Archive for October 19th, 2005

Apple has upgraded it’s PowerBooks to come standard with a SuperDrive (DVD/CD Burner) and extended the battery life. They have also upgraded the displays. The 12inch now has a XGA display and the 15 and 17 inch have higher resolutions.

The PowerMacs have also been upgraded to Dual Core Processors with 1Mb of L2 Cache per Core. That means the Dual processor models are now Quad Processors (2 Chips * 2 cores each) and the single processor models are now Dual Processors (1 Chip * 2 cores each).

Aperture was anounced today from Apple. Aperture is a photo editing software geared for professional photographers. Aperture was designed to edit RAW format images but can also edit other popular formats such as JPEG and TIFF. You can PreOrder Aperture for $499 in the Apple Store.