There’s something very important missing from the new line of MacBooks that Apple introduced today: FireWire ports. Here’s the port lineup for the new MacBooks: MagSafe power port Gigabit Ethernet port Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps) Mini DisplayPort Audio line in Audio line out Kensington lock slot Yep – if you’ve bought […]

Music Marketing is now shipping the Professional C6 and C6x computers, compact Windows audio workstations. The C6 with 2GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM powered by an Intel 3.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, and the C6x with 4GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM powered by an Intel 2.5 GHz Core 2 Quad processor both offer two internal […]

If you’re doing audio work on Windows, Rain Recording may have just released your dream machine. They’ve introduced the ION 64, a true 64-bit computing platform designed for audio and video production. Powered by two AMD Opteron Quad Core processors, the ION 64 has eight processor cores, up to 64 gigabytes of RAM, and room […]

Other World Computing announced today the availability of 802.11n WiFi Adapters that promise to let any Macintosh computer upgrade to 802.11n wireless connectivity via USB, PCMCIA, or PCI card options. With 802.11n, indoor ranges of up to 220 feet (outdoor up to 500 feet) and performance of up to 300Mbps are possible — or up […]

In the last year or so, everybody and their mother seems to have taken time off from the social media fad of the day to blog that podcasting is dead: Information Week says podcasting is dead. John Dvorak says podcasting is dead. The Bioscience Education Journal says podcasting is dead. PodShow thinks podcasting is dead, […]

Apple today updated iMac line with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and the most powerful graphics ever available in an iMac. The iMac now includes faster processors with 6MB L2 cache and a faster 1066 MHz front-side bus across the entire line, and 2GB of memory standard in most models. The 24-inch iMac […]

In a paper published in today’s issue of Science, a team at IBM’s research centre in San Jose, California, said they have developed a new type of digital storage which would enable a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs – or 3,500 films – and cost far less […]

Much as the movie industry would like to avoid having Apple becoming the dominant digital vendor for digital movies as it has in the world of digital music, Apple is doing it anyway. While the movie and television industry experiments with a bunch of incompatible standards and technologies, Apple has been inexorably putting together a […]

Rain Recording has introduced a new Windows digital audio workstation, Solstice Spider Edition. Rain‚Äôs new audio + gaming workstation includes an AMD Phenom 9000 Series quad-core processor, the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series GPU, and the AMD 7-Series chipset. ‚ÄúRain has seen the convergence of our audio workstations for the purpose of not only music […]

Apple today updated its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and Apple‚Äôs Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in MacBook […]