Mac Pro for Xmas 2008

Today I discovered my sister is probably going to America with her school at xmas, it is going to cost about the same price as a Mac Pro, so my parents are letting me get one for xmas. I’m probably going to get the Basic one, but still its one fast system.

 

WWDC coming June 9th

In 20 days time it will be the annual WWDC (World Wide Developers conference) at Moscone West in San Francisco. There are many things what could be in-store for WWDC, here are a few rumors, New MacBook design, 3G iPhone, Mac OS X 10.6 demoed, more SDK builds & hopefully Mac os x 10.5.3 system update as well.

Final Cut Studio 2 Review

A few weeks back I got Final Cut studio 2 for my editing work and am truly amazed at it. Final Cut Pro is my main tool for editing and cutting out large chunks of video what isn’t needed. DVD Studio Pro I use sometimes to burn projects to a DVD as it looks more professional that iDVD. Motion I never really use but it looks like it has impressive transitions. Soundtrack Pro is pretty good to edit and enhance sounds. Shake 4 am in the process of learning it, its for visual affects. Here is a Final cut studio 2 NAB Reel from 2007  

MacBook advert MacBook Air style

Mac OS X Panther and iLife 04 overview

Many of you may say this is a bit late to review an operating system what is 5 years old, but recently I installed Mac OS X Panther on my Graphite 400Mhz PowerMac g4 which has 512MB of RAM and it runs amazingly well. Panther in its day was an evolution of the species, its amazing. Along with Panther I bought Apple’s iLife 04 suite which came fully boxed and includes the first ever version of Garageband. iLife 04 seems to run amazingly well on an 8 year old mac, even iDVD what says it needs a 733Mhz G4 runs fine on a 400Mhz G4. Over all I’m very impressed .              

My Aperture 2.0 Review

On 13th of February 2008 Apple released its 3rd version of the Aperture photo editing software application. Aperture was introduced at Macworld 2005, in front of an amazed audience. Aperture has been fully universal since version 1.5 and in my opinion is much better than Adobe lightroom. Aperture loads in commands faster than lightroom and the GUI looks more appealing. In all 100+ features have been added to Aperture 2.0 full features can be found here www.apple.com/aperture

Mac OS X 10.5.3 supposedly around the corner

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 could be arriving within a few months to add even more bug fixes. In one post on a 3rd party website someone called Apple up about a Macbook Pro problem he had an Apple rep then told him a update for the system will be coming out very soon. There is no way of knowing if the Apple rep meant, days, weeks or months, but in my opinion will be a while before we see the update as there isn’t any reports of a developer seed.

iPod nano 3rd Generation, arriving today!

Today I finally get to upgrade from my old green 4GB 2nd generation nano, to my brand new Silver 8GB iPod nano 3rd generation, what does video & has cover flow. A video on youtube should be coming up very soon all about it, Can’t wait!