As several manufacturers before, Super Talent announced the its first SSD in PCI Express format.
This drive allows you to reach 1.3 GB/s and 1.2 GB/s respectively in reading and writing modes on a PCI Express 2.0 8x. It can offer up to 2 TB of storage space (based on MLC or SLC chips) and sports several SSD units, unlike competitors, making it possible not only to offer a RAID 0 volume, but a RAID 5 setup, most probably the first one in a single unit for SSD.
As we reported it yesterday by installing 2 SSDs in a RAID 0 volume in a Mac Pro, we will have to get used to a totally new performance level of storage units, it will not be the bottleneck it used to be in the past decade.
MarketShare Unveils Figures for March
As every months, figures related to the market share of computer OS used to browse the US web have been collected and analyzed by MarketShare. In March, Apple marketshare moves up from 9.61% to 9.77%. Windows keeps dropping slowly, from 88.41% to 88.14%. The iPhone OS remains stable will 0.49% a quite big achievement for a non-computer OS. Regarding web browser, Safari market shares increases from 8.02% to 8.23%.
If Apple keeps grabbing market shares, it is not as fast as it used to be over the past 6 months. However, it also confirms than the financial crisis will not affect more specifically the Mac than any other PC models. NExt month we will see if the new anti-Apple Microsoft ads had any effect of those figures...
TUAW Retro Giveaway Part 2: Manuals, BASIC books and a printer
Filed under: Blast From the Past
In the spirit of today's April Fool's/Apple birthday blasts from the past, we've got a giveaway prize pack that will remind us all of days gone by. [Yes, this is an actual giveaway, not a joke. -Ed.]Wrapping up our look at 33 years of Apple, we're giving away a few more computational artifacts:
Basic Apple BASIC, by James Coan, Fancy AppleSoft Programming by Gabriel Cuellar and 32 BASIC Programs for the Apple Computer by Rugg and Feldman for the old-school programmers out there. If you happen to have a machine to program Applesoft BASIC, why not try GEOS as well? It's an early GUI productivity suite for the Apple II series. We're giving away the entire package: manuals and disks (5.25" of course).
For you Mac folks, there's the ClarisWorks user's guide from 1989, some At Ease manuals and the MacProject II manual.
Finally, there's an Apple Color StyleWriter 2200 in great shape (but no warranty -- there are limits to AppleCare). We'll throw in some ink cartridges, but we've no idea if the ink still works.
- Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
- To enter leave a comment telling us the oldest Apple computer you've ever used.
- The comment must be left before April 5, 11:59PM Eastern Time.
- You may enter only once.
- One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
- Prize: One copy of Basic Apple BASIC, one copy of the 1989 ClarisWorks user guide, two At Ease manuals, one MacProject II manual, one copy of Fancy AppleSoft Programming, one copy of 32 BASIC Programs for the Apple Computer (no floppies or tapes included), an entire GEOS package (manuals and floppies) and an Apple ColorStyleWriter 2200 (no warranty, but we'll throw in some ink cartridges). (Total estimated value is $100)
- Click Here for complete Official Rules.
TUAWTUAW Retro Giveaway Part 2: Manuals, BASIC books and a printer originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple's Newest Snow Leopard (10A314) Shows Steady Improvements
Apple seeded developers with the latest build (10A314) of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) today. The latest beta version of Snow Leopard is said to be more stable than previous builds. Specifically, QuickTime X is said to have made significant strides...
iPhone app roundup: Quickoffice, Otto Matic, Evernote 2
Filed under: iPhone, App Store
First up: The long-awaited version of Quickoffice for iPhone that allows editing of Word and Excel files hit the store today and was demoed at CTIA. While QO has had a 'mobile files' tool on the iPhone for a while now, this is the first build of the venerable portable office suite (which has been a favorite on Palm and WinMo handhelds for years) that supports editing in both formats. Quickoffice for iPhone can do font formatting and cu
Files on the iPhone can be transferred off the device using WiFi to a local Mac, or straight to a MobileMe account. Quickoffice for iPhone is shipping now for an "introductory price" of $19.99, but if you just want the Excel spreadsheet editor (formerly MobileFiles Pro) you can have it for $12.99; the Word document editor is also $12.99. Quickoffice Files (previously known as MobileFiles 2.0) is $3.99 and offers similar file transfer capability to Readdle and other file managers. We're getting a review copy for a more thorough walkthrough later this week. It's worth n
Second... who doesn't love a good robot game? For $4.99, you can now dive into Pangea's classic Otto Matic series with the company's new title for iPhone, Otto Matic: Alien Invasion. The B-movie style game pits Otto against the attacking Brain Aliens from Planet X; his job is to save as many humans as possible. Otto Matic: Alien Invasion features 10 levels and 25 different enemies, multiple weapons and activities, and quite a bit of fun.
Lastly, the TUAW top pick Evernote has been updated with a nifty landscape mode, thumbnail viewing, improved performance, favorites sorting, and an embedded web browser to reduce the tap a link --> Safari --> back to home screen --> scroll around --> relaunch Evernote loop-the-loop annoyances. Evernote 2.0 for iPhone remains a free download, and the basic Evernote service is also free; a year of pro-level service costs $45.
TUAWiPhone app roundup: Quickoffice, Otto Matic, Evernote 2 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
A PCI Express SSD from Super Talent
As several manufacturers before, Super Talent announced the its first SSD in PCI Express format.
