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Mac mini News

2010 Mac mini teardown report posted, interesting discoveries found

Apple’s slim new 2010 Mac mini received the royal treatment/acceptance into the tech world recently via a complete teardown by tech firm iFixit shows. A teardown report by iFixit shows how Apple fit the slim system’s power supply inside the unibody aluminum case and reveals a variety of new innovations. Rather than needing an external […]

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Software

Elgato releases EyeTV 3.4 update

Late Monday, Elgato Systems released version 3.4 of its EyeTV software application, which finds and tracks all television programming you want to see and allows users to pause live television and save content to file. The new version, a 104.9 megabyte update which can be found here via VersionTracker (and can also be found through […]

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USB 3.0 underperforms in notebook tests, bottlenecks cited

USB 3.0 may be the future, but it may still have room for improvement. Per Techworld, the upcoming port technology may be hard pressed to surpass current technologies like eSATA. The test comprised plugging Freecom’s USB 3.0 external drive, the XS Hard Drive 3.0, into a mainstream dual-core notebook using the company’s new USB 3.0 […]

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News Processors

Rumor: “Gulftown” Processor Could Hit Mac Pro Line as Early as Tuesday

Intel this week previewed its 32 nanometer Core i7-980X processor, a six-core CPU known as “Gulftown” and fueled rumors that the CPU could make its way to Apple’s Mac Pro line as early as March 15th. Per ZDnet, tips have been received from sources close to the store stating that the hexacore processor could be […]

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Some MacBook, MacBook Pro Users Report Overheating Under Snow Leopard

A number of MacBook and MacBook Pro users are reporting that their systems running inordinately hot after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, causing their fans to work exceptionally loud. According to CNET, users in this thread on the Apple Support Discussions forums focus the issue primarily on MacBook Pros, though some scattered […]