iTunes 8 and the ridiculous hardware requirements
I knew Apple hated you if your hardware was old, but I didn’t think iTunes hated you too! Apparently, if you want to watch HD TV shows using iTunes you are going to need at least a 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo processor. Now I don’t know about you, but 2 of my 3 Macs (purchased within the last 2 years) do not meet this requirement. And to be perfectly honest, I’m a little offended! One of the two is a 2-year old MacBook PRO. The Applecare hasn’t even expired on that bad boy and already I need to upgrade if I want to watch HD on it. Wow.
I plan on doing some further testing of this to verify, hopefully the dire warning is all smoke and mirrors. If there is a true limit I may need to go ape on somebody’s face.
UPDATE: News of iTunes 8 ridiculous hardware requirements were greatly exaggerated. I tested HD TV shows on a 1.83ghz Core 2 Duo Mac mini and a 2.0ghz Core Duo MacBook Pro and in both cases the episode played without issues.
iPhone 3G unboxing pictures, now with more indecisiveness
Ameoma.com has posted what seems to be the first set of unboxing pictures featuring TWO iPhones 3G of differing color. Impressive, somebody is doing very well for themselves! And since I am still unsure with what color I am going to go (you don’t know either!) I thought it would be good to point this out. Oh, and props to Ameo for taking some cool photos - I need to find out what his(her) setup is.
Update: It looks like Ameo is having some trouble so I am going to help out and mirror the files here. Check them out after the break.
