Three years ago,
Luxpro unveiled a MP3 players aiming to compete with the freshly introduced Apple iPod Shuffle.
Apple was acting to prevent Luxpro to be able to sell its SuperShuffle player, and its success on the market was then limited as it could only be found in shops in 2007, and at that time the design was outdated.
Filed in Arkansas, Luxpro is aiming to sue Apple for monopolizing MP3 music player market. It might be the last action of a slowly dying company that did not understand that Apple was mostly acting against them to protect its design than to protect its NAND flash-based music player market, which was at that time marginal. If the SuperSuffle had a different design it would have most likely never been in trouble with Apple..
In its
FAQ about GeForce products installed in the MacBook Pro, NVidia provide details about its SLI Hybrid technology applied in the Mac. Apparently the technology is not fully available in the MacBook Pro, but it will be fully supported with Mac OS X 10.5.6:
Apple's hybrid graphics technology is supported under the Mac OS X operating system version 10.5.6 and higher only. Only the Hybrid Power function of the SLI Hybrid techbnology is currently available, the GeForce Boost ability allowing the simultaneous usage of both the video chipset and the discrete GPU will come later on with Mac OS X 10.5.6.
Apple might not like that a partner unveils some functions of the future version of its OS. However, it demonstrates also that NVidia is willing to update its drivers to bring its technologies to the Mac. One could now seriously think of a Mac Pro and NVidia SLI fully supported and managed by Snow Leopard.
In addition, NVidia mentions that when using BootCamp partition with the new MacBook Pro, one will not be able to choose which video chips to be used, it will be by default the discrete GeForce 9600M.
When applied in PC notebook SLI Hybrid technology does not provide the expected performance level so far, as both chipset and GPU spend a lot of time to exchange data and 2D/3D rendering are not really boosted. However, as a recent technology, it will improve over time and its GPGPU power might be important as well.
We have just recieved information on the configuration required to run the Adobe CS4 Suite.
It will not be possible to install the software if the hard drive is formatted as "Case-sensitive."
Even stranger, if not impossible to explain, Adobe states that the suite can not be installed on "storage devices based on flash," that is to say SSD disks.
Although this limitation will not pose a problem to most, it will frustrate those who hoped to use a SSD to have their applications as reactive as possible.
Interestingly, this limitation was not present in the beta. Adobe has most certainly been confronted by a problem with SSD configurations, perhaps linked to the use of the cache.
