New and Noteworthy: Putting RAID 0 in your MacBook Pro; Will the iPhone do for mobile music what iTunes did for online music?; m

Putting RAID 0 in your MacBook Pro SlashGear reports that Eric Cheng setup RAID 0 using two 160GB in a MacBook Pro. "He claims the system becomes snappier, but louder and well, a battery power drinker. Cheng's benchmark shows pretty impressing speed increases on the hard drives read and write test." More.

Will the iPhone do for mobile music what iTunes did for online music? Mobile Digest is the latest to ask that question, coming to these conclusions: "Ironically, it will be iTunes that underpins music on the iPhone, so in reality it will be the software that needs to change to facilitate a successful iPhone experience. [...] Only time will tell, but it's in the area of portable music devices and accompanying software that Apple has, arguably, made its biggest mark amongst general consumers. Apple likes to set trends. How will the iPhone shape mobile music, or will mobile music shape future generations of iPhone?" More.

SubRosaSoft's MacLockPick extracts personal info from OS X engadget reports on SubRosaSoft's "MacLockPick," which combines physical access security comprimise with decryption tools to get access to keychain information and other personal data. "Once the software on the included drive is ran, it automatically extracts data from the Apple Keychain and system settings to "provide the examiner fast access to the suspect's critical information with as little interaction or trace as possible." The program then compiles the details into a database and stores it back on the drive's internal memory, which can supposedly be read back on Windows, Linux, or OS X machines at base." More.

Previously on MacFixIt:

• Security Update 2007-004 (#6): AirPort connectivity issues in Mac OS X 10.3.9, clear caches
• Adobe Creative Suite 3: Cannot be installed on case-sensitive HFS volumes

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