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  • Apple confirms support for 5K displays on 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro

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    Hook the new 15-inch MacBook Pro up to an impressive 4K TV and it will rock.

    Apple officially confirmed that the new 15-inch MacBook Pro can support a 4K display at a full resolution of 4096×2160 at 60Hz and is also the first to support 5K displays.

    The support for higher resolutions appears to be related to the switch to AMD graphics in the new machine. Apple’s new 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro (mid-2015) comes with an AMD Radeon R9 M370X that is reportedly up to 80 percent faster than previous generations. Apple’s 13-inch Retina MacBook Pros released earlier in the year come with Intel Iris Graphics 6100.

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  • Apple releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 Supplemental Update

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    It’s not a huge update, but it might help.

    Late Thursday, Apple released its OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 Supplemental Update. The update, which can be located, downloaded and installed via OS X’s App Store feature, fixes a video driver issue that might prevent your Mac from booting when running certain apps that capture video.

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  • Apple introduces NVMe support in OS X 10.10.3 update

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    It’s a subtle change, but it could be pretty neat in the long run.

    Last week, Apple’s introduction of its OS X 10.10.3 update also quietly introduced support for the next generation NVM Express (NVMe) interface to SSD Flash drives. These drives can be found on the new Retina display MacBook as well as other units.

    The cool cats at AnandTech offered a good description of the AHCI technology, which has resulted in the NVMe technology:

    AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) dates back to 2004 and was designed with hard drives in mind. While that doesn’t rule out SSDs, AHCI is more optimized for high latency rotating media than low latency non-volatile storage. As a result AHCI can’t take full advantage of SSDs and since the future is in non-volatile storage (like NAND and MRAM), the industry had to develop a software interface that abolishes the limits of AHCI.

    The result is NVMe, short for Non-Volatile Memory Express.

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  • Apple releases OS X 10.10.3 Update

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    This may be the update you’ve been hankering for.

    On Wednesday, Apple released its OS X 10.10.3 update. The update, which can be downloaded via the App Store, introduces Photos for OS X and adds the following fixes and changes:

    – Adds over 300 new Emoji characters.

    – Adds Spotlight suggestions to Look Up.

    – Prevents Safari from saving website favicon URLs used in Private Browsing.

    – Improves stability and security in Safari.

    – Improves Wi-Fi performance and connectivity in various usage scenarios.

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  • Apple releases iPhoto 9.6.1 update, works to pave transition to iPhotos for OS X app

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    It’s not a huge update, but it preps the way for the upcoming transition to the long-awaited OS X Photos app.

    On Thursday, Apple released iPhoto 9.6.1. The update, a 1.14 gigabyte download available via OS X’s Software Update/App Store feature, offers the following fixes and changes:

    -Improves compatibility when migrating iPhoto libraries to the new Photos app in the OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 (available this spring).

    -Fixes an issue that caused iPhoto to display only the first 25 images in a Facebook album.

    -Fixes an issue that could cause iPhoto to become unresponsive when printing an image.

    As we have known for months, the upcoming Photos for OS X app for the Mac is designed to be a replacement for iPhoto and Aperture, both of which Apple ceased developing last year.

    Photos for OS X is an all new photo management app that’s been designed to integrate deeply with Photos for iOS. It introduces a Yosemite-style design that emphasizes flatness and translucency, and it works alongside iCloud Photo Library, streamlining photo availability across all of a user’s devices.

    Reviews of the Photos for OS X app have suggested that it’s a vast improvement over iPhoto, with better photo editing tools and faster speeds, but it has been criticized for lacking many of the professional editing tools that were found within Aperture.

    It is not clear when OS X 10.10.3 with the Photos app might see a public release, but thus far, the software is available to both developers and public beta testers. Developers have received four OS X 10.10.3 betas, and public beta testers have had access to two updates.

    iPhoto 9.6.1 requires OS X 10.10 or later to install and run.