack releases for the two supported Windows clients, rival operating systems Linux and Mac OS X are still eating away at the install base of Microsoft's proprietary operating system.
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3.7.2008For Mac OS or Windows? Multi-touch displays in production
According to reports from Stuff.tv, following a recent visit to one of LG's display factories, it appears that LG is preparing to ship multi-touch
screens. There are rumors arising that the displays are for Apple and a future multi-touch iMac. Apple has stated quite clearly that multi-touch will
not be a feature available on their desktop or notebook line in the near future, yet the rumor mill still brewed and with the discovery of these LG
screens, is brewing further. It is also possible that these displays could be LCDs for the upcoming Windows 7 release or merely displays for
manufacturers other than Apple.
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28.11.2008Microsoft Research demonstrates laptop-compatible multi-touch displays
The word of 2007 is
"multi-touch". Its
everywhere, from the iPhone to
the Microsoft Surface. We
werent happy with just one
finger on the touch-sensitive
screens, we wanted to put all
10 fingers and probably some
toes on too, and multi-touch
was born.
(Credit: Long Zheng
from
istartedsome
thing.com)
The idea of having a
multi-touch-capable laptop
sounds pretty sweet, but of
course no one would want to
carry a cathode-ray-tube in
their backpack, so how do you
come up with a solution for a
screen less than an inch
thick? Microsoft Research
Cambridges Steve Hodges might
have the answer...
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20.06.2007Apple awarded multi-touch patent
Apple has been awarded a patent protecting their touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying
heuristics. Commonly used in the iPhone, this protects the method of multi touch and could cause issues for devices such as the recently announced
Palm Pre and Microsoft's Surface machines. According to World of Apple the patent awarded was number 7,479,949 on January 20, 2009. Originally
applied for on April 11, 2008, the patent covers multi-touch and all associated gestures such as pinch, swipe and rotation. Image courtesy of Mac
Rumors Steve Jobs is listed as one of the inventors in the patent. Do you think this will cause issues for multi touch devices going forward?
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27.01.2009Notebook players paying close attention to multi-touch
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is planning to stir up the touch panel notebook market with multi-touch technology at the end of this year, and with Windows 7,
which according to Microsoft will include features to take advantage of multi-touch capabilities, on the horizon, notebook industry players are paying
close attention to the development of multi-touch technologies.
Touch panel tablet PCs are mostly niche market products currently and
usually single-touch only due to costs and limited software support. However, notebook industry players believe multi-touch has the potential to take
off in the mainstream market thanks to handset devices such as the iPhone. Windows 7 will also be key for promoting multi-touch since it enables
multi-touch interfaces as part of the Windows operating system, the sources noted.
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17.10.2008Apple adds new CPUs, Multi-Touch trackpad to MacBook Pro
Apple on Tuesday updated its entire laptop line with faster processors, more storage and memory, along with adding its Multi-Touch trackpad to the
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26.02.2008MS confirms Windows Mobile 7 multi-touch, iPhone rivalry
Microsoft has confirmed in a
preview of Windows Mobile 6.5 that version 7 of the mobile OS will include multi-touch and will be targeted at the same high-end
market as Apple's iPhone or most current Android phones. The company promises to the
Inquirer that multi-touch will be a core feature of
Windows Mobile 7 and that many of the experiences of competing phones will be "knocked in the different realm" of Microsoft's new platform.
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03.08.2009Windows 7 multi-touch LCD demonstrated
Multi-touch is one of the big technology trends these days: Bill gates recently demonstrated a display integrating multi-touch at the recent D6
conference and unfortunately received little more than lukewarm feedback. Albatron is one of the first companies demonstrating what appears to be a
production ready multi-touch device: Having played with the LCD at Computex, we have to say that we are impressed.
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04.06.2008Apple patent highlights multi-touch Nano wheels
News posted on AppleInsider's website today draws attention to the possibility of a new generation of multi-touch iPods. This exciting news was
discovered by the people at AppleInsider who claim to have discovered a recent patent filing by the designers at Apple detailing the detection of:
"input gestures that traverse the center of the scroll wheel and to detect multi-touch input." The possibility of this new fifth-generation Nano
will be the first to detect multi-touch gestures through its new, and slightly smaller click wheel and may also have an added extra in the form of a
camera. AppleInsider expects this to be released sometime this Autumn.
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05.06.2009Windows 7 multi-touch SDK being readied for PDC in October
As details continue to emerge about Microsoft's evidently well-made plans for its next operating system, we learn that full documentation for how
multi-touch capabilities will work in Windows, will be ready for demonstration by this fall...
