wade walker : flash developer

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Well, I had a great time. To start off the morning before the store even opened, the particular Apple store I went to had been passing out bottled water for people. After a couple of hours, they started passing out coupons for either a free breakfast sandwich or free lunch sandwich with the purchase of a drink and fries. Then they did that exact same thing again around lunch time so people could go get lunch. Another hour or so passed and Apple actually sent some employees to get one of Chick-fil-A’s giant tray of chicken nuggets and another tray of brownies and they started going down the line so everyone could get some food and snacks to go with their water.

I had to wait a long time and barely made it to work, but overall I had a good experience when I got my iPhone 3G. That just shows how Apple likes to take care of its customers and it is something I won’t forget.

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That is one of the things that bothers me about Tiger, is that going from one application to the next, the interface is different on each. By that I mean that some applications have the brushed metal interface, while others have something closer to what is featured in Leopard.

One thing I hope is still being worked on is the Finder. At this point in time, I don’t believe there is any reason that the Finder shouldn’t have Tabs like Safari, so you don’t have to have multiple Finder windows open. I am someone that finds myself often having multiple Finder windows open, whether it be to move/copy files or just browsing multiple folders at once. So having Tabs inside the Finder would be awesome.

There are a lot of little details that I noticed(I will only cover one). One thing that I liked is located under the Finder Preferences. When you are under the Sidebar tab to select what items are displayed in the Finder sidebar, the “Computer” icon now has an icon that represents what kind of Mac you have. In other words, if you have a G5 or Mac Pro, it has a Mac Tower icon. If you have a laptop, it has a laptop icon.

I did notice a few glitches with this build, but it is far better then the previous builds I have tested and I can’t wait for the final release that is going to be released in October.

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The processor also saw an update to the Santa Rosa series of the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. One thing that I have been waiting a long time for is an update to the video which did happen with this update. The new video card is a brand new release of the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M series. What I am especially excited about is that this is a DirectX 10 compatible video card. Taking a guess from memory, it also appears that the hard drives received a boost in memory from 120 Gigs standard to 160 Gigs, which is great for someone like me who utilizes BootCamp so I can have a Windows operating system of a decent partition size.

Well, thats all I got for now about the update. Now just to find a way to start saving money.

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This is where Elgato’s new Turbo.264 device comes in. It is the same size as a USB pen drive and even plugs into your computer through USB. The Turbo.264 device’s soul purpose is to render and encode videos using Apple’s H.264 codec and to take the stress off your processor. Elgato is listing the device as being able to encode videos up to 4 times faster on an Intel-based Mac, and is even higher than that on older PowerPC based Mac’s.

The device is only $100 and for that amount of money, this hardware video encoder is well worth it and I will definitely be picking up this new toy.

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