Compiled by Charles Moore
and edited by
Dan Knight
- 2007.06.01
The rumor of the week is that Apple will discontinue the Mac
mini, something we've already looked at here on Low End Mac (see
If the Mac mini Is Dead, What Will
Replace It?).
In what may seem like a ridiculous comparison, Hal
Licino pits a 1986 Mac Plus running System 6 and Microsoft Word
and Excel against a 2.4 GHz AMD dual-core system running Windows,
Word, and Excel - and finds that the Mac Plus is every bit as
productive for these tasks!
PowerBook, iBook, MacBook, and other portable computing is
covered in The 'Book Review.
All prices are in US dollars unless otherwise noted.
End of the Mac mini?
News & Opinion
Products
iPod News
Software
End of the Mac mini?
Has the Mac mini Breathed Its Last?
MacUser's Dan Moren says:
"The Mac mini is an oddity in
the Apple lineup. Many Mac users had long demanded a low cost
headless Mac, and while the mini fell short in some regards
(limited and difficult upgradeability, for example), to others it
was yet another example of Apple's excellent design. But the latest
revision to the mini was in September of last year, which included
a modest speed bump to 1.66 GHz Core Duo and 1.83 GHz Core Duo for
the $599 and $799 models respectively. Indeed, aside from the
processors (and attendant 'inflationary' changes in RAM and
storage) the minis have changed little since their introduction in
January 2005.
"
AppleInsider suggests this inattention means that the Mac mini
is out of luck, citing Apple's lower margins on the cheap Mac, and
the fact that it was never an area they seriously wanted to compete
in anyway...."
Link:
Has the Mac mini Breathed Its Last?
Mac mini is Unloved, Not Dead in the Water
Wired's Pete Mortensen says:
"I'm genuinely puzzled by AppleInsider's melodramatic post
pronouncing the death of the Mac
mini. The article recounts Apple's many slights of its
lowest-end platform and then proceeds to show know [sic] evidence
that the line will soon be killed off.
"It has seen just four updates since inception, one of which was
so insignificant in Apple's own eyes that the company didn't even
bother to draft a press release. Even now, the current minis' 1.66
GHz and 1.83 GHz Core Duo processors are a far cry from the silicon
offered in the rest of Apple's PC offerings.
"...Apple still needs a low-end entry, and the Mac mini costs
very little to develop and revise. I don't see Apple just walking
away."
Link: Mac
mini is Unloved, Not Dead in the Water
News & Opinion
1986 Mac Plus vs. 2007 AMD Dual Core
Hubpages' Hal Licino reports:
"We are in the third decade of global personal computing, and
have we really progressed that far?
"Let's go back to the dawn of personal computing and grab an old
sentimental favorite, the Apple Macintosh Plus. The Mac Plus is an icon
of the '80s along with padded shoulders, big hair and Devo. It seems that we all
had a little Mac, either in our college dorm room, in the upstairs
bedroom, or on our office desk at some time. With its tiny 9-inch
black & white screen and all-in-one packaging, the Mac Plus is
a computing relic in the days of widescreen LCD monitors and dual-
and quad-core systems.
"However, to run these state-of-the-art PCs, we need to install
one of the latest OSs. And that's where we run into trouble. Most
people today have either Windows XP or Vista on their PCs. These
OSs are modern, possess virtually infinite capacities and can run
any of the most modern software. With the greater functionality
comes size.
"The Comparison
"The generally recommended configuration for a Mac Plus is
System 6.0.8. This is an OS that needs a
legitimate minimum of 1 megabyte of RAM to be able to multitask,
connect to a network, print, display WYSIWYG in millions of colours
(on modular Macs), as well as run a reasonable GUI. Those are
functions that usually require at least 500 times more memory under
Windows XP and 1,000 times more memory under Windows Vista.
"When we look at OS hard disk requirements, we find similar
discrepancies....
