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Unreleased Intel Ivy Bridge benchmarked on modified version of Mac OS X 10.7.3, promising results reported

The Ivy Bridge architecture is on its way, which will probably be a cool thing. Per the tonymac86 Blog, a modified version of OS X 10.7.3 has been tested with an unreleased Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge chip, giving a first indication of how Apple’s next-generation Macs will perform. An anonymous tipster provided screenshots of […]

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News Software

Parallels Desktop updated to 7.0.15054.722853

On Thursday, Parallels released version 7.0.15054.722853 of its Parallels Desktop virtualization software. The new update, a 304 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Linux 3.2 kernel (used in Ubuntu 12 and others). – Fedora 15 kernel. Parallels Desktop 7 retails for US$79.99 and requires a 64-bit Intel-based processor, Mac OS X 10.5.8 […]

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News Retail Store

Microsoft to open 75 retail locations over next 2-3 years

If you can’t beat ’em, follow their lead and eventually try to take them down. Per Neowin, Microsoft plans to massively expand its retail presence to take in the U.S. in the next 2 to 3 years, with an aggressive goal of 75 new stores to take on Apple’s own retail operations. The plans are […]

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MacBook Pro News Software

2011 MacBook Pro-Specific Boot Camp 3.2 update appears to lead to brightness issues

Here’s the thing with updates: they’re great and generally resolve problems and turn a disaster around. Then there’s the other 10% for whom they make the sky fill with brimstone, the seas boil over and cause your cat to start waltzing across the living room floor with your terrier. Per AppleInsider, Apple’s small Boot Camp […]

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MacBook Pro News Software

Apple releases Boot Camp update for 2011 MacBook, MacBook Pro users

Per the cool cats at MacFixIt, Apple has released an update to the Boot Camp drivers for the latest MacBook Pro systems. This update addresses a couple of problems with Japanese and Korean keyboards in the system, and also fixes shutdown problems, according to the update’s download page. The update is specific for Windows 7, […]