Your loyal reporter took on himself to put his hands on an import Sony PSP and, as soon as he had it, instead of playing Ridge Racers like hell, faithfully tried to connect it to his Alubook and to his Airport Network...
Check what he found out
in his report...
Airport software has been updated. What's new, in brief :
- Hard reset behavior is improved.
- Improved reliability of WDS networks when using WPA security.
- Resolved an issue with inbound passive FTP to a port-mapped computer on the network
- Resolved an issue with certain printers which were no longer recognized by the base station after the 6.1 firmware update was installed.
AirPort Extreme 5.5.1 Updater :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportextremefirmware551formacosx.html
Airport Express 6.1.1 Updater :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportexpressfirmware611formacosx.html
When the 6xxx series was launched, NVidia briefly mentionned that the chip could encode and decode some video formats. 6 months later, the newest Windows drivers finally unleash some of those functions.
The marketing name of these functions is "PureVideo". They allow MPEG 1, 2, 4 and Windows Media hardware decoding.
If we don't really care about the later format, the MPEG capabilities would be more than welcomed by the owners of the expensive Geforce 6800, since it means better quality, and less load for the CPU, which would also mean, for PowerMac G5s, less noise.
NVidia has not yet enabled the encoding capabilities, but they might be available in a future revision of the drivers. That would certainly come in handy for semi-pros who need to encode a lot of video, and that could also push Apple to use 6xxx based cards in its line-up.
For a laptop, that'd mean more battery life when playing DVD.
For iDVD, that'd mean faster conversion phases, even on an iMac.
http://www.nvidia.com
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kurisu adds : a few ATI chips offer MPEG2 decoding capabilities]
Many of you guys have noticed a serious speed issue with Mail.app and iChat.app after updating to 10.3.7. We couldn't isolate the causes, but it's obviously tied to the network framework.
One of our forum members,
pallaire, seems to have found a solution, at least on his machine
About the lag that occurs upon launching Mail.app on 10.3.7.
It seems to be related to DNS.
I connect through DHCP behind a router, with a G5 dual 2GHz.
After I filled in the info about the DNS servers of my ISP in the network preferences panel, the app launched instantly. (before I had to wait over a minute)
Source : Clubic (in ze French)
Infineon has come up with a new chip that supports Bluetooth 2. The BlueMoon UniCellular PMB8753 features all of the enhancements of this norm :
- Tripled theoretical throughput
- Larger bandwidth
- Much lower power consumption
One can expect the cellphone manufacturers to use those chips in the immediate future, since in that market, battery autonomy is everything.
http://www.infineon.com