"The Mac Plus has a Motorola 68000 CPU running at 8 MHz.
The AMD has an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ with two cores, each running at
2.4 GHz. In absolute computing power exclusively measured in
processor speed, AMD's combined 4.8 GHz is 600 times faster than
the Motorola. However, the AMD is a far more advanced processor,
thus performs in conventional benchmarks much faster than the old
68000 per MHz. So it's very safe to say that the AMD is at least
1,000 times faster than the Mac Plus.
"We decided to splurge and fit the maximum possible 4 MB
RAM into the old Plus. After all it was going up against AMD with
its 2 x 512 MB RAM for a total of 1,024 MB or 1 GB. That's
about 250 times more memory than the Mac.
"The Mac was fitted with an external SCSI 40 MB Hard Drive. The
AMD had an internal IDE 120 GB Hard Drive with a 3,000 times
greater data capacity. Both drives were under 10% filled....
"Conclusion
"...For the functions that people use most often, the 1986
vintage Mac Plus beats the 2007 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+: 9 tests to
8! Out of the 17 tests, the antique Mac won 53% of the time!
Including a jaw-dropping 52 second whipping of the AMD from the
time the Power button is pushed to the time the Desktop is up and
useable."
Editor's note: I happen to own a Mac Plus, and it still works
fine - or did the last time I booted it up. I detest the clunky
keyboard and mouse, but it was a charming little workhorse in its
day, and I agree that it is downright speedy doing some things
(like startup) compared with today's behemoths. And I love System
6. A wistful fantasy of mine is a GUI for OS X's powerful Unix
underpinnings with the minimalist but attractive simplicity of
System 6. Bet it would scream! cm
Which is Faster: USB or FireWire?
chris.pirillo.com says:
"In response to the general question (which is faster, FireWire
or USB), jorowi posts a
follow-up video explaining that there, indeed, are FireWire 800
devices - specifically, in external hard drives of the high
capacity variety. I've opted for an eSATA external drive, which
should be fine for the time being. Still, if I had a choice between
USB or FireWire for devices (generally speaking), I'd go with USB -
with the exceptions to the rule being hard drives and video cameras
(camcorders).
"USB is seriously Universal. FireWire is . . . likely
going to die at some point in the future...."
Editor's note: I certainly hope rumors of FireWire's demise are
greatly exaggerated. Even FireWire 400 is faster than USB 2.0, and
you can boot pre-Intel Macs from a FireWire drive but not from USB.
cm
Link:
Which is Faster: USB or FireWire?
Why Most People Should Buy a Mac
APCMag's Danny Gorog says:
"APC readers are not ordinary computer users.
"We can swap a hard drive in under three minutes, buy RAM with
the right latency instinctively and maintain an updated OS image
almost as easily as breathing.
"But that's the point - we're not average computer users.
"If you're an 'average' computer user, choosing to buy a Mac is
the right decision.
"Sure, Macs are not for hardcore gamers who demand to be able to
play all the latest game titles. They're not for people who like to
tweak every aspect of their computer on a clockspeed level [though
that's not to say there's not a very active Mac hardware tweaking
community].
"But the people described above are not average computer
users.
"On the whole, the ordinary person needs a computer that lets
them email, surf the web, write letters and documents, browse and
edit digital photos, rip and listen to music and watch DVDs. They
might dabble in P2P and Skype.
"For those users, a Mac is absolutely ideal, and the only
decision they need to make is whether to by an Apple notebook or
desktop."
Link: Why Most
People Should Buy a Mac
Google Desktop Offers Power, but Little
Intelligence
Macworld's Dan Moren reports:
"Hard-drive storage capacities are constantly increasing, but
for some of us, all that extra space just makes it harder to find
the files we're looking for. So it's little surprise that Google
has tried to bring its search expertise to your Mac. The beta
release of Google Desktop shows promise, but people expecting the
famed omniscience of Google's online search engine may be
disappointed....
