Those speedy (and awesome) Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt drives we saw back at CES in early January are finally here! Today the company took the official wraps off their speedy drives, ensuring many people will wreak havoc on bank accounts over the coming months. At $599 and $699 for the 4 TB and 6 TB drives (RAID 0 setup), it’s clear they are, at least at first, marketing these towards the professional market. ~$700 clams is a lot to spend on a simple external...
The rumor mill for Apple products never stops. Even on the day of a new release, people upset with “missing” features on a new product begin speculating on what’s coming in the next iteration. For Apple fans, the rumor mill is extra persistent/determined thanks to the company’s super secretive policies. Besides the “HD” iPad and “LTE” iPhone rumors, one of the more popular Apple rumors as of late has been that of a 15″...
One of the best ways to get OS X on the cheap is to piece together your own Hackintosh. While the legality of such things is questionable, the use (and experience) you get out of it are huge pluses. Unfortunately, actually getting a fully running and powerful Hackintosh up and running isn’t exactly a simple affair and normally requires various discs, flash drives, patches, and modified drivers. But alas. Mountain Lion may be changing things for the better, at least for...
Download and install the new Mountain Lion developer preview to try out the new features? Join the club. That’s how we (all) roll. That said, even in its beta-ish status, there’s still some things we’d liked fixed sooner rather than later. Case in point: Growl notifications. Growl has, for many years, been the go-to standard for notifications within Mac OS X. But now that iOS’ Notification Center is crossing over, many see Growl as on its last leg....
According to loosely translated (Google) report from Japanese tech site macotakara.jp, Apple will announce/release new Mac hardware this year that is “absolutely different from current products”. No specifics are given, meaning the new hardware in question could be anything from radically redesigned Mac Pro desktop computers to larger 15″ and 17″ MacBook Air-like laptops to even an all new device. According to 9to5 Mac, macotakara is only marginally...
