News for Thursday, 15 February 2007

Based on Taiwanese sources, Digitimes claims that Apple will introduce a MacBook 15.4" in Q2 2007.
This model could fill the gap in Apple's notebook models offer between the 13.3" MB and the 15.4" MBPro. According to Digitimes, Quantas will also produce the MB 15.4" in addition to the MB Pro from which they are already in charge of.
The important price cuts for 15.4" LCD panels could explain Apple's decision introduce a MB 15.4".

If some users were still expecting that the Apple TV will support DivX, we have received information proving the opposite.
One of our forum members, ZaraA, discussed with Jérome Rota, founder of DivX, who could confirm that Apple did not contact him regarding a possible integration of DivX into the Apple TV.
So, the Apple TV will not support DivX video, and one will probably have to find some tricks to allow DivX to be played and/or streamed via this video box. We think that Apple makes a mistake by preventing the Apple TV to be compatible with a popular video format. Cupertino should not forget that the iPod success was mostly built thanks to its compatibility with the MP3 audio format and not due to AAC which was almost unknown when the first iPod model was released. Instead of limiting features of its potential blockbuster products, Apple should also explain and fix the current issues with Airport Express short lifetime and Airport-deficient iMac Core 2 Duo, without forgetting the memory slot curse affecting PowerBooks.

According to The Inquirer (and its famous unreliability), the photo of the large Radeon that we have shown in a previous news, is a Mac-dedicated model.

As we reported, the Mac Pro already featured the doubled PCI Express power connectors required by this large and massive graphic card. If this information turns to be true, the price of this graphic card will be probably high, and with its large copper-based heatsink we hope that it will be silent.

Following Corsair, TwinMos now offers RAM modules specifically for the mac. The manufacturer goes even further by using a specific packaging.

Of course, the manufacturer garantees his SO-Dimm DDR2 modules as fully mac-compatible.
Those memory manufacturers are not taking big risks since Apple moved to Intel's specs. Unless using really poor quality memory, or running it at the wrong frequency, all RAM modules are compatible nowadays.
In the past, incompatibility were linked to the exotic memory controller used by Apple (as fully described in this article)Only users purchasing low quality RAM modules might have a problem with compatibility.
We have contacted Corsair for testing Mac and non-Mac specific RAM modules, we are still waiting for the samples. Maybe TwinMos will react faster to our requests.