"Google Desktop does have some advantages over Spotlight. Many
users complain that Spotlight makes it difficult to search for
files just by name; with Google Desktop, you can simply type
'filename:penguin' to have it show you files with the word penguin
in the name...."
Upgrading Mac mini's Hard Drive and
Partitioning to Use Boot Camp & Vista
Blogger drmcghee says:
"I spent the weekend, amongst other things upgrading my Mac mini hard-drive from the standard 80
GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive to a Toshiba 200 GB (note:
20 GB must remain for Mac OS X when using Boot Camp) MK2035GSS
4200 RPM 8 MB Cache SATA/150 Notebook Hard Drive.
"I'm also thinking, at some point, of upgrading the CPU to a
Intel 2.16 Core 2 Duo Mobile CPU, but that can wait.
"After doing quite a bit of reading and research on how to
upgrade, I remembered from my memory installation there are some
great videos here: https://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/installation.cfm
"Replacing the drive physically was the easy part. The difficult
task was cloning my drive. With Boot Camp you have three partitions
(one that Boot Camp needs, one that Mac OS X uses and the
Vista partition)."
Link:
Results of Upgrading My Mac mini HDD, Cloning, Partitioning to
Maintain Vista Setup
Products
Wireless-G USB Adapter Designed for Macs
PR: Hawking
Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of wired/wireless
networking and home automation solutions for small office/home
office (SOHO) and small-to-medium business (SMB) users, announced
the release of its HWUG1A Wireless-G USB Adapter for Mac Users
today. The HWUG1A is the first such adapter designed for Apple Mac
users with a removable antenna. The included external antenna can
easily be removed and upgraded to a Hawking Hi-Gain™ antenna
for a significant improvement in wireless range.
"The problem with wireless networks these days isn't the speed,
but the distance. If your wireless adapter does not have the
wireless strength to go the distance, your network speed won't make
any difference. You'll either end up with a weak signal or get
dropped from your network entirely, and that results in slow file
transfers and a lack of mobility. Like its sister product, the
HWUG1 for PC users, the HWUG1A provides Mac users with the extended
wireless range they need. The removable antenna gives Mac users the
ability to customize their wireless networks for their specific
applications. Most importantly, the HWUG1A can solve most WiFi
trouble spot scenarios by allowing users to choose from our full
suite of Hi-Gain WiFi Range Extending solutions. And the best part:
installing the HWUG1A is easy - just pop in the CD to install the
software, plug in the adapter, and you're connected," said Amy
Tang, Marketing Manager at Hawking Technologies.
The HWUG1A connects to any Mac desktop or notebook computer
using a USB 2.0 connection and features an antenna that easily
unscrews from the adapter. Hawking offers a wide range of both
Hi-Gain™ indoor and outdoor antennas that are compatible with
the HWUG1A and can boost the user's wireless connection distance up
to 600%.
The HWUG1A also supports wireless Turbo Mode for connection
speeds of up to 108 Mbps when connected to a Hawking Technologies
Wireless-108G MIMO Router. Advanced security features and support
for WPA2 and WPA ensure that all data is encrypted and secure.
The HWUG1A offers the following key features:
- Wireless networking compatibility with any Mac OS X 10.3-10.4
(Intel or Power PC) system.
- External antenna allows for significantly improved wireless
range and performance.
- Installs in seconds with intuitive, easy-to-follow Setup
Wizard.
- Supports WPA2, WPA, and WEP wireless security.
- Plug-and-Play compatibility with all Hawking Hi-Gain™
WiFi Range Extending Antennas.
- Supports Turbo Mode for wireless data speeds of up to 108
Mbps.
The HWUG1A Hi-Gain USB Wireless-G Adapter designed for Mac users
is available via retailers, direct marketers, ecommerce sites, and
distribution channels at an MSRP of $69 and an Estimated Street
Price of $59.99.
