Apple releases a Graphics Update for Snow Leopard
Apple has pushed out a new update for your graphics card. This update is for everyone but those who will see improvements are gamers.
The Snow Leopard Graphics Update contains stability and performance fixes for graphics applications and games, including fixes that:
address frame rate issues occurring in Portal and Team Fortress 2 on certain Macs
resolve an issue that could cause Aperture 3 or StarCraft II to unexpectedly quit or become unresponsive
For more information about this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4286
Apple Posts a Job Opening for a “Revolutionary” New Mac OS X Feature
This week has been usual to say the least. When the iPhone was released it changed on what was mostly reported on and shifted where most of the news came from. Unlike most weeks this week has been dominated by Mac news, which is a good thing because the mac side of Apple hasn’t seen much love. People were even suggesting Apple forgot about Macs. Well there is still light for all of us Mac users. Apple has posted a job opening today suggesting Apple is working on a awesome new feature of OSX.
Are you looking to help create something totally new? Something that has never been done before and will truly amaze everyone? Are you excited by the prospect that what you helped create would be used every day by millions of Apple customers? Then come and work on with the Mac OS X software engineering team to help build a new and revolutionary feature for Mac OS X.
It looks like Apple is getting ready to build something up on OSX or maybe even OS XI. Don’t expect anything soon, usually Apple posts these kind of listings and then we don’t see anything about it for a couple of years.
OWC says getting your own SSD into the new iMacs is hard
Other world computing (or OWC) has got their hands on a brand new iMac, and tore it down. Usually this is iFixits job but OWC was interested in seeing how hard it would be to install your own SSD as a second drive. Like you would expect, its hard.
The bad news is that, unless your Mid 2010 iMac originally came with an Apple SSD, there’s no graceful way to install an OWC one. The appropriate mounting bracket and connector cables are nowhere to be found on the non-SSD models.
This unfortunate development continues Apple’s proclivity toward making the iMac’s inner workings less “accessible” than they could (or some may say “should”) be.
iMacs have always been hard to work on, so there really isn’t any real surprise here. The real surprise though, is that Apple does not include any cables for the second drive to be put in.
