Makeover for Apple's Mighty Mouse?

Is it time for Apple's Mighty Mouse to get a tune-up?

That's the question many people on the Internet are asking as MacBlogz has published images of what it expects Apple to do with the multibutton mouse. Extrapolating from Apple's patents on multitouch, MacBlogz's prototype features a sleek profile and aluminum body.

The report notes that a 2007 patent application "arbitrary shaped grippable member" that would utilize positioning and multitouch detection to interpret a user's movement. Basically, it appears the button would be replaced by a multitouch trackpad. "In essence, it would act as one seamless area from which a user could scroll and pan by dragging a finger over the device's surface," the report says.
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(Almost) indestructible storage of the future

With no moving parts, one of the key advantages of solid-state drives have been the fact that they are hardier than their mechanical cousins. But research is underway which will make current storage devices seem positively fragile.

Created from the same element as diamond, graphene was demonstrated by researchers to not only store more information for the same given area, but is able to withstand temperatures of up to 200 degrees celsius. The only problem is that graphene has low data access speeds, but scientists are confident that this issue can be overcome in the future. So if data archiving gets you hot under the collar, then keep an eye out for these (almost) indestructible storage devices.

Via ComputerWorld

Apple offers advice on 10.5.6 upgrade problems

Apple has acknowledged an issue encountered by some Leopard users trying to install the company's latest update released Monday.

In a support document posted to its site, Apple described an issue in which a Mac would hang on a "Configuring installation" window when trying to install Mac OS X 10.5.6. That was apparently the result of an incomplete update getting seeded into the Software Update process, and Mac OS X will freak out if it tries to install a partially downloaded update.
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Did the Eee PC matter more than the iPhone?

Business magazine Forbes Asia recently hailed the ASUS Eee PC as the product of the year and in its article, outlined the high demand for the sub-US$500 notebook since its launch. It ushered in a whole new category of portable computers which we now term as Netbooks and, now, almost every other manufacturer from Acer to Toshiba has their own version.

That made me wonder: Would the Eee PC surpass the mighty iPhone 3G if there was a way to measure how influential they have been? Obviously, the two products sit in two different categories so it's hard to have a definitive benchmark. But click on this link to see them duke it out in a Google fight. It's completely unscientific, I know, but it's still fun to watch.

What about you? Which of the two products do you think was more influential in 2008? Sound out what you think here.

Atom Netbooks to get an Nvidia boost

The Atom-based Netbooks may be cheap, but they contain enough processing power to deal with most productivity tasks like Internet surfing, working with office documents or even a little movie viewing. However, Nvidia wants to extend the functionality of these low-cost laptops to include graphic-intensive tasks such as high-definition movie viewing and even gaming with its latest Ion platform.

Nvidia's plan is for Netbooks to do away with the anemic Intel Graphics Media Accelerator found in current models and include its GeForce 9400 integrated video card instead. This graphics platform was first unleashed at the launch of the new MacBooks and claims to offer up to 10 times the rendering performance compared with its competitors.

However, this is not the first Nvidia/Atom hybrid in the market.
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