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news of 2003-01-17

'chm' - New Author At macnews.net.tc

We welcome chm as our newest addition to the team. We hope you'll enjoy his articles as much as we do. I continue my most stressful weeks in a long time and will check in from time to time... (fryke)

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[ written by fryke™ on 2003-01-17 at 21:57 CET ]
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PPC 7457

MacBidouille reports a rumor that the Motorola PPC 7457 chip is in production. The chip is built with 0.13 micron technology, sports a 512 KB L2 cache and can support DDR bus speeds up to 200 MHz. The processor speeds will likely max out at 1.3 to 1.4 GHz, which is not a huge increase compared to the now available 1.25 GHz processors, however, the new 7457 chips supposedly run about 33% cooler. This should allow apple to build quieter PowerMacs since they won’t need so much cooling. The added L2 cache compared to the current processors should help speed some things up as well. (chm)

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[ written by fryke™ on 2003-01-17 at 21:17 CET ]
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Mac OS X 10.2.4

ThinkSecret reports that Apple has seeded OS X Server v. 10.2.4 (build 6I13) to developers.

Meanwhile MacBidouille says that build 6I14 of OS X v. 10.2.4 is available to ADC members.

MacRumors adds: “ For reference, the lead time for the 10.2.3 seed to GM was approximately four weeks... but this time-frame is certainly not set in stone.” (chm)

-> Read more at: ThinkSecret
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[ written by fryke™ on 2003-01-17 at 21:13 CET ]
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Windows GUI On Linux Core?

Cringley gets it all wrong in his editorial. At least most of it. He thinks Windows XP is still based on DOS, which is, of course, wrong. Yet, the idea to give Windows an open source core - much as Apple did with Mac OS X - could be a way for Microsoft to further break linux' momentum (and Apple's, maybe). Read the article linked below. It's quite funny how he's misinterpreting things... (fryke)

-> Read more at: I, Cringley
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[ written by fryke™ on 2003-01-17 at 15:08 CET ]
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Macromedia Buys Presedia

MacCentral writes: "Express will allow non-technical professionals to use existing office productivity tools like Microsoft PowerPoint, annotate their presentations with audio, and combine these two elements into a streaming Macromedia Flash application delivered via a hosted or licensed solution. The content can contain slides, audio, animations, quizzes and surveys. The system tracks and reports results, and can also be integrated with existing learning management systems."

Will Macromedia make this software compatible with Keynote.app? :) (fryke)

-> Read more at: MacCentral Article
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[ written by fryke™ on 2003-01-17 at 15:02 CET ]
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