This time it is true, Mac Office updates are available and it is not an accident (see our previous news about it:
here and
there). Those updates are respectively named 11.3.2 (13.7MB) and 10.1.9 (3.33MB) for
Mac Office 2004 and X, and
contains several improvements for PowerPoint and Entourage, no more details.
On our French
forums, Shok reported all problems he encountered with his iMac G5 RevA. Thankfully, such a misery remains an exception. However, when dealing with AppleCare and mentioning his Airport Express station (APX) that also went dead after 18months, he was told that Apple had a list of all Airport Express that should stop working relatively quickly, suffering of the short lifetime issue that we have been reporting about for months.
If it is really true, then it would be nice that Apple contacts unfortunate owners to get the product exchanged for free, as it would have happened if series of iPod had suffered of a similar problem.
Apple knows how to contact us, and our records display over 930 reports of dead-too-early Airport Express, affected by the short lifetime syndrome (due to a bad quality capacitor as
reported previously). To report about our dead APX, please submit references via our
dedicated webpage.
All European RefurbStores, and from other countries too, are filled up with offers, probably never seen such a large hardware offers for months.
You should find: 17”, 20” and 24” iMac Core Duo and Core 2 Duo, Mac mini Rev1 and 2, MacBook Core Duo, MacBook Pro Core Duo, and of course iPod nano Rev1 and the now famous 2GB model for 100€.
Shortest link to the RefurbStore near you:
Refurb Store
The Photoshop CS3 beta version is a success, and proves to Adobe how Mac users are used to work with this application. Of course many websites have published articles and news about it.
XLR8Yourmac has also published benchmark results, comparing CS2 via Rosetta and native CS3, the hardware used for the test is a MacPro 2.66GHz. The CS3 version is 80% than the CS2, if this is encouraging, for sure Adobe can do better, we are not really over the performance level reached by a PMG5 Quad with the CS2.
According to
Dailytech, Intel has already started to ship Quad Core Xeon CPUs, being 2 months in advance on its schedule. The Quad Core model already available, named E5335, clocked at 2GHz is priced 690$, it is cheaper than 2 Dual Core Xeon CPUS with the same frequency.
Apple could use such Quad Core Xeon to offer an entry-level model, cheaper than the current one, while being ready for an Octo Core high-end model that could be as cheap as the current one.