This drive allows you to reach 1.3 GB/s and 1.2 GB/s respectively in reading and writing modes on a PCI Express 2.0 8x. It can offer up to 2 TB of storage space (based on MLC or SLC chips) and sports several SSD units, unlike competitors, making it possible not only to offer a RAID 0 volume, but a RAID 5 setup, most probably the first one in a single unit for SSD.
As we reported it yesterday by installing 2 SSDs in a RAID 0 volume in a Mac Pro, we will have to get used to a totally new performance level of storage units, it will not be the bottleneck it used to be in the past decade.
MarketShare Unveils Figures for March
As every months, figures related to the market share of computer OS used to browse the US web have been collected and analyzed by MarketShare. In March, Apple marketshare moves up from 9.61% to 9.77%. Windows keeps dropping slowly, from 88.41% to 88.14%. The iPhone OS remains stable will 0.49% a quite big achievement for a non-computer OS. Regarding web browser, Safari market shares increases from 8.02% to 8.23%.
If Apple keeps grabbing market shares, it is not as fast as it used to be over the past 6 months. However, it also confirms than the financial crisis will not affect more specifically the Mac than any other PC models. NExt month we will see if the new anti-Apple Microsoft ads had any effect of those figures...
TUAW Retro Giveaway Part 2: Manuals, BASIC books and a printer
Filed under: Blast From the Past
In the spirit of today's April Fool's/Apple birthday blasts from the past, we've got a giveaway prize pack that will remind us all of days gone by. [Yes, this is an actual giveaway, not a joke. -Ed.]Wrapping up our look at 33 years of Apple, we're giving away a few more computational artifacts:
Basic Apple BASIC, by James Coan, Fancy AppleSoft Programming by Gabriel Cuellar and 32 BASIC Programs for the Apple Computer by Rugg and Feldman for the old-school programmers out there. If you happen to have a machine to program Applesoft BASIC, why not try GEOS as well? It's an early GUI productivity suite for the Apple II series. We're giving away the entire package: manuals and disks (5.25" of course).
For you Mac folks, there's the ClarisWorks user's guide from 1989, some At Ease manuals and the MacProject II manual.
Finally, there's an Apple Color StyleWriter 2200 in great shape (but no warranty -- there are limits to AppleCare). We'll throw in some ink cartridges, but we've no idea if the ink still works.
- Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
- To enter leave a comment telling us the oldest Apple computer you've ever used.
- The comment must be left before April 5, 11:59PM Eastern Time.
- You may enter only once.
- One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
- Prize: One copy of Basic Apple BASIC, one copy of the 1989 ClarisWorks user guide, two At Ease manuals, one MacProject II manual, one copy of Fancy AppleSoft Programming, one copy of 32 BASIC Programs for the Apple Computer (no floppies or tapes included), an entire GEOS package (manuals and floppies) and an Apple ColorStyleWriter 2200 (no warranty, but we'll throw in some ink cartridges). (Total estimated value is $100)
- Click Here for complete Official Rules.
TUAWTUAW Retro Giveaway Part 2: Manuals, BASIC books and a printer originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple's Newest Snow Leopard (10A314) Shows Steady Improvements
Apple seeded developers with the latest build (10A314) of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) today. The latest beta version of Snow Leopard is said to be more stable than previous builds. Specifically, QuickTime X is said to have made significant strides...
iPhone app roundup: Quickoffice, Otto Matic, Evernote 2
Filed under: iPhone, App Store
First up: The long-awaited version of Quickoffice for iPhone that allows editing of Word and Excel files hit the store today and was demoed at CTIA. While QO has had a 'mobile files' tool on the iPhone for a while now, this is the first build of the venerable portable office suite (which has been a favorite on Palm and WinMo handhelds for years) that supports editing in both formats. Quickoffice for iPhone can do font formatting and cu
Files on the iPhone can be transferred off the device using WiFi to a local Mac, or straight to a MobileMe account. Quickoffice for iPhone is shipping now for an "introductory price" of $19.99, but if you just want the Excel spreadsheet editor (formerly MobileFiles Pro) you can have it for $12.99; the Word document editor is also $12.99. Quickoffice Files (previously known as MobileFiles 2.0) is $3.99 and offers similar file transfer capability to Readdle and other file managers. We're getting a review copy for a more thorough walkthrough later this week. It's worth n
Second... who doesn't love a good robot game? For $4.99, you can now dive into Pangea's classic Otto Matic series with the company's new title for iPhone, Otto Matic: Alien Invasion. The B-movie style game pits Otto against the attacking Brain Aliens from Planet X; his job is to save as many humans as possible. Otto Matic: Alien Invasion features 10 levels and 25 different enemies, multiple weapons and activities, and quite a bit of fun.
Lastly, the TUAW top pick Evernote has been updated with a nifty landscape mode, thumbnail viewing, improved performance, favorites sorting, and an embedded web browser to reduce the tap a link --> Safari --> back to home screen --> scroll around --> relaunch Evernote loop-the-loop annoyances. Evernote 2.0 for iPhone remains a free download, and the basic Evernote service is also free; a year of pro-level service costs $45.
TUAWiPhone app roundup: Quickoffice, Otto Matic, Evernote 2 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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