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Apple today updated its popular MacBook with a new, durable polycarbonate unibody design featuring a brilliant LED-backlit display, a glass Multi-Touch trackpad and Apple’s innovative built-in battery for up to seven hours of battery life. Inheriting technology and design features from the MacBook Pro line, the new MacBook is an ideal consumer notebook for students [...]

Earlier today Apple released Performance Update 1.0 for both Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard.
This update addresses intermittent hard drive-related stalls reported by a small number of customers and covers the following products:

MacBook Air (Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53GHz, Mid [...]

Promise recently posted Firmware Service Release 2.5 for Mac VTrak E-Class customers. The Free update delivers several key enhancements to their Mac RAID solution including:

A graphical performance monitoring tool (Logical drive, physical drive and Fibre Channel port monitoring with no performance impact while monitoring)
UPS Support (Serial port & Ethernet support)
Configuration export
Enhanced video playback performance
An average [...]

Over the past week there have been several significant announcements from Blackmagic Design:
Blackmagic Design have released a new software installer for its Multibridge, DeckLink and Intensity products that adds full support for the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. This new software release also includes support for the highly popular editing solution, Final Cut [...]

Snow Leopard
Just two weeks after the launch of Snow Leopard Apple have release Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1 update and Mac OS X Server v10.6.1 Update. Apple recommend the 10.6.1 update for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of [...]