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Episode 7: 7: ThunderCats
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk a bit more about connectors before moving on to the big Apple news: new MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt i/o and the first developer preview release of Mac OS X Lion.
Links for this episode:
- Apple - Thunderbolt: Next-generation high-speed I/O technology.
- Apple - Mac OS X Lion
- Apple - The new MacBook Pro
- What you need to know about Thunderbolt - Macworld
- Bi-directional USB plug concept
- The Loudness War - Wikipedia
- A video explaining the Loudness War - YouTube
- HDtracks - high-quality digital music store, no DRM
- Apple supposedly in talks to increase the quality of the audio in the iTunes music store
- Thunderbolt security concerns - The Register
- Leaked screenshots from the Lion developer preview - MacStories
- More leaked Lion screenshots from AppleInsider
- What we know about Mac OS X Lion - Ars Technica
- Intel HD Graphics 3000 performance tests - AnandTech
- Intel's Thunderbolt technology brief (PDF)
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