mac os

LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive (500GB) review

Reviews It supports Windows 2000/XP or later and Mac OS 10.2.8 (OS 10.3 for eSATA) or later. The drive comes with backup software for both Windows and Mac users, as well. The bundled software includes LaCie 1-Click Backup software, SilverKeeper software...

Editor's rating   7.5

Tags: lacie, usb, connected, connection

22 February 2007, 14:26

LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive (80GB) review

Reviews Drive type: Portable hard drive • Capacity: USB 2.0 only: 80GB, 120GB (5,400rpm); triple interface: 80GB, 100GB and 120GB (5,400rpm; 7,200rpm for 100GB version) • Capacity of test unit: 100GB (triple interface version) • Cache: 8MB • Dimension: 89...

Editor's rating   8.3

Tags: lacie, hard drive, firewire, pin

25 August 2006, 10:00

Apple iMac G5 review

Reviews We attribute some of this performance gain to the new optimisations Apple has made to Mac OS X between version X 10.3.3 and X 10.3.5. Apple Power Mac G5 dual 2.5GHzMac OS X 10.3.5; Dual 2.5GHz PowerPC G5; 4096MB DDR SDRAM 400MHz; 256MB ATI Radeon...

Editor's rating   7

Tags: apple, ultra, photoshop, bars

8 October 2004, 21:39

Apple iPod Mini (4GB, 2nd generation) review

Reviews Mac OS X users can do the same thing if they install TinkerTool. When you sync the player to iTunes 4.2 or later, the new playlist uploads to your PC or Mac and can download back to the Mini automatically for later listening.

Editor's rating   8.7

Tags: apple computer, inc., charge, playlist, battery life

17 March 2005, 22:20

Epson Stylus Photo R800 review

Reviews The R800 comes with drivers for most recent flavours of Windows, as well as Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.x and OS X 10.1.3 or later. If you've been eyeing the Epson Stylus Photo 2100 but balking at its price, get ready to pull out your wallet.

Editor's rating   8

Tags: epson, digital camera, printers, path

7 May 2004, 12:28

Apple MacBook (white, 2.16GHz) review

Reviews As before, the MacBook ships with Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, which includes Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat AV, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player and Xcode Developer Tools. It's not as light as equivalent PC-based laptops such as the...

Editor's rating   8.3

Tags: apple, hard drive, mac os, ram

17 July 2007, 16:02

Cowon iAudio X5 (30GB) review

Reviews The player should appear as a lettered drive in Explorer or a removable device in Mac OS X, and you can drag music and images into their respective directories. That said, Mac users will have to find another way to make their videos compatible with...

Editor's rating   7.3

Tags: cowon systems, digital photos, digital camera, playlist

5 August 2005, 15:43

Canon Pixma iP90 review

Reviews The iP90's printer drivers are compatible with Mac OS X 10.2.1 to 10.3x and Windows 98 through XP, but Easy-PhotoPrint is the only Mac-compatible software. Thanks to built-in PictBridge and infrared (IrDA) ports, you can print directly from your...

Editor's rating   7.5

Tags: canon, digital camera, cd rom, adaptor

21 July 2006, 11:46

Apple iMac Core Duo (20-inch, 2.0GHz) review

Reviews Both iChat and Front Row have been reprogrammed to run on the Intel chips, as has Apple's Tiger OS X 10.4.4 and the newly announced iLife 06 digital media productivity software, which Apple includes in all new iMacs for free.

Editor's rating   7

Tags: apple, binary, boost, universal

24 March 2006, 9:16

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review

Reviews On some of our apps -- iTunes and Photoshop in particular -- differences between running the programs on Windows XP and Apple OS X are likely to impact on performance, but it's worth noting that even with a slower hard drive, the Mac Pro outpaced...

Editor's rating   8.7

Tags: intel, raw, photoshop, chip

15 November 2006, 13:40

Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.33GHz) review

Reviews System configurations:Apple MacBook Pro (15.4-inch 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo)OS X 10.4.8; Core 2 Duo 2.3GHz; 3GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz; ATI Mobility Radeon x1600 256MB; 150GB Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 5,400rpm Apple MacBook Pro (15.4-inch 2.0GHz Core Duo)OS X...

Editor's rating   7.4

Tags: apple, boost, hard drive, ram

1 December 2006, 10:00

Tapwave Zodiac1 review

Reviews FeaturesRunning on a zippy 200MHz ARM processor and a modified version of Palm OS 5.2, the Tapwave Zodiac1 ships with a whopping 32MB of onboard memory, 12MB of which are reserved for system use. Along with the classic Address Book, Date Book, and...

Editor's rating   7.5

Tags: tapwave, microsoft outlook, titles, handhelds

6 May 2005, 11:20

Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.4GHz) review

Reviews Apple Mac OS X 10.4 Apple's recent update of its 13-inch MacBook line was a modest one, with an incremental processor upgrade and updated default components. However, the 15 and 17-inch MacBook Pro laptops have gotten a much more radical...

Editor's rating   8.2

Tags: apple, speakers, battery life, encoding

17 October 2007, 13:30

Apple iBook G4 (12-inch) preview

Reviews Perhaps best of all, you get Apple's terrific software package, including Mac OS X Tiger and iLife '05. Apple has delivered a small but important refresh to its iBook line of budget notebooks, doubling the amount of standard RAM to 512MB, offering...

Tags: apple, line, ram, package

2 August 2005, 15:24

Samsung SPP-2040 photo printer review

Reviews It was a piece of cake to load the cartridge, pop paper into the tray and install the Windows printer driver (the SPP-2040 also includes drivers for Mac OS X), the Photo Thru editing software and a status-monitor program.

Editor's rating   6.8

Tags: samsung, tray, paper, colour

3 October 2005, 16:55