Blu-ray recordable drive for Macs

July 1, 2008

Is it moment to finally put your HD mountain biking documentary on Blu-ray? Apple upgrade vendor MCE Technologies announced availability of a totally Mac-compatible Blu-ray recordable drive for Mac Pro and capability Mac.

The $499 (internal) drive is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.2 and later,…

ZDNet Mac Pro and Xserve overclocking tool

June 29, 2008

One area that the Mac has faraway lagged behind its PC counterparts is in custom tuning, particularly overclocking. With the Intel Macs that has naturally started to change, though the toolset for overclocking in OS X has been rather barebones. So it’s interesting to see that the German division…

ArchiCAD 12: Multi-core architectural powerhouse

June 17, 2008

I have several consulting clients who are architects, all of whom use ArchiCAD to create stunning designs and manage the process of documentation. They’re going to be very happy architects in July, since Graphisoft is providing multi-core support in the upcoming release of ArchiCAD 12.

In add…

Graphics Powerhouse: ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac & PC edition

June 15, 2008

Mac Pro users — it’s day to ability up the graphics capability of your machine! ATI has announced the new Radeon HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition. Whether you’re a serious gamer or a graphics designer, that new card features 256-bit 512MB GDDR4 frame buffer memory, 320 stream processors, twin dual-…