Macs Take Reliability, Support Prize
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Apple's computers are the most reliable and its support the most dependable of the five top vendors, says a national chain of PC service shops.
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And re-introduces the single-CPU Power Mac G5
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Mac OS X âLeopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots â and most of them are bright ones,â declares David Pogue (New York Times). He points, for example, to two âroutine-changingâ features. Time Machine, which offers âthe shortest setup of any backup system in history.â And Quick Look, which lets you âview the contents of a documentâs icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it.â Pogue says âitâs fantastic.â
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InfoWorld - SAN FRANCISCO - BakBone Software will showcase this week at Macworld Expo new storage backup systems designed for small- and medium-sized businesses that rely on Mac OS X, using its NetVault software, first announced for the Mac this past summer.
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Next week's MacWorld Conference and Expo may be the place where iPhones, iPods and all the latest Mac hardware are announced, but it's also the annual curtain-raiser for the Mac software industry. Here's what to expect from Apple, Microsoft and the other big names.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12  /PRNewswire/ -- Macworld, the world's foremost Mac authority in print and on the Web, announced the winners of the 22nd annual Editors' Choice Awards.
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Apple touts eleven specific features it says will make Leopard secure.
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Compatible with both Macs and PCs, they cost from $149 will be available beginning in June.
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Several security features in the Mac's new OS are incomplete, say researchers.
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MacBook and MacBook Pro users are reporting generally good results from a new patch designed to fix the keyboard-freeze problem noted since the release of Leopard.
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&#147;The Macintosh, with its OS X operating system, is rock solid,&#148; writes Walt Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal. &#147;It is elegant, and &#151; when you do a feature-by-feature price comparison with Windows competitors &#151; it&#146;s surprisingly affordable.&#148; [Dec 09]
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These are the major Leopard stories as reported by Macworld, PCWorld and wire services
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One year after launching a controversial Macintosh hacking contest, the promoters of the CanSecWest security research conference are thinking about giving hackers another shot at cracking the Mac. Only this time, they&#39;re looking to broaden the field.Last year, show organizers invited attendees to hack into a Macintosh laptop with the successful hacker winning the computer and a cash prize. But this year, they&#39;re talking about giving attendees three targets to choose from. &quot;We&#39;re thinking of having a contest where we have Vista and OS X and Linux ... and see which one goes first,&quot; said Dragos Ruiu, the principal organizer of CanSecWest.Last year, security researcher Dino Dai Zovi spent a sleepless night hacking his Mac in order to take the prize at the show&#39;s first PWN to OWN contest.&#160;Dai Zovi found a QuickTime bug&#160;that allowed him to run unauthorized software on the Mac once the computer&#39;s browser was directed to a specially crafted Web page.Dai Zovi split the contest prize with a friend at the show, Shane Macaulay, who helped him pull off his attack. Macaulay got to keep the Macbook Pro while Dai Zovi pocketed the $10,000 put up by 3Com&#39;s Tipping Point division in exchange for technical details on the bug.It turned out that the QuickTime bug affected the Windows operating system too, but Ruiu said that Dai Zovi&#39;s hack helped change the way the industry thinks about the Mac OS, which has a reputation for being far more secure than Windows. &quot;We were trying to point out that there was a security issue with Mac stuff here, and everybody was trying to play ostrich.&quot;Ruiu and Dai Zovi say that last year&#39;s contest helped kick off a flurry of Mac-related security research, but according to TippingPoint Manager of Security Response Terri Forslof, it also illustrated a security industry truism: &quot;Given enough time and motivation, everything can be broken,&quot; she said. &quot;When TippingPoint agreed to purchase whatever vulnerability was used to win the contest for $10,000, it added an appropriate level of motivation. That&#39;s how it works.&quot;Shortly after last year&#39;s contest, Gartner published a research paper warning that such challenges are &quot;risky endeavors&quot; that could put sensitive vulnerability information out in the public domain.That hasn&#39;t stopped CanSecWest from pressing forward with this year&#39;s event.Ruiu isn&#39;t certain that he&#39;ll run the three-way hacking contest this year. That&#39;s because he also has a grander, top-secret hacking contest idea that may or may not pan out, he said.Either way, he promised &quot;an interesting spectacle.&quot;
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MacOS 10.5 offers easy file recovery, effective parental controls, and a host of clever, smaller features.
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It's possible that in the coming months that security-minded computer professionals will finally have a conclusive answer as to whether low malware attack rates for the Mac are due to the platform's low rate of adoption. Some experts believe that as adoption rates rise, so will attacks.
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Apple touts 11 specific features it says will make Leopard secure.
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The launch of Apple Inc's   latest operating system, Leopard, was its best ever, a  research group said on Monday.