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• V3HD FireWire capture box boasts inputs galore

  Published: August 3, 2007, 10:03 am

  Tags: Capture, Firewire, Hub, Mac, Pro, Production, Professional, Studio, V3hd

  their ends in the video production biz just might fall head over heels for the V3HD, you know, if you're down with an all-in-one solution for capturing SD / HD video as well as audio on the side. This semi-professional device can handle up to 32-channels of simultaneous audio input and output, touts HDMI output for watching your work on

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• Rumor mill: August 7 iMac announcements... likely NOT true

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Announcements, Cinema Display, Cinemadisplay, Imac, Isight, Mac Pro, Macpro, Penryn, Rumor

  iSight camera built in.The Mac Pro will get a speed bump as the Xeon/Woodcrest chips are swapped out for Penryn chips, running at a brisk 2.4, 3.0, and 3.33GHZ.Lastly, the long-expected end of life for the Mac Mini may finally come around as the machine is expected to be dropped from the product matrix. *sniffle*Again, this is all unconfirmed.

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• Apple offers PCI Express RAID Card in Mac Pro

  Published: August 7, 2007, 7:05 pm

  Tags: Apple, Mac Pro, Macpro, Pci Express, Pci E, Pcie, Pciexpress, Raid, Refresh, Update

  on today, it looks like the Mac Pro received a small update as well. 'Course, it seems pretty minute until you check out the pricetag ($999, for those wondering), but nevertheless, users looking to maximize their machine can now opt for a PCI Express RAID card to come built right in. The card promises "up to 304MBps of sequential read

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• Mac Pros gain RAID storage option

  Published: August 8, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Hard Drives, Harddrives, Mac Pro, Macpro, Raid, Storage

  under: Hardware, Mac ProOh Apple, you sly devil, what with all the secretly upgrading hardware and not even telling us. Thanks to eagle-eyed reader Eric Wortman, we now also found that the Mac Pro gained a RAID card option for those who need mounds of storage and a secure, redundant system with which to manage it. The card supports RAID 0,

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• Mac Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.1

  Published: August 8, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: Firmware, Mac Pro, Macpro

  Software Update, Apple, Mac ProI bet the Mac Pro felt a little left out of all the excitement yesterday, since the iMac got all the press. Worry not, Mac Pro, today Apple is updating something that impacts you! That's right, Mac Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.1 has hit the street. This firmware update, 'adjusts fan behavior in the Mac Pro.' As

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• Forget iPhones and iPods, the Mac is where it is at

  Published: August 23, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Apple, Imac, Mac, Mac Mini, Mac Pro, Macmini, Macpro, Macs

  the great bugaboo of the Mac Web: market-share.Schlender contends, and I agree, that while Apple's market-share is in single digits Apple is still sitting pretty. Every quarter more and more people are snapping up Macs (the iPhone/iPod halo effect perhaps?) which is very good for Apple's bottom line. Apple has fairly high margins on Macs, and

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• Colorful Macs: AlumaMax Adds Vibrant Color to Mac Pro, Cinema Displays and Keyboards

  Published: October 10, 2007, 10:20 am

  Tags: Alumamax, Aluminum, Apple, Cinema Display, Colorful Macs, Keyboard, Mac, Mac Pro

  a different color. Who says MacBooks, iPods and iPhones are the only ones worthy of custom colors? Check out the rainbow of six anodized hues with which you can perform this alchemy on your existing Mac Pro or PowerMac G5. If you're looking for a brand-new Mac, the company offers a complete line of Mac Pros all colored up to your specs, and

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• Apple's waiting on Intel's Penryn for revamped Mac Pros?

