Category: Mac Hardware
The PC market's popular sound card comes to the Mac... and ends up a disappointment
Sound Blaster Live!
No (analog) audio input on new Macs - a step forward or back? As you may know, a number of MKaqcintosh models lack analog audio inputs. This list includes (but is not necessarily limited to) Apple's 533 MHz-and-faster "QuickSilver"...
Introduction
Engage the Neodymium Transducers! Apple's iPod is a portable MP3 player with a built-in hard drive (the original model started at 5GB, a second-generation model added 10 and 20GB options) and a speedy FireWire connection capable of transferring a whole CD's worth of songs to the device in seconds. Capable of storing 1,000 songs, 2,000...
Video to the Macs
Earlier iMac models (Rev. A-D) were not ideally suited work with digital video. But they're not hopeless either.
None of Apple's iMac models support analog video capture as a standard feature, and only the mid-range "DV" and high-end "DV Special Edition" models released since Oct. 1999 (including the enhanced...
Apple has revealed that IBM's PowerPC 970 chips power its next-generation G5 Macs. But will the new processor(s) provide the speed boost necessary to best Intel and AMD?
Introduction
Even before their June 23rd announcement by Apple (following a widely reported leak the previous week!), it was well known that the next generation of Power Macintosh...