I’m going to email Carlos some test footage for him to review.

I’m installing iLife ’09 as I’m typing this.

The Mac Box Set comes with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6, just as I expected.

We are getting close for the first Intel iMac and MacBook Pro AppleCare to expire. That would be sometimes in January/February 2009. Since its introductions, the Intel iMac has gone through one significant design. Gone are the plastic fronts, replaced with Aluminum and Glass. Meanwhile, the Macbook Pro design still borrows a lot from the Aluminum Powerbook G4. The 15-inch MacBook Pro resembles the 17″ PowerBook G4 than its 15″ counterpart.

Apple has been looking into the redesign for its Macbook and MacBook Pro line. Rumors have been circulating and loudly whispering that the next MacBook will clad Aluminum enclosures instead of Polycarbonate. If so, what would the MacBook Pro new design be?

Based on the incoherent chatters, Apple’s patent applications and many others, The new MacBook Pro would have an easily accessible hard drive bay, tapered bezel, and Intel’s new Quad-Core mobile CPU. This is the necessary upgrade that Mac users have been waiting for. A few months back, we received some unconfirmed information regarding the struggles that Apple engineers were facing with thermal issues. There is no denying that the MacBook Pros can get really hot. Thanks to the CPU, GPU, power supply and its heat-conducting Aluminum body. We will see what kind of design Apple engineers would use for the new MacBook Pro line.

Meanwhile, on the iMac front there wouldn’t be any major changes with the body design, but it will sport Intel’s Quad-Core CPU.

Mac mini might see a major redesign, since the current model is a little bit underpowered by comparisons. Apple should reconsider the “lower-end” market, and price the Mac mini more competitively. Even better if Apple would release an intermediate Mac desktop, larger than Mac mini and definitely smaller than the Mac Pro. A “consumer” Mac with upgradeable hard-drive, optical drive, etc. It will still have the same Mac core, but priced competitively with the rest of PC-market. A sub $1,000 Mac desktop that is still powerful. Apple could see a huge boost in Mac adoptions if they’d release such model.

Mac Pro models should see more powerful CPU, GPU, faster hard drive and higher capacity optical storage option. It might not see a new design anytime soon unless Apple has the need to do so.

All in all Apple must refresh their product line with some new innovations. In the time when most if not all technology pundits think that computers have reach its maturity, companies must innovate and improve their products.

I never thought that I’d linger around both sites, but this time it is for communication sake. There are a few people I know (Mr. Alazraqui, you’re one of them) who use MySpace as their primary communications.

Thanks to the MySpace and Facebook apps on the iPhone, I am back on these sites.

A short trip to Apple Support page refreshed my memory. Here it is:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1110

Final Cut Studio 2: Option to install Final Cut Pro is dimmed

Symptoms
If you install Final Cut Studio 2 after having installed Logic Studio, the option to install Final Cut Pro may be dimmed so that it is not possible to install Final Cut Pro. Other applications can be installed.

This particular issue specifically occurs on systems on which Logic Studio has already been installed.

Products Affected
Final Cut Studio 2, Logic Studio

Resolution
Take the following steps to resolve this issue:

1. If it is still running, quit the Final Cut Studio Installer.
2. In Finder, navigate to /Library/Receipts/.
3. Locate the file named ProMediaIO.pkg and drag it to the Trash.
4. Run the Final Cut Studio Installer again.

All in all, the installation went smoothly.

I bought the 500GB version because:

• I didn’t see the 1 TeraByte version in the particular Apple Store.
• I don’t want to spend $500 + sales tax for it.

Time Capsule comes with AirPort Utility 5.3 for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista. Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard AirPort utility has version 5.2.2 included.

The Time Capsule I have is using Seagate Barracuda® ES SATA 3.0Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive, model number ST3500630NS.

From Seagate:

The Seagate® Barracuda® ES enterprise hard drive is the industry’s most reliable, highest capacity 7200-RPM hard drive for 24 x 7, multidrive, business-critical applications. The Barracuda ES hard drive is built with perpendicular recording technology for maximum capacity, reliability and cost-effectiveness.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog reported that one user’s 1 TeraByte Time Capsule is equipped with HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 (full tech specs here in pdf format).

From Hitachi:

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000

Applications

• Internal and external storage for consumer
• computers
• Networked storage servers
• Extreme gaming machines
• Video editing arrays

Is it possible that the 500GB model has a better hard drive, or there are a lot more variations on the installed hard drive models?

UPDATE:
The highest capacity for Seagate Barracuda ES is 750GB. Meanwhile, Seagate Barracuda ES.2 is available in capacity up to 1 TeraByte.

Minimum System Requirements

One of the following Mac computers:

• Mac Pro
• MacBook Pro
• MacBook Air
• MacBook
• Mac mini with an Intel Core Solo or Duo processor
• iMac with a 1.8GHz or faster PowerPC G5 or Intel Core Duo processor
• Power Mac G5 with a 1.6GHz or faster PowerPC G5 processor
• 15- or 17-inch PowerBook G4 with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor

Memory requirements

• 1GB of RAM
• 2GB of RAM for Mac Pro

One of the following graphics cards:

• ATI Radeon X600 Pro, X600 XT, X800 XT Mac Edition, X850 XT, X1600, X1900 XT, 9800 XT, 9800 Pro, 9700 Pro, 9600, 9600 XT, 9600 Pro, 9650, HD 2400 XT, HD 2600 PRO, or HD 2600 XT
• ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 or 9600
• ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, 6600, 6600 LE, 6800 Ultra DDL, 6800 GT DDL, 7300 GT, 7800 GT, 8600M GT, or 8800 GT
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 or FX 5600
• Intel GMA 950 or GMA X3100

Minimum operating system requirements

• Mac OS X v10.4.11 Tiger
• Mac OS X v10.5.2 Leopard

DVD drive for installation

5GB of hard drive space for the application and sample projects

VMware 1.1.1 | 01/24/08 | 72241 | 171 MB

VMware-Fusion-1.1.1-72241.dmg

http://www.vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=FUS-111

VMware user account is required.

Time Capsule

iPhone Software 1.1.3 – read more here

iPod touch upgrade – ($19.99 upgrade cost) – editorials/rants coming soon

iTunes Movie Rentals

AppleTV (New Software – Free Upgrade)

MacBook Air

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Here we go again.

Steve Jobs is taking the center stage at MacWorld San Francisco 2008, delivering his keynote. Many has speculated what he will say, and the rumors are running wild. What’s with the “air”? What’s in the air?

Take all the rumors with a boulder of salt. In short time we all will find out.

Live coverage of MacWorld San Francisco 2008 Keynote starting at 09:00AM Pacific Standard Time:

Mac Rumors Live
Engadget
Ars Technica
MacScoop
LoopRumors
The Mac Observer
MacDailyNews
MacWorld
The Unofficial Apple Weblog
CNET – Live
Mac360