12-core Mac Pros with 27-inch Cinema Display may soon

In spite of the hype and the upcoming release of the Apple iPad has not forgotten the rest of his hardware. In addition to a revised version of iPhone will be during the year including a new display, new Mac Pros and a new MacBook Pro expected.

Already in January, Steve Jobs also announced that aside from iPhone and iPad exciting new releases. Now summarize the details of the new Apple hardware. I’ll begin a new 27-inch display that will replace the existing 30-inch Cinema Display. The new display technology is equal to that of the 27-inch iMac provides the same resolution as the current 30-inch display that is offered unchanged since about three years.

Source: apple.com
The LED display on the iMac but with quality problems previously made headlines. These problems, among other things, an unsightly banding, are now seemingly completely overcome, so that the same technique can be used in the 27-inch Cinema Display. Major updates are available before even with the Mac Pros. Apple has waited here the release of the new 32nm Xeon processors from Intel architecture. The recently announced processors generation predecessors, promises to up to 60 percent better performance without increasing power consumption.

At the lower end of the product range in the Mac Pros, however, could also come i7-980x Extreme Edition processors. Also for the MacBook Pros with the available updates are expected in January Core i3, i5 and i7 processors. NVIDIA Optimus platform could here also provide the expected MacBook Akkuaudauer. Rumors here to complain, but licensing problems with the integrated use of NVIDIA controllers that stood in the way of a recent implementation.

iTunes is close to the 10,000 million downloads

The Apple Music Store is about to pass a new brand and to celebrate giving away $ 10,000 to the person that gets that number.

Apple has released a few days ago on the website of your local music store, iTunes, a countdown that refers to song downloads that are conducting their customers at the time.

The number is approximately 10,000million, a new brand that will be overcome very quickly. According to information from the company, to celebrate giving away a gift card worth $ 10,000 to the person who is lucky enough to coincide with that round figure.

On the other hand, Apple has released its particular ranking of the 25 most downloaded songs of all time.

In general, this is an initiative that the company really like the block, especially to keep their shops special relevance in iTunes (music) and App Store (applications for iPhone, iPod Touch and the future IPAD).

Also coinciding with the 20th anniversary ofPhotoshop, has launched an application that simulates the 1.0 version of this tool for editing and photo retouching for iPhone, although at present is restricted to a limited number of users.

Also, Apple has decided to withdraw from the App Store applications with eroticcontent. It has done its creators advising of the withdrawal. All these applications were approved at the time by the company, so it is something that developers do not understand. The reason is none other than the repeated complaints of consumers and the future launch of the iPad, which could have enough impact on education, where many children would have direct access to this content explicit.