Link:
[HWUG1A] Wireless-G USB Adapter with Removable Antenna for Mac
Users
Microtek Offers $99 Scanner for Home and
Office
PR: Microtek has announced the availability of the
Microtek ScanMaker s450 with a suggested retail price of $99.
Compatible with both Windows and Macintosh computers, the Microtek
ScanMaker s450 has a new slim design and a broad set of features to
meet the diverse needs of a home office. With this scanner,
Microtek continues its tradition of providing outstanding scanning
solutions at an affordable price.
"The Microtek ScanMaker s450 is a versatile scanner designed for
the home office," said Parker Plaisted, manager of product
marketing for Microtek. "With both photo imaging and document
imaging features, this scanner fully supports the needs of a
digital lifestyle."
Photo Scanning Capabilities
The Microtek ScanMaker s450 makes duplicating and sharing photos
easy with several features specifically designed for high-quality
photo scanning. The built-in 35mm transparency adapter enables easy
scanning of positive and negative 35mm slides and filmstrips. And
Microtek's exclusive FilmView light table in the lid of the scanner
provides the uniform light needed to sort and select the film
images to scan. Scanning photo prints is even easier on the 8.5" x
11.7" scan bed, and old faded photos can be restored with
Microtek's ColoRescue™ automatic photo restoration feature in
the ScanWizard 5 scanning software. With an optical resolution of
4800 dpi and 48-bit color, the Microtek ScanMaker s450 captures the
full range of color and detail in film and photo prints.
Software Bundle
Included in the box with the ScanMaker s450 are Microtek
ScanWizard™ 5 with ColoRescue™ color restoration
technology, Adobe Photoshop Elements, ABBYY FineReader Sprint OCR,
Adobe Acrobat Reader, and InterVideo MediaOne Gallery.
Document Imaging Capabilities
With the included ABBYY FineReader Sprint OCR software, scanned
documents are converted to editable electronic files through
Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This feature greatly improves
office productivity by eliminating unnecessary typing to enter text
or numbers from a printed document into a computer. After OCR, the
electronic files require less storage space making them easier to
manage. The Microtek ScanWizard software is capable of saving
scanned images as Adobe PDF files that can be viewed with many
software applications, including Web browsers, which support the
PDF document format.
Zero Boundary Design
Microtek's Zero Boundary design extends the scan area closer to
the edge of the scanner to facilitate scanning bound pages in abook. With Zero Boundary, the scanner can see more of the page when
the spine of a book is resting on the edge of the scanner. The
result is a sharp, uniform scanned image across the entire
page.
Automated Functions
The most common scanning tasks are automated and assigned to
hardware buttons on the front of the scanner. These automated tasks
include: scan with default settings, scan and print, scan and
attach to Email, scan and OCR, and scan and save to PDF. An
additional button is available to assign to a custom function
chosen by the user.
The Microtek ScanMaker s450 is available now for a suggested
retail price of $99 through distribution, mail order, online
stores, specialty camera stores, and selected retail stores.
Link: Microtek
ScanMaker s450
iPod News
iCarta + Stereo Dock Holds iPod, Bathroom
Tissue
PR:
Stereo Dock for iPod with Bath Tissue Holder with Built-in
rechargeable battery.
Now you can enhance your experience anywhere with the built-in
rechargeable battery.
Features:
- 4 Integrated high performance moisture-free speakers deliver
exceptional clarity and high quality sound
- Charges your iPod while playing music
- Audio selector allows you to play iPod shuffle or other Audio
device
- Integrated Bath tissue holder that can be easily folded as a
stereo dock
- Requires AC Power (AC Adapter included)
- Easy to remove from Wall Mount
- Rechargeable battery provides up to 8 hours of playtime.
