For our french readers, there is a new site.
Mic-M4c (Guillaume) has now put online, MacBoost.free.fr that will offer more and more leading articles related to opening Apple machines.
It already put online two articles intended for the iMac G5 and G5 iSight in which you will find all information in order to open up these machines and to change their memory, their hard drive or their Superdrive.
More can be found at:
http://macboostfr.free.fr/
According to latest information that we have just received, the 2 TB Western Digital disks should be available to the sale in France at the earliest by mid March.This is the estimated date by the official distributors.
It will be probably possible to find it before in small quantities and at a higher price, but not for en masse sale before at least a month.
Apple has published a technical note about the immersion sensors that now abound in the new portables (since the Unibody models).
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3425?viewlocale=en_US
The rules are clear for them. If these sensors indicate that a liquid came into contact with the machine, the guarantee, legal or extended by Apple care, will be regarded as cancelled. The note leaves an open door however since only the problems involved with the immersion will not be covered. It will be necessary however to discuss with the "after sales service" to know if the breakdown is related to a liquid or another cause. Indeed, with the sensors being placed under the keyboard, there remains the possiblity that a little liquid has just "coloured' them without reaching the mother card, that could breakdown some time later on.
After having announced to last week the first chip of DDR3 of
512 MB and engraved in 50nm Samsung announced the following record.
They succeeded in producing the first chip of DDR2 engraved in 40nm. In addition to the reduced consumption, the chips engraved with this technology allow a 60% increase of productivity from each silicon wafer - since more chips can be fitted onto each wafer.
They will start to produce chips of DDR3 engraved in 40nm by the end of the year.
This series of advertisements are not innocent. They have two goals. The first is to reassure the investors in a market that is a total disaster at the moment. The second is more pernicious; these advertisements are intended to prove to the competition the advances in technology and thus to push them to spend on R&D when their finances are already stretched.
