Performance Related Hardware Announced by Apple
- Unibody 17" MacBook Pro with up to 2.93GHz clock speed and up to 8 GB of RAM. It also supports up to 8 hours battery life. CTO options include a 256GB SSD and matte display finish.
Third Party Performance Related Hardware
- Other World Computing is showing the HighPoint RocketRAID 4322 in booth 2218. It supports up to 8 external drives on the Mac Pro at over 1000MB/s. Check out OWC's 936 Rack Solutions, too.
- Wiebetech has announced a Photo Contest to win a free RTX400 4-bay quad-interface SATA enclosure.
Third Party Performance Related Software
- Roxio has launched Toast 10 Titanium Pro whose new features include support for backup of original video from AVCHD camcorders direct to DVD or BD media in one easy step and addition of over 20 new DVD and Blu-ray Disc menu styles.
- FileMaker 10 has a dramatically improved user interface.
- Parallels Desktop for Mac 4.0 build 3810 adds DirectX 9.0 with Shaders Model 2 support and SSE4 support.
Summary Thoughts on MacWorld Expo
Nice to see the 17" MacBook Pro update. I hope Apple follows in a few weeks with an announcement of a "Nehalem" Mac Pro and "nVidia" iMac.
If you want to see the keynote, Apple has posted the QuickTime Replay of it.
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