No limit on the road to excesses!
Gigabyte, a PC motherboard's manufacturer, revealed a card with 4 PCI Express connectors able to work on SLI with 4 GeForce.
While there is no boost in performance, using 4 cards at the same time in addition to a PCI card allowed
Tom's hardware, who tested this board, to connect 10 monitors on only one computer.
This year, 56545 visitors went to Paris AppleExpo 2005. If this number is significantly lower than for 2004 (around 70000 visitors), it remains a good year for AppleExpo taking into account that Apple cancelled the Keynote at the last minute and that Apple did not introduce any new product during this event.
Visitors were in 49% of the case, professionals, and the remaining ones were mac users, customers, or future customers.
[Important Update] There seems to be different figures of the Apple Expo frequentation. We gave you the number of unique visitors for 2005. It is therefore to be compared with the same number for last year which was precisely 55512.
So the number of unique visitors didn't vary much between the two years.
In order to help software transition to MacIntel, Apple has opened a resource center webpage that should contain all useful tips, examples and tools available to help developers porting their software to MacIntel
http://developer.apple.com/transition/
Some files and tools are not in their final version yet, but everything seems to be on-time or even ahead of schedule, even the difficult transition of Altivec to SSE2.
ATI has updated ATI Displays to version 4.5.6. It corrects a bug linked to the language option:
The ATI Displays Control Panel will now launch regardless of the language selected in the OS
ATI Displays Control Panel version 4.5.6
In your Software Update Panel :
The Logic Pro 7.1.1 Update addresses isolated reliability issues. It also improves compatibility with Mac OS X version 10.4 (Tiger).
The most significant areas addressed are:
- MP3 and AAC import in Mac OS X Tiger
- Use of Scandinavian keyboard layout in Mac OS X Tiger
- Delay compensation of QuickTime movies
- OMF, AAF and XML compatibility
- DAE/TDM: Bounces with the Wave recording file type
- AudioSuite plug-in compatibility
- Automation of Ultrabeat parameters, Sculpture parameters and two state buttons
For more information on this update, visit http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302236
and for the Express version:
The Logic Express 7.1.1 Update addresses isolated reliability issues. It also improves compatibility with Mac OS X version 10.4 (Tiger).
The most significant areas addressed are:
MP3 and AAC import in Mac OS X Tiger
Use of Scandinavian keyboard layout in Mac OS X Tiger
Automation tool: Support of S curve modes
"Enhance Pitch" plug-in
Realtime sample rate conversion
For more information on this update, visit http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302241.
