More iMac Benchmarks

found it here.

Macworld video: Safari 4 beta tab tweaks

Troubleshooting OS X start-ups

The latest Macworld has a very nice article about "Troubleshooting OS X start-ups".
Read it if you have problems.

Wolfram Mathematica 7

From Wolfram Research.

Read the macworld review.

iMac advertisement (from Macworld magazine)

Rumors about the next version of Mac OS X

Ars Technica as well as macrumors.com have some unofficial information about the next version of Mac OS X.

Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) may be an Intel-only release that will be presented (beta version) at WWDC 2008 and released at MacWorld 2009...

By the way, Ars Technica is a great site!

Macworld 2008 wish list and predictions

• New displays: I hope that Apple will introduce new displays with build-in iSight cameras. I think that the new display sizes will be 20'', 24'' (as they are already used in iMacs, there is no point of having two different sizes) and 30''. A price drop would be nice.

• Apple Aperture 2.0: I wish Apple introduces a new version of Aperture. Aperture 1.5.6 is sloooow, even when running on decent hardware, although it is a very useful piece of software.

• I would like to see updated Mac minis that have dedicated graphics cards.

• I really like to see Apple introducing a more advanced Mac mini computer -- this could be called Mac Mini Pro or Mac Pro Mini :-). I would like it to support at least 4Gb of RAM, have its own graphics card (the one that comes with the latest 17'' MacBook Pros), and has space for two SATA hard disks and one DVD-RW.
  

Also, it is almost certain that Mac OS X 10.5.2 will be out before MacWorld 2008.

Mac-related magazines that I read

• MacTech
• MacWorld
• Macuser.co.uk

SpeedMark 5 results

Macworld magazine updated its SpeedMark results for SpeedMark 5 (the latest version of SpeedMark).

I am publishing a small part of the results for reference:

• Power Macintosh G5/Dual 2.0GHz: 166
  
• 15-inch PowerBook G4/ 1.67Ghz: 92
  
• Mac Pro Xeon/3 GHZ Quad Core: 274
  
• 15-inch MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo/2.2GHz: 185
  
• 24-inch iMac Core 2 Duo/2.8 GHz: 262
  
• Mac mini Core 2 Duo/2 GHz: 172
  

Of course, the results do not show that my PowerMac can have up to 8Gb of RAM whereas a Mac Mini can have up to 2Gb of RAM.

The important thing to notice is that a MacBook Pro is as powerful as my PowerMac G5 DP @ 2GHz!

Google will offer its Gadgets to Dashboard!

According to MacWorld, Google will offer (on Thursday 29.Nov.2007) its Gadgets to Dashboard!

Google Gadgets are similar to Dashboard Widgets.

Google will publish its API that will allow the programming of its cross-platform Gadgets.