Specifications:
- Dimension (W x H x D): 8.25" x 3.68" x 7.12" / 210mm x 93mm x
181mm
- Power Requirements: 12V, 1.5A AC adapter
- Speakers:
- 2 x tweeters for highs
- 2 x woofers for lows
Price $129.99
Link: iCarta +
Stereo Dock for iPod® with Bath Tissue Holder with Built-in
rechargeable battery
Software
Pixelmator, World's First GPU-powered
Image Editor
PR: Founded by brothers Saulius and Aidas Dailide in
2007, the Pixelmator Team introduced Pixelmator, the world's first
GPU-powered image editing tool that provides everything needed to
create, edit, and enhance still images.
"Finally, an innovative, fast, and easy-to-use image editor for
Mac OS X that brings the power of today's expensive image
production tools to every Mac user at a very affordable price,"
said Saulius Dailide, Pixelmator Team. "We think all Mac
people-home users as well as professionals-will find Pixelmator
very useful and fun."
Built from the ground up on a combination of open source and Mac
OS X technologies, Pixelmator features powerful selection,
painting, retouching, navigation, and color correction tools, and
layers-based image editing, GPU-powered image processing, color
management, automation, and transparent HUD user interface for work
with images.
Mac iSight users will enjoy Pixelmator's New Layer from iSight
feature that allows taking a snapshot with Mac's built-in video
camera and adding the snapshot as a layer in composition. The Photo
Browser palette in Pixelmator offers quick access to iPhoto
Library, albums, Smart Albums, and pictures in user's Pictures
folder. Best of all, the user can just drag-and-drop any of those
images as layers in Pixelmator composition.
Another very important feature of Pixelmator is Automator
support. Very powerful Pixelmator actions in Automator allow the
user to quickly enhance, resize, or transform images, add any
special effects, and even export images to more than 100 different
file formats.
Pixelmator is based on Core Image and OpenGL technologies that
use Mac's video card for image processing. Core Image and OpenGL
utilize the graphics card for image processing operations, freeing
the CPU for other tasks. And if a high-performance card with
increased video memory (VRAM) is present, one will find real-time
responsiveness across a wide variety of Pixelmator operations,
including editing tools, color correction tools, filters, and more.
Pixelmator is lightening-fast on the latest PowerPC and all
Intel-based Macs.
Other notable features: Pixelmator supports more than 100
different file formats, including Photoshop images with layers, and
it comes with more than 16 color correction tools and 50 Core
Image-powered filters, transform tools, fill and stroke, QuickMask
mode, full-screen editing mode, Dashboard support, .mac support,
ColorSync support, Spotlight support, and much more.
Pricing & Availability
Pixelmator 1.0 will be available in late July for $59.
Link: Pixelmator
Smart Scroll X 2.4
PR: Smart Scroll X makes scrolling more convenient
Smart Scroll X brings new scrolling options and enhancements to
Mac OS X:
- Super Wheel - smoother, more comfortable scroll wheel
action.
- Grab Scroll gives you a Hand tool to easily move any window's
contents. It features coasting, just like on the iPhone.
- A "High Gear" for your scroll wheel, so you can have super-fast
scrolling when you need it.
- Universal Scroll Keys to scroll without having to reach for the
mouse. Scroll keys are the same in every application, giving you
fast & dependable scrolling right from the keyboard.
- Adds Scroll wheel support to FileMaker Pro 6 and 7 (as well as
live scrolling).
- Adds Live Scrolling and proportional thumbs to AppleWorks
6.
Grab Scroll
Grab scroll works with any mouse or pen or trackpad, etc. It is
essentially the same feature as the hand tool available in many
graphics programs, but now you can use it for scrolling in any
Cocoa application (support for Carbon applications is
forthcoming).
- With a single-button mouse, a scroll key lets you turn the
cursor into an open hand: hold the first key and tap the second
one. To scroll, click and drag with the mouse. Grab scroll mode
ends when you release the first key (the 2nd key is used to
activate grab scroll, and also to scroll faster when you
want).
