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 | This week's news starts off with Apple announcing it will be enhancing its support forums by adding social networking features. I'm not sure how helpful that is for a support forum. Stop by and let me know what you think. The other news is that Apple has started delivering Mac Pros almost a week ahead of the original shipping estimate. That's good news for all of us who ordered the new model. Finally, I updated the reviews of the new iMac models. The updated reviews go into more detail about the models and their features and benefits. | |
Apple Starts Shipping New Mac Pros
What a nice surprise this morning: an email from Apple informing me that the Mac Pro I ordered on August 9th has shipped. The shipment is just shy of a week early from Apple's original estimate of August 23rd. With any luck, I'll have some preliminary benchmarks on the Mac Pro around the middle of next week. In the meantime, I'm off to order some additional RAM for the Mac Pro... Read more
| Updated: 21.5-inch iMac 2010 Review
Apple's latest update to the popular iMac brings Intel's iX line of processors to the entire lineup. The 21.5-inch model gets three processor options: a 3.06 GHz or 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3 in the two standard models, and a 3.60 GHz Intel Core i5 in a build-to-order configuration. Apple has kept the best features of the previous iMacs and added more speed and better graphics performance. What's not to like?... Read more
| Updated: 27-inch iMac 2010 Review
The 2010 update to the 27-inch iMac is mainly a speed bump, slipping in higher clock speeds for the Quad-Core i5 and Quad-Core i7 models. The more drastic change, and one for the better I might add, is that Apple finally leaves behind the Intel Core 2 Duo line of processors and now supplies an Intel Dual-Core i3 for the entry-level 27-inch iMac... Read more
| Adobe Illustrator CS5 Review: New Tools, Features, and Fun
Adobe Illustrator CS5 is a winner. It offers new features that users have been asking for, and refines many existing tools to perform even better. New perspective tools will have you creating dramatic visual scenes, and the new Bristle Brush and Beautiful Strokes tools will create just the flair your images need. If you're a fan of the Artboards introduced in CS4, CS5 enhances their capabilities and makes managing up to 100 in a single file a cakewalk. This may be the best version of Illustrator yet... Read more
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