Snow Leopard 10.6 from Apple is set to go on sale Friday

Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Turbo in Technology

Snow Leopard the OS software that Apple has been working for sometime now and testing has passed all tests and should things go per plan Apple Inc Mac Operating System X Snow Leopard 10.6 version will be available from Friday, earlier than the promised date; the Apple’s store online is taking the pre order bookings.

Snow Leopard will also go on sale before launch of Microsoft’s next OS. The installation of Snow Leopard will eat up 1GB RAM and will run on the Mac which uses Intel processor.

Apple also says that the Mac OS X Leopard, or 10.5 version users could get upgrade to the latest 10.6 version for a one time fee of $29 in case of single license and for a fee of $49 for five-users family package. However, those who are using the OS Tiger, or the 10.4 version on Intel-using Mac may swap to Snow Leopard 10.6 for $169 and $229, respectively.

The Snow Leopard OS received focus on its speed of functioning, reliability as well as stability.

Atom-based Nokia Netbook Set for the Q3 launch?

Posted on 25. Jun, 2009 by Turbo in Technology

Nokia has a huge handset market, but lately we have heard that the handset maker is foraying into the Netbook market too. It is in this context that both Nokia and Intel formed a technical collaboration although we weren’t too sure about the products that might come from the collaboration.

Should rumors be taken seriously, then the Finnish phone manufacturer and Intel are working on netbooks with Intel Atom processor. It seems the Finnish phone maker ordered some machines from Taiwanese OEMs Compal and Quanta, both of which manufactured equipment for many netbook brands we see in the market today.

It is also rumored that Nokia netbook (a Nokiabook) will only have the Intel Atom processor and Compal is slated to be the architect for designing the Qualcomm snapdragon based Nokia smartbook. So far, there is no clue as to the Operating system of the netbook (a Maemo? maybe), but rumors flying thick that the netbook will be launched during Q3 2009.