- With a multiple-button mouse, you just press one of the buttons
(select one) to grab the page and slide it inside its window.
- With a graphics pen, you'll probably want to setup the extra
buttons so that the first one does a middle-click (so you can use
it to grab scroll) and the 2nd one does a right-click. Since the
pen lets you move the cursor farther with less effort and more
precision than a mouse, you can keep the normal speed at 1x for
maximum control and set the other speeds to some high value.
Two extra scrolling speeds are available, in addition to the
normal speed. One by holding a user-selectable key while dragging,
and the second by starting to drag near an edge of the area to
scroll.
Faster Scroll Wheel
You can make your scroll wheel faster when you hold down a
user-selectable key, up to 12 times faster. In addition, the speed
multiplier you choose is applied on top of the acceleration already
provided by the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane: this means
you keep the same level of control as you have now, but you can
scroll farther and without having to spin the wheel nearly as
much.
Universal Scroll Keys
A welcome alternative to always having to reach for the mouse,
Scroll Keys are a real time saver for anyone who types a lot!
With automatic scroll focusing, all you do is press a Scroll Key
and Smart Scroll X automatically selects and scrolls the correct
pane. Scroll Keys also feature their own adjustable scrolling
speed, with optional progressive acceleration, so that you can
easily scroll multiple pages simply by holding down a key.
Scroll Keys are the same across all applications: no need to
remember different keys for each app. Because of this, and because
Scroll Keys are conveniently located in the corner of the keyboard,
you can even scroll without having to look at the keys.
Scroll Keys are made possible by the new kind of keyboard
shortcut used in Smart Scroll X, which doesn't involve hitting
letter keys (hence avoiding conflicts with existing key
combinations). Instead, you hold down one of the four corner keys
and you scroll by hitting one of the others (some keyboards have
these keys on both sides, letting you scroll with either hand)
:
FileMaker Pro & AppleWorks enhancements
Smart Scroll X brings scroll wheel support and live scrolling to
FileMaker Pro 6 and 7. You can now use your scroll wheel mouse for
scrolling FileMaker Pro documents. Note: With some layouts you may
need to click one of the scroll bars once before the scroll wheel
works. A fix will be available in the next version of Smart Scroll
X.
AppleWorks 6 users get live scrolling and proportional thumbs,
as well as scroll wheel support.
Live scrolling updates the document while you drag the scroll
bar thumb. Proportional thumbs show how much of the document is
being displayed, and they make it easier to see which part you are
viewing. They are also easier to grab with the mouse.
Scroll Next
If a window has two or more scrollable panes, it is the one
under the mouse pointer that scrolls. Automatic scroll focusing
will select one of the panes for you when you press a Scroll Key to
start scrolling, but chances are it won't be able to guess the
correct pane every time. To let you scroll another pane without
reaching for the mouse, Smart Scroll X adds the Scroll Next
feature: hold down Control and hit Shift to select the next pane in
the window for scrolling. The mouse pointer jumps to the selected
pane too, providing visual feedback.
Scroll Next is quite useful in applications such as Mail for
example, where one often wants to alternatively scroll the list of
messages and the text of an email.
Note: In the current version of Smart Scroll X, scrolling in
Carbon applications only works if the mouse pointer is above the
pane to scroll. An upcoming version of Smart Scroll X will remove
this limitation, and also enable the Scroll Next feature for Carbon
applications.
Other Features of Smart Scroll X
Finally, Smart Scroll X lets you select a comfortable scrolling
speed for Scroll keys (including optional acceleration), and offers
a larger selection of scrollbar arrows positions (still useful from
time to time, although with Grab Scroll and Scroll Keys you won't
need to click on arrows very often anymore). You do not need to
restart applications for these changes to take effect.
New in version 2.4:
- Improved, smoother Super Wheel.
- Various other fixes and improvements.
New in version 2.0x:
- New Super Wheel feature.
