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Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Growing in enterprise: Two out of three IT administrators at large organizations with Macs and PCs said they expect to see an increase in the number of Macs this year, according to a newly released survey by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance.Tom Cromelin, spokesperson for the Enterprise Desktop Alliance, says the survey shows “a green field of opportunity to educate people” about how to manage a Mac-PC environment in the enterprise.
The key finding is that 66 per cent of respondents said they expect to see more Macs at their companies.
Big in France: Apple had a strong holiday quarter in Western Europe, according to research firm Gartner. Apple shipped 182,000 machines in the fourth quarter of 2009, earning the company a 5.5 per cent total market share in France. Apple's emergence in fifth place came as a result of 43.5 per cent year-over-year growth in the market.
NVIDIA Optimus and other new chips may be headed for Macs: Launched earlier this month, NVIDIA's Optimus is a clever solution that could – and probably will, reckons Ars Technica – completely turn around NVIDIA's fortunes in the mobile space. It's also extremely likely that, as a new rumor suggests, the technology will make an appearance in the next revision of Apple's MacBook line of portables.
NVIDIA will also officially launch the GeForce GTX480 and GTX470 graphics cards next month at the upcoming PAX East gaming conference, according to a Twitter post. The components are the first to integrate the company's Fermi architecture. The technology is said to improve graphics performance while expanding support for other standards such as OpenCL and PhysX, writes Electroinsta.
Apple third in BusninessWeek satisfaction survey: Apple has achieved a high ranking in yet another customer service comparison, placing third in a BusinessWeek lineup (pic). The company gained nearly 10 per cent in the scoring to reach the highest position of any computer maker, with the retailer LL Bean holding the top spot and the insurance company USAA coming in second.
Macworld tip – one Mac, two Time Machine backups: It can be done easily and the two volumes can have the same name, writes Christopher Breen.
Sonnet Technologies ' Fusion™ F2 portable 2-drive RAID storage system and Sportscene: media production service Sportscene has used a Sonnet Fusion for coverage of the 2009 International Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe Slalom World Championships in the Spanish Pyrenees.
For the on-location production of event video news flashes, the rugged Fusion F2 provided Sportscene fast and reliable data storage, with the convenience of operation without the need for external AC power. Sonnett is represented in New Zealand by MacSense Ltd.