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29.05.2008How To Develop Multi-Touch Apps for Windows 7 - Video
It goes without saying that for multi-touch to be successful in Windows 7 and beyond, there will have to be healthy ecosystem of applications that
enable people to use their computer in ways they have not even dreamt of yet. It will have to go beyond zooming and panning.
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30.10.2008Android's lack of multi-touch due to Apple?
Google's move into the mobile market space gave the consumer another choice for a mobile platform. It's is also no secret that Apple and
Google work closely together on products and according to one source Apple told Google to not include multi-touch on its Android platform. While it
would be easy to ignore this "source" there seems to be quite a bit of credibility to the matter. Firstly, the G1 and Android do support
multi-touch; if the phone has the hardware and software backing for the technology why wouldn't they include it? The source claims that Apple
asked Google to forgo including the technology.
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10.02.2009Introducing the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7
At Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference
about a year ago today, Julie
Larson-Green first introduced Walt Mossberg to Windows 7 and its multi-touch capabilities, which we call Windows Touch. While weve been working on
bringing natural user interface to you in many Microsoft products, we first introduced multi-touch in
Microsoft Surface. Since then, the Windows and Surface development teams have been collaborating
closely on bringing multi-touch to Windows, and last year demoed a few applications they created to run on Windows 7. Today, we thought it would be
fitting on this śanniversaryť of first talking about Windows Touch to introduce the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7.
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28.05.2009Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.9
Apple on Tuesday released what
is likely to be its final
update to Mac OS 10.4
"Tiger" before it
releases Leopard this spring.
Included in the patch are
fixes for .Mac, Bluetooth, Mac
OS X's standard productivity
applications, networking, and
printing, among other issues...
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14.03.2007HP takes multi-touch to notebooks with TouchSmart tx2
HP has today announced the TouchSmart tx2 - a notebook that it's claiming is the world's first to feature a multi-touch screen.
The TouchSmart tx2 takes the multi-touch technology found in HP's TouchSmart desktops, along with its custom HP MediaSmart software, and promises
to deliver digital content at the touch of a finger.
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19.11.2008First multi-touch tablet from Toshiba available today
Toshiba made available today its 9th generation M700 tablet PC, the current highest-end tablet PC offered by the company, and the first to offer
multi-touch capability...
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11.12.2007Apple Issues Mac OS X 10.4.4,
iLife '06
FROM MACWORLD Apple on
Tuesday will release Mac OS X
10.4.4, along with new Widgets
from Google and ESPN. An
address book and calendar
Widget for Apple's Dashboard
will also be available. 10.4.4
has long been rumored to be
the version of Mac OS X
compatible with Intel based
Macs...
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10.01.2006Asustek's new Eee PC to sport multi-touch trackpad
The next generation Eee PC laptop by Asustek Computer will come with a multi-touch trackpad in addition to the larger screen, better Web cam and
increased data storage, a company representative said Thursday.
The Eee PC 900 boasts an 8.9-inch screen, larger than the 7-inch
display on the original Eee PC 701 model, along with a 1.3-megapixel camera and 12G-byte solid-state disk drive (SSD). The Web cam on the Eee PC 701
is only 0.3-megapixels and the largest SSD is 8G-bytes.
The Eee PC 900's oversized touchpad works similar to the Macbook Air.
Using two fingers, a person can zoom in and out of documents and photos, scroll up and down, and more, an Asustek representative said.
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27.03.2008MIT's $100 Laptop to be
Demoed
A working prototype of the
much anticipated MIT $100
laptop will be shown off at a
U.N. technology conference on
Wednesday. While there is
still much development to be
done, production could begin
in late 2006 or early 2007.
MIT says it will include open
source software, snubbing an
offer to use Mac OS X for
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15.11.2005Snow Leopard will know your location, via the Internet
AppleInsider is reporting that the recent build of Snow Leopard, 10A261, commonly known as Beta 3, will use triangulation features via the Internet to
pinpoint your location. Not only this, but Apple has helped developers out by including a new multi-touch framework, allowing people creating programs
for Mac OS X to make better use of the recently released aluminium MacBooks and MacBook Pros. The new location framework, dubbed CoreLocation, and
will use the same system the original iPhone and iPod touch uses to find the users' location, as, of course, many computers don't have a GPS
to make it easier.
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06.02.2009Mac OS X Snow Leopard reaches Golden Master
According to several sources in contact with MacRumors.com, Mac OS X 10.6 Build 10A432 has been designated as the Golden Master. This build is the
final release out of the development team and will likely be the final shipping version. Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard, represents a series of
changes to the operating system for increased performance over Mac OS 10.5 or Leopard. Technologies include Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL and now
most system applications will be 64-bit. Snow Leopard is also the first Mac OS release without PowerPC support.
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