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Transitive, the company which supplies Apple’s Rosetta translation engine for OS X on Intel, has announced it will undertake work with Intel to migrate legacy RISC code to Intel’s Itanium 2 and Xeon processors. More …

Mactel-Linux has announced the achievement of a major milestone in their quest to port the open-source OS to Mactel hardware—Linux boots on the 17″ iMac Core Duo.

“Using elilo and a modified Linux kernel, we can boot from a USB hard disk on the 17-inch iMac Core Duo. We are using the hacked vesafb driver to inherit the bootloader’s framebuffer, keyboard and a USB network card work. Gentoo runs and can compile the Linux kernel.”

Apple posted a special Web page that provides support for the new iMac Core Duo. Apple is calling this first MacIntel to ship, the iMac (Early 2006).

Mice, keyboards from Logitech, Kensington or M$$$$ will have problems working, as there no drivers for the Intel Macs.

SteerMouse (shareware), supports USB and Bluetooth mice. It will even work with mice designed for Windows PCs. It is also available as a Universal Binary that runs on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, and allows several areas of customization not available with Apple’s drivers, including double-clicks, modifier clicks, application switching, assignment of shortcut keys, ’snap to’ cursor movement, which moves the cursor to target (such as an OK button), and more.

This article contains a list of all printer drivers and PPD files included with Mac OS X 10.4.4 for Intel-based Macs. Some printer files included with Mac OS X 10.4.4 for Intel-based Macs might not be included with previous Mac OS X versions, and vice-versa.

Do you have a compatible printer?

There are no open source gimp drivers, as yet. I use Gimp-Print HP Laserjet 4 series driver for my HP 4 printer (works marvelously).

The Japanese magazine MacFan reports that the Intel Core Duo iMac’s CPU is socketed. O’Grady’s PowerPage writes: “This means that it isn’t soldered to the logic board like most Macintosh CPUs have been for years and can be upgraded. In an article in the Japanese magazine MacFan a reader claims to have upgraded the processor in a 17-inch Intel iMac from 1.83GHz to 2.0GHz without issue.”

AppleInsider sources say inventory is limited. A usual sign of an announcement soon More…

Apple has announced a new logo program that developers can use to identify universal binary programs that contain both PowerPC and Intel code.

According to AppleInsider, sales of Intel Macs are reported to be better than Apple expected. .Macs sales are up and the credit goes to .iLife and especially iWeb. Apple has relented about charging for the Universal Binary version of Aperture.. Also, Thunderbird will acquire the ability to import Address Book data. More …

MacWorld magazine recently reported that the new Apple iMac Core Duo doesn’t live up to Apple’s speed claims.

MacSpeedZone’s tests show that the new iMac Core Duo does live up to the hype. Not only did the new iMac wipe the floor with the old model in their tests, but using MacWorld’s own test methodology would allow MacSpeedZone to conclude that the new Intel iMac is almost as fast as a PowerMac Quad G5.