It turns out Thunderbolt is pretty stinking fast. In our lab tests, . If you actually want to put your new Mac’s Thunderbolt port to work, you’ll want to grab , along with its new . You also might want to try to procure a loan, if you’re desperate to pick up one of the new, professional-grade Thunderbolt RAIDs.
editorial director Jason Snell spent some time with HP’s new TouchPad and . As I read it, the TouchPad is to the iPad as, say, Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” is to Madonna’s “Express Yourself.” You can appreciate the new one’s painfully clear homage to the original, but it’s easier to love the original. The TouchPad, while impressive on some levels, just .
this week, and we wrote up . No matter how much attention Microsoft pays to its new cloud service, we doubt senior contributor Andy Ihnatko will ever .
Apple has promised that Lion’s coming in July, and by gum if my calendar doesn’t say . Any final preparation you need to ready your Mac for Lion’s unveiling needs to get handled, stat. Your Lion trainer and mine, Chris Breen, shared . He also wrote up a walkthrough for those of you ; Snow Leopard is the end of the road for AppleWorks, so if you don’t want to lose access to your old files after your Lion upgrade, make sure you read through Chris’s advice. We also want to let you AppleWorks devotees know that, not too long ago, Apple released a very cool cellphone that you may not have heard about yet.
The Mac IT Guy wrote up ; if nothing else, we’re certain that Apple’s new operating system is better for your business than an actual wild lion.
In the never-ending saga that is the Final Cut Pro X controversy, Apple , declaring—among other things—that the app will never be able to import Final Cut Pro 7 projects. I wrote and published ’s story on that FAQ by 6:40 a.m. my time, because of my passion for breaking news. Well, that and the fact that I live with three kids under five years old, so I was unsurprisingly awake anyway.
We shared . Personally, all I want is for iTunes to do stuff, beyond music playback, app, music, movie, and book shopping, iPod and iOS device syncing, podcast discovery, and Ping. Okay, I don’t want it to do Ping at all, actually. Speaking of iTunes, we offered some advice on how to keep your music—along with your photos, and the rest of your Mac’s data—.
We shared a hint on , tips on (example: Use non-flammable cameras), and .
Apple's legal woes with and are ongoing. I expect we'll see soon.
With that, you’re pretty caught up on the past week at . And I’m off to find some sparklers.