Briefly: 30-inch Cinema updated, India,10.4.6, Apple and BAPCo
30-inch Cinema receives a boost
The display's brightness, which was previously 270 cd/m2, is now listed at 400 cd/2. Meanwhile, its contrast ratio also appears to have been bumped from 400:1 to 700:1.
Pricing remains unchanged at $2500.
Apple expanding presence in Asia
Apple today launched eight products in the Indian market, expanding its offerings overseas.
During a press briefing, Yeo Eng Yiong, the company's product marketing manager for Asia Pacific, announced the roll out would include the 1GB iPod nano, iPod AV connection kit, iPod Hi-Fi, iLife '06, the Intel Core Duo iMac, Mac mini, iWork '06, and MacBook Pro.
The products — which were unavailable to Indian customers until today — are being offered through Apple's existing network of distributors and dealers in the region.
New Mac OS X 10.4.6 seeds
Apple continues this week to seed external pre-release builds of its upcoming Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" update at a relatively swift pace — usually an indicator that a release is in the near term.
Just days after it gave developers Mac OS X 10.4.6 build 8I1116 (Intel) and Mac OS X 10.4.6 build 8I124 (PowerPC), the company has seeded Mac OS X 10.4.6 build 8I1119 (Intel) & Mac OS X build 8I127 (PowerPC), tipsters and bloggers are reporting.
In these latest seeds, developers are reportedly asked to test Quartz- and ImageIO-based applications. No known issues are were reported to developers.
Apple joins BAPCo
Apple has reportedly joined BAPCo, the industry-standard Windows benchmarking consortium.
BAPCo is responsible for the SYSmark 2004SE and MobileMark benchmark suites used by media outlets, corporations, and government agencies worldwide.
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The consortium's existing members include the likes of AMD, Intel, Transmeta, ATI, nVidia, Microsoft, Ziff Davis Media, CNET, Dell, HP, Toshiba, Seagate, VNU, Atheros, and ARCintuition.
The move is reportedly significant in that it indicates Apple is interested in Windows-based performance testing... Readers are free to speculate about the significance of this tidbit in the AppleInsider Forums.
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I can't imagine Apple looking to do official tests on a hacked XP running on mac.
Could it be to test a windows emulator?
I can't imagine Apple looking to do official tests on a hacked XP running on mac.
Could it be to test a windows emulator?
I wonder if Apple will sell a Virtual OS X for windows!!!!schwing!
Probably more likely they are developing a "virtual windows" for mac and want to test its performance (hopefully near real time!)
Probably to keep the benchmarks honest and to get insight into what they look for. With people running Photoshop in Windows XP on a MacBook Pro and noting it is faster than other Core Duo machines running XP, the inevitable comparison is between Photoshop running under XP and under OS X on the same Intel Mac to find out if Windows or OS X is the faster OS.
There are rumors the new OSX due in Jan 07 will include native windows emulation. Perhaps apple will never support running a hacked copy of Vista on the mac, but realizes the demand for it and is actually making tools to run vista/xp easier than the way people are doing it now!