New and Noteworthy: Adobe cuts Mac Premiere support; Miglia ships MediaBank MT-R 400 GB and 500 GB; more
New and Noteworthy: Adobe cuts Mac Premiere support; Miglia ships MediaBank MT-R 400 GB and 500 GB; more
Adobe cuts Mac Premiere support Adobe Systems has announced a new version of Premiere, its main application for editing digital video. The new Premiere Pro will work only on PCs running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, ending years of support for the Mac OS. "David Trescot, senior director of Adobe's digital video products group, said the new edition of Premiere is a complete rewrite of the application and it didn't make financial sense to support the Mac anymore." More.
Miglia ships MediaBank MT-R 400 GB and 500 GB MediaBank MT-R is a dual bay external FireWire hard drive case made out of aluminium and featuring dual Oxford 911 ATA-to-FireWire bridge boards. The 240 GB version ships with IBM 180 GXP 7200 rpm drives (2MB cache), the 400 and 500 GB versions with Maxtor 7200 rpm drives (2MB cache). Prices range from US$ 479 to US$ 999. More.
Jobs Vs. Gates on 'trusted computing' TheStar.com has an article comapring Steve Jobs and Bill Gates' differing views on "trusted computing." Jobs argued that elaborate hardware-software schemes like the one being pursued by the Trusted Computing Group will not achieve their purpose. "It's a falsehood," he said. "You can prove to yourself that that hardware doesn't make it more secure." That is not Microsoft's view. The company has begun showing a test copy of a variation of its Windows operating system that was originally named Palladium. The name was changed last year after a trademark dispute. More.Resources