- New Coasting feature for Grab Scroll.
- New Grab Scroll feature for Carbon applications.
- Universal binary.
- Includes Rosetta TuneUp, a utility for preventing
Rosetta-related crashes on Intel Macs.
- Streamlined preference pane.
- Various fixes and improvements.
System requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
System support: PPC/Intel
Smart Scroll X is shareware ($19 single user license)
Link: Smart Scroll
X
TotalView MemoryScape 2.0 for Mac OS X
Memory Debugging
PR: TotalView Technologies, provider of debugging and
analysis software solutions for the multicore age, has announced
the availability of MemoryScape 2.0, a new version of its powerful
memory debugger for Mac OS X applications. MemoryScape 2.0 extends
the product's capabilities to allow memory debugging of MPI and
remote applications, among other advanced features.
MemoryScape is an easy-to-use, graphical, interactive memory
debugger that helps developers identify, inspect and resolve
difficult memory problems in C, C++ and FORTRAN, including complex
multi-process and multithreaded programs for Mac OS X. Designed to
be an integrated part of the software development process,
MemoryScape allows developers to watch for memory leaks and monitor
memory usage while an application is running. It enables developers
to monitor heap memory, view memory usage, locate memory leaks,
track memory events and show corrupted memory. Developers can save
and compare memory states and compile sophisticated memory reports.
In addition, MemoryScape is nonintrusive, so developers can find
memory problems without recompiling.
"Memory bugs are one of the most frequent and challenging issues
that a developer has to deal with," said Addison Snell, vice
president and general manager of Tabor Research, a market
intelligence firm specializing in HPC. "There is a real need in the
high-performance computing market for simple, easy-to-use debugging
tools that can enable developers to quickly find and resolve
difficult memory problems."
MemoryScape 2.0 includes the following new features:
- MPI Application Memory Debugging
- MemoryScape works with MPICH 1 and 2 , LAM, Open MPI, MVAPICH,
Quadrics, MPT, Intel MPI, IBM POE, and Sun Cluster Tools
- Remote Application Memory Debugging
- Views into Heap Allocation
- Look at the data contained with a heap block
- Improved Navigation
- Switch from view to view within the same process
- Navigate across a browser like history list
- Time Stamping of Memory Events
- Filter Heap Data Based on Backtrace ID
- Wide Hardware and Operating System Support
- MemoryScape supports Apple OS X (Power and Intel). In addition,
it also supports Linux (Red Hat and SuSE varieties on x86, AMD64,
Intel 64-bit x86, ia64 and Power) and Unix (AIX, Solaris Sparc and
Solaris AMD64)
- Team Licensing
- Process token-based licensing
- Tokens can be aggregated to support rare large jobs
"We are dedicated to building on the success of the 1.0 version
to extend MemoryScape's debugging capabilities for Mac OS X,"
said Dick Andersen, vice president of sales and marketing at
TotalView Technologies. "These new features significantly enhance
MemoryScape's functionality and will enable developers to achieve
even greater productivity and quality improvements as they continue
to tackle the challenges of developing multicore, multithreaded
applications."
TotalView Technologies (formerly Etnus) is a provider of
debugging and analysis software solutions for the multicore age.
TotalView Technologies products enable software developers to
quickly, easily and effectively debug Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X
applications running on development machines with single,
dual-core, multicore, or multiple processors.
For more than 20 years, TotalView Technologies products have
been at work in research institutions, government laboratories, and
technical computing centers, as well as commercial enterprises in
the financial services, telecommunications, biotech, aerospace,
weather prediction, film special effects and animation, oil and gas
exploration, and computer-aided engineering markets. Recognized
worldwide as the gold standard for debugging in high-performance,
distributed or cluster computing environments, TotalView
Technologies' award-winning technology is used to solve the world's
toughest computing problems on many of the world's largest
supercomputers.
Link: TotalView
MemoryScape
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