This new article describes how to install a new HD in a MB Pro, including photo and details. It also provides information and performance evaluation concerning the new Hitachi TravelStar 5K160 featuring 160GB storage capacity; while comparing it to the original 7200rpm HD available from the AppleStore as a BTO.
http://www.hardmac.com/articles/61/
Microsoft will release in Japan an external HD DVD reader for their XBox 360. This reader will cost about €150.
This announcement is more than welcome for the defenders of HD DVD, who'll see the amount of compatible readers explode accordingly.
At the same time, MS should modify the firmware of their console so it could play video in 1080p.
The reader should be available at the same time as the PS3, which will hold a Blu-ray. War has now reached the segment of game consoles.
According to
Gizmodo, Microsoft's music player, Zune, won't be compatible with our Mac upon its release.
To support the Mac, Microsoft should accept adapting their DRMs under OS X, which they always refused to do, and resume their Windows Media Player software development, that's now abandoned.
As Gizmodo points out, it's not such a loss, especially if Apple reacts to Zune release avec brio.
A video iPod launched at the same time could actually ruin most of Microsoft pretentions...
According to statements from Robert Iger, CEO of Disney, Apple's iTV should embark a hard drive. This way this device should be able to work in an autonomous way.
There's still a question, for the French market at least: by the time the iTv rolls out (mid-2007), most of the broadband equipped homes will already have TV boxes (from such ISPs as Free, Neuf...), including hard drives and with functionalities most similar to those of the iTV, and the HD format on top of that.
How will Apple convince those people to buy their device?
Maybe a good idea would be to work with those ISPs and propose them to gain access to music and videa through their equipments.
Being able to gain access to the iTune Store via a HD Freebox, for instance, is not ridiculous.
