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Leopard compatibility ups and downs

The list of applications compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 keeps growing, but a good number of Leopard-savvy updates to printer drivers are still on hold. Before upgrading, Tiger users should make sure that their printers will be supported completely under Leopard. At last week's meeting of...

Tags: Printer, Apple Macintosh, Problem, Driver, Printer Driver, Epson, Apple Inc., Brother, Canon Inc., Leopard, Leopard Compatibility Situation, Printers, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-12-03

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Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Midori, Microsoft Corp., operating system, SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

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Tags: Desktops, Apple Inc., Psystar, Mac-clone, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-04-22

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Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Blogging, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office, ISO

Discussion threads 2008-02-05

CatNip 1.0 for Mac

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Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Cat, CatNip 1.0, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-12-12

Developers remain in dark about Leopard GM bug fixes

Apple says it's ready to release Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to customers on Friday, Oct. 26. But developers won't see the Golden Master final candidate before the rest of us and some complain that they have no idea whether their problem bugs will be fixed in the release candidate....

Tags: Developer, Apple Inc., David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Mac OS X Leopard release to set off wave of hardware upgrades

The buzz is building over what Mac OS 10.5 Leopard will mean to Mac users and Apple's bottom line, in advance of the update's expected release later this month and the company's quarterly conference call next Monday, respectively. Unlike the fizzle that PC users showed for the...

Tags: Developer, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Hardware Upgrade, Performance, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, IBM PowerPC, User, Machine, Leopard, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-10-15