Month: May 2006

Reviews: Apple MacBook (Final Cut Studio Benchmarks)

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HardMac.com has a comparison of the Apple MacBook“>Apple MacBook with other Apple notebooks of the past.

Something that has generated a lot of buzz – CreativeMac has published some benchmarks using Apple’s Final Cut Studio. Keeping in mind that Final Cut Studio is considered to be a “professional” application, and is not targeted at the same audience that the MacBook is Final Cut Studio is a suite of applications for video, motion graphics, and audio manipulation/editing and is well regarded in the movie industry, and it is a Univeral Binary (it will run well on either PowerPC or Intel-based Macs).

Windows Vista Beta 2

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CNET has a video review/preview if Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2.

PC Magazine has put together a special report of Windows Vista Beta 2, which it calls a “critical milestone on the release plan”.

There’s a lot of attention being paid to this beta, (it’s being unveiled in Seattle at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)), because at this point the key features are pretty much locked in, and now it’s being tweaked and fixed in preparation for a launch either later this year or early next. Basically what you see now is going to be 95% of what you see when it launches, hence the interest.

Office 2007 Public Beta (Beta 2)

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If you are curious about the new features of Microsoft Office 2007, there is now a Public Beta available, that will allow you to use Office 2007 Beta 2 and its components (Visio, Publisher, Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.). It has a brand-new interface, and places much more emphasis on collaboration.

You can obtain it and the beta keys here: Microsoft.com – Office Preview

Epson Adds More Cases/Designs for Endeavor NT350

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Epson has added more versions/case designs for its Epson Endeaver NT350 ultraportable notebook. The NT350 has a a 12.1-inch display with an Intel Celeron M or Pentium M. They have a Disney line of designs already. This is just one more way for them to stand out I suppose – Dell and others offer similar designs for some of their notebooks, although I believe they are using 3rd parties.