  Published: October 18, 2007, 2:56 pm

  Tags: 45nm, 8 Core, 8core, Apple, Harpertown, Intel, Mac Pro, Macpro, Penryn

  Of course, rumors had the Mac Pro in quite similar shape last year, with Apple holding up production for upcoming Clovertown chips. Those arrived right on time, but Apple held up the 8-core Mac for five months in anticipation of Creative Suite 3. The theories this time around are that now that demand is raging for pro machines thanks to

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• Apple ships RAID cards for Mac Pro and XServe

  Published: November 1, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Mac Pro, Macpro, Raid, Xserve

  Peripherals, XServe, Apple, Mac Pro, LeopardLet me ask you something: do you like fast storage? Redundant, fast storage? Lots and lots of gigabytes of fast, redundant storage? Sure you do, buddy -- but what's with the software RAID on your Mac Pro or your Intel-based XServe? That's so last week, now that Apple is shipping the RAID cards for Mac

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• Apple releases Hard Drive Update 1.0 for iMac and Mac Pro

  Published: November 7, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Hard Drive Update, Harddriveupdate, Imac, Mac Pro, Macpro

  under: iMac, Software Update, Mac ProGot a Mac Pro or a Core 2 Duo iMac? Feel like installing 1.4 MB worth of updates for your hard drive? Sure you do. Apple released Hard Drive Update 1.0 earlier today, providing important bug fixes and firmware revs for the drives in these machines. What exactly it's doing, we can't say -- but that's where

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• Dating Virgin!

  Published: November 24, 2007, 4:04 am

  Tags: Ireland, Proxy, Opteron, Servers, Mac Pro, Squid, Scott Hanselman, Poweredge, Babys, Robert Sweetnam, Dublin

  in the work force he has no problem meeting girls (and he is a lovely guy) so it won't be too long before he has female company. Now I am at home, my little baby boy is only 8 months, so...Dating Virgin!  Midget Wrangler - Wine, Chocolate and ChildrenReverse Proxy Servers, Part 3  Tiernans Comms ClosetSee 0 more posts on this topic:

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• Macbook ultraportable and Penryn Mac Pro due for Macworld, 3G iPhone in June?

  Published: December 6, 2007, 2:44 pm

  Tags: 3g Iphone, 3giphone, Apple, Jim Goldman, Jimgoldman, Mac Pro, Macbook, Macpro, Macworld, Penryn, Rumor, Rumors, Ultraportable

  refresher in the lead up to Macworld in January. Goldman predicts the new Pro laptop will be half the thickness of the MacBook Pro, the hard disk will be replaced with NAND storage, and Apple will be selling the thing for $1,500 -- the same price the black MacBook currently goes for. He's purportedly citing sources that claim to have seen the

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• Refurb Mac Pros back on the Apple Store

  Published: December 19, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Deals, Mac Pro, Macpro, Refurb

  under: Mac Pro, DealsDealmac reports this morning that the Mac Pro towers have returned to Apple's refurb clearance stock, with the Octocore model available for $3399, a full $600 below new retail. The rest of the line shows up as well (scroll down through the refurb page for all the choices); shipping is also free, which is a big help for

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• Penryn Mac Pro and Xserve hands-on

  Published: January 17, 2008, 9:04 pm

  Tags: Apple, Hands On, Mac Pro, Macpro, Penryn, Xserve

  high performance Penryn Xeon machines -- the Mac Pro and Xserve -- look just the same as they were two weeks ago. Except faster now -- according to their site, anyway. Sorry to disappoint, though, Apple didn't demo the quad PCI-Express slots running eight simultaneous 30-inch monitors. Maybe next time.Gallery: Penryn Mac Pro hands-onGallery:

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• GeForce 8800 GT upgrade causes headaches for some Mac Pro users

  Published: January 18, 2008, 11:59 am

  Tags: Apple, Geforce, Geforce 8800 Gt, Geforce8800gt, Mac Pro, Macpro

  Desktops It looks like Mac Pro users wanting to get in on some of the latest and greatest action without ditching their old system altogether are still out of luck, despite a recently released "upgrade kit" from Apple that got some of their hopes up, and caused some consternation for anyone that actually took the plunge on one. As a number

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