What's New - Feb 20, 2008
By: Benjamin Martin - Revised: 2008-03-25 ben
Introduction
What's new for the Mac in the previous month:
- General issues, workarounds and fixes
- New Software and hardware
- Software and hardware updates/patches
- Apple Inc. related news
Contents
- Meeting Agenda
- 10.5.2 Client
- 10.5.2 Server
- Security Update 2008-001
- QuickTime 7.4.1
- Apple Retail News
- MacPro goes to Hapertown
- Unlimited Mobile Plans
- Humor
Meeting Agenda
What's New
Casper Suite
- Amy Larson & Jonah Klevesahl of JAMF Software
System Image Utility
- Dan Hutten of University of Utah
Hacking the iPhone
10.5.2 Client
Reference:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307109 - Active Directory
- Airport
- Fixed 802.1X
- Works great with "secure.utah.edu"
- Dock
- Stacks now has multiple view options
- Desktop
- Menu bar less translucent
- Finder
- Third party application support
- Stability and performance of login
- And many ... many ... many ... more
10.5.2 Server
Reference:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307110 - Software update server
- Software update server didn't work properly on servers upgraded from 10.4.x
- Mail server
- Added name support in addition to short names
- Password server
- Open Directory replica propagation
Apple Retail News
Reference:
http://www.macnn.com/ - Shuffle price cut: 1GB $49
- New shuffle: 2GB
- No pricing info released yet
- iPhone at 6th place in 2007 US phone sales
- Not bad for only being available half the year
- Apple released XSan 2
MacPro goes to Harpertown
Reference:
http://arstechnica.com - Hapertown CPUs in the MacPro (CPU using 45 nm process)
- 12MB L2 Cache, support SEE-4 vector operations
- Front side bus: 1.6GHz (up from 1.33 GHz)
- Supports 32GB RAM ($9,100 via Apple)
Unlimited Mobile Plans
Reference:
http://www.news.com - AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile
- Each announced flat rate plans for unlimited calls in the US (no roaming/long distance)
- iPhone unlimited
- $120 ($99 for voice $20 for data)