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Reader Article on 8800GT card kit in 1st Gen Mac Pro
(from a reader mail yesterday)

" I just published my experience with the new NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT graphics upgrade for the first generation Mac Pro. http://www.alexnat.de/technology/mac_pro_graphics_upgrade_8800gt_first_generation.html
Perhaps you could link to my article...
Best Regards, Thomas"

Like an earlier reader, he also noted having to install beta Nvidia drivers for the 1st Gen Mac Pro 8800GT card.

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Price Cuts on fast Samsung F1 1TB and 750GB SATA Drives
Just a FYI OWC cut some drive prices on the site specials page including lowering the fast Samsung F1 1TB to $209.50 and the Samsung F1 750GB to $125. (Oliver showed impressive performance from the 3 platter F1 1TB drive in his Review of 1TB hard drives in his Mac Pro.)
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OS 9 Authoring support file for Pioneer DVR-115D
(For users of OS 9.x which hasn't had any burn support updates for many many years and likely never will.) I don't have a DVR-115D drive/OS 9 boot system to test this personally but Dave sent a Modified PioneerCDR file edited for the Pioneer DVR-115D drive. (He later wrote he verified the edited file function by burning CDs in the Finder and iTunes for OS 9.x.)
Note: The downloaded (and uncompressed of course) PioneerCDR file replaces the existing one in the (OS 9) System Folder/Extensions/Authoring Support Files folder.
If you have Toast 5.xx (the last OS 9.x compatible version - v5.23 I think was the last update) that's a more flexible/better choice however and supports most drives regardless of Apple burn support.

For OS X 10.2.x or 10.3.x burn support for unsupported drives try the appropriate version of Patchburn available at http://www.patchburn.de/download.html. OS X 10.4 and later (including OS X 10.5/Leopard) has basic iApps burn support for most drives without it although there is a Patchburn4 for OS X 10.4/Tiger.

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Apple buying low-power chip designer
Several stories today on the web about Apple acquiring low-power chip designer P.A. Semi.
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Other News/Articles, Mac Software Updates
(Updated during the day, later added items first)

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Recent Articles and Reviews
Listing/links to recent articles and reviews you may have missed.
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