Rain Recording has announced their first AMD processor-based audio workstation line, called Solstice. Solstice workstations are a new addition to Rain’s line of computers, which are built specifically for the needs of professional audio and video production. Powered by AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors, the Solstice 01 and 02 workstations can support demanding audiovisual [...]

  PCAudioLabs has released Impact, a new case option its line of studio/music computers. The case, a modular rack-mount design with acoustic foam insulation, was designed from the ground up taking into account how computers are used during the process of recording and mixing audio. Prices for configured Impact audio workstations start at US $2,675. Details at [...]

Apple today announced that people have downloaded more than 1 million copies of Safari for Windows in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday. Safari has generated a tremendous amount of interest, in part because of people questioning Apple’s speed claims for the browser and because of publicity [...]

Completely out of left field, Apple today introduced Safari 3 for Windows PCs and Macs. According to Apple, Safari is the fastest browser running on Windows, based on the industry standard iBench tests, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari joins [...]

Parallels today released Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac, a new version of its software that enables Mac users run Windows, Linux, and other operating systems at the same time as OS X on a single Mac desktop, without rebooting. For people that need access to both Mac and PC software, Parallels can eliminate the need [...]

Rain Recording have released the Nimbus Pro audio workstation line. The two versions, Q1 and Q2, utilize quad-core processor technology and new acoustical engineering to give the user power with near silent performance. Description: Nimbus Pro is built around Intel’s powerful Core2 Quad processor. Add to that up to 8GB of RAM, a Terabyte of [...]

The team at SWsoft has announced a new version of Parallels Desktop for Mac. Named Desktop for Mac 3.0. The forthcoming update,due in a few weeks,has over 50 new features….including Windows 3D graphic support (that’s Quake 4 running under vritual Windows XP on a Mac above). Parallels lets you run Windows apps on a Mac, [...]

Steve Jobs made some interesting comments in his discussion with Walter Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal’s D conference. He saves the best comment for last:

Microsoft has released a patch for Windows Vista to fix serious compatibility problems with iPods: Today we’re publishing at the Microsoft Download Center a recommended final compatibility update for users of Windows Vista and the Apple iPod; this same update will be automatically available via Windows Update on Tuesday 22 May.¬† The release is for [...]

Sales of Apple Macintosh computers grew 30% year-to-year in the first quarter of 2007, despite interest in Microsoft’s newly introduced Vista operation system. The growth in units sold for all computer vendors was 2.9%, making the growth in Mac sales 10 times the industry average. Microsoft’s official consumer launch of Vista in January had very [...]