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Book Excerpt: MacMost.com--Guide to Switching to the Mac

Buying a Mac

Gary Rosenzweig

So you've decided to buy a Mac. Congratulations! Macs are great computers and your Mac will soon be a valuable tool for work, recreation, and communication. Perhaps, however, you're not sure which Mac to buy.You are not alone.There are many choices.Most people who switch to Mac have this same question. Which one? You've got three major choices in a desktop machine: the Mac mini, the iMac, and the Mac Pro. And you have three choices in a notebook: the MacBook,MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air. Read More >>


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Elemental Accelerator showcased at SIGGRAPH 2009

Plug-in offers 11x speedup of h.264 encoding in Premiere Pro CS4

At SIGGRAPH 2009, the Elemental Accelerator 2.0 plug-in for NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards can be seen at PNY Booth #2017. It was also announced that Hewlett Packard's HP Z workstations have been outfitted with the CUDA based plug-in to enhance and speed up processes in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

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Lenovo ThinkStation S20 workstation

Mid range workstation supports up to three hard drives, 12GB RAM

The Lenovo ThinkStation S20 is the company's mid range workstation that works well in a variety of creative environments, be it video and special effects creation to CAD and animation. Configured with the right graphics card, the unit will fit well in any creative environment. The S20 is larger than most mid-tower cases, and sports ample room inside for user upgrades.

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Content Insider #116 --Security

Data Security - A Balance Between Convenience, Privacy, Stupidity

Software and hardware manufacturers have introduced and continue to develop some of the best computing and online security solutions to protect you and your content from being not just compromised but stolen and used. Lose your hardware and yes it is a pain but it can be replaced. Lose your data and your identity can be used in the blink of an eye. The best and most expensive security solutions in the industry seem to be useless against relentless thieves and your own stupidity or careless action.

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HP EliteBook 8730W

Mobile workstation with power

Hewlett Packard has been known for years for its solid workstations. The company has been an innovator when it comes to content creation machines, even supplying its own designed graphics adapters in the late 1990s to power its visual systems. When the company decides to enter the market, it does so with a lot of thought, offering systems that are unique from what is currently available from its competitors, yet still remaining price competitive. The company's latest mobile offering is such a system.

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The Great After Effects Mac/Windows Smackdown: CS4 Edition

Re-running the benchmarks to see which OS runs AE better

Last summer I got curious. With the advent of Intel Macs, Boot Camp, and Universal builds of After Effects, for the first time it was possible to forget about all the Intel vs. PowerPC benchmarks that had been run to that point and effectively remove hardware from the equation, focusing solely on the OS and how well AE was tuned to it. XP took the prize back then, but I'm curious again, and with Mac OS X Leopard, 64-bit Vista, and After Effects CS4 at my disposal, it's time to find out where things stand today.

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iLuv's iMM183 Weather band radio for iPod and...
The iMM183 Hi-Fi Dual Dock Alarm Clock ($149) features NOA/S.A.M.E Weather Hazard Alert system, and can dock iPhones and iPods simultaneously. So when you are snoozing in bed and that impending foul weather comes bearing down, you'll know it th... Read More
 
Google Voice lets users keep phone number
Google Inc has introduced a new feature that will allow consumers to use its Google Voice service without switching to a special phone number, potentially broadening the appeal of the nascent, and controversial, service. Google said late Monday... Read More
 
America beats Guadalajara in first game shown in ...
Excited Mexicans clutching buckets of popcorn and soft drinks in cinemas ducked whenever the ball was kicked toward them as they watched Sunday's big game between America and Guadalajara in 3D. At the packed Azteca, thousands more had a mor... Read More
 
Shrimp's eye points way to better DVDs
The amazing eyes of a giant shrimp living on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could hold the key to developing a new type of super high-quality DVD player, British scientists said on Sunday. Mantis shrimps, dubbed "thumb splitters" by divers ... Read More
 
Day One With Windows 7
Windows 7 is here and not a moment too soon. Microsoft's two-and-a-half year old operating system is a dog, and will hopefully be put to pasture. After many years of development, Windows 7 shipped October 22, and after a full day of using Windo... Read More
 

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