Not surprisingly, Apple quietly released a slimmer unibody aluminum design this week with a 2.4GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 gig of ram (expandable to 8 gig with two SO-DIMMs), Firewire 800, GigaEthernet, 802.11n Wireless, Bluetooth, 320 or 500 GB hard drive,  NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics with …

Today at the WWDC 2010, Apple announced the 4th generation ‘iPhone 4′. (you know, the leaked/stolen one that made the blog rounds some weeks ago)
They changed the case design, giving it a glass front and back (supposedly developed to be 30 times harder than plastic), with a slim silvery edge …

After years of rumours, Apple announced today the Ipad tablet for release in 30+ days.
It is a half inch thick and a mere 1.5 pounds.  The screen is 9.7 inches (1024×768) and is a capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display.
Running on a 1ghz Apple A4 chip (remember the purchase of P.A. …

Apple released a few interesting things today:
- Security Update 2010-001 (found on System Update)
- Bootcamp 3.1 update – finally.  Native Win7 support!  My tests thus far show the trackpad to be less jerky, it seems to handle the system fans better.  I will push it with a DAW to really see …

Logic Pro 9.1 Update
This update delivers improved compatibility and numerous fixes.
Issues addressed include:
Support for 64-bit native mode
Compatibility with 64-bit Audio Unit plug-ins
File names with over 32 characters are now supported
Samples are now mapped correctly when using the “Contiguous Zones” option in the EXS editor
Updated System Requirements
32-bit mode requires Mac OS …

I’ve started to delve into Apple’s Logic Studio 9 and thus far, I like what I see.  It’s got a clean interface and likely more tools than I’ll ever need, but I’m a fan of the time line style of DAWs and so I’m working through the manuals as well …

Now that Apple no longer plans to do the January show, they release when they choose to, and we have a lot of newly updated items:
- iMac: two models, a 21.5″ and a 27″ model with up to a quad core cpu, 16GB ram, optional ATI Radeon HD 4670 videocard …

Apple held a gathering today headed by Steve Jobs who has recovered from a kidney transplant.
There, they announced the release of various software and hardware refreshes:
- iPhone OS 3.1 / ipod touch OS 3.1.1
- itunes 9
- ipod touch 3rd generation
- ipod nano 5th generation
- ipod classic hard drive upgrade
- ipod …

So lets see what i’ve missed thats newsworthy in Apple land…
- Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) was released early.  This was both good and bad as some 3rd party developers had planned for the later date.  This means some 3rd party software is not working at all and so people are …

Apple finally releases a major update to the video editing suite called Final Cut Studio.
Included are:

Final Cut Pro 7 for video and film editing
Motion 4 for motion graphics and animation
Soundtrack Pro 3 for audio post-production
Color 1.5 for color grading and finishing
Compressor 3.5 and DVD Studio Pro 4

Most tasty are the …