Dell launches multicolor Inspiron desktops

The rainbow of new Dell Inspirons we wrote about at the end of March goes on sale today at Dell's Web site. The minitower Inspiron 537 and the slim tower Inspiron 537s each starts at US$299, and you can choose from eight colors for the front panels.
You can check out Dell's own product page, but the options for each system are basically identical. Intel CPUs range from single-core Celerons to Core 2 Quads, with upgrades to Blu-ray, low-level ATI graphics, wireless networking, and hard drives up to 750GB. Those all drive the price up, of course. You also have to pay an extra US$20 for any color other than basic black.
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Apple releases OS X 10.5.7

Apple on Tuesday released OS X 10.5.7, an update to its Leopard operating system that is intended to fix a variety of bugs and security issues, as well as provide expanded hardware support.

Several security issues are addressed in the update, including issues related to Apache Web server, PHP, CoreGraphics, and Safari. The update patches three separate vulnerabilities in Apple Type Services, QuickDraw Manager, and WebKit, all of which could allow for arbitrary code execution.
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Seagate FreeAgent Theater arrives in Singapore

Storage maker Seagate, the latest manufacturer to jump on the media streaming bandwagon, is bringing its FreeAgent Theater HD media player to Asia, starting with Singapore. Like the Western Digital WD TV media player launched here in late 2008, the Seagate product offers easy playback of multimedia content off external storage devices onto your TV, sans a PC.

First showcased in January at the Las Vegas-based Consumer Electronics Show, the FreeAgent Theater HD media player targets users not familiar with technology. Using it requires only a simple hookup to the TV with the supplied cables, and then connecting a hard drive to the player. An onscreen interface and bundled remote control let you find the desired music, video or audio files to play.

So what's different about the Seagate offering from the WD TV?
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Upcoming Mac OS X gets a little friendlier with Windows

Unless you fork out for third-party virtualization software like Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion, you'll quickly find a disadvantages of using the free Mac OS X Boot Camp. And that is that the Windows partition is unable to access Mac files, and vice versa. This is due to the fact that both operating systems use different file formats that are incompatible with each other.

Though the upcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard will not break down this wall, at the very least, it will create a window between the OS barrier. By integrating Windows HFS+ drivers, Snow Leopard allows the user to boot into Windows and still read files on the Mac OS X partition. Previously, you would have required paid third-party software such as Mediafour MacDrive to accomplish the same task. Unfortunately, it is unclear if Snow Leopard will allow writing and editing of documents directly on the Mac OS X partition.

Via MacRumors

Microsoft confirms Windows 7 coming this year

Microsoft confirmed that it is planning to release Windows 7 this year, in time for the holiday shopping season.

"We are tracking well to a Windows 7 holiday," Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Veghte said in an interview with ZDNET. Veghte plans to make a similar statement in a speech at Microsoft's TechEd event in Los Angeles. As recently as January, Veghte was saying publicly that such a release was not a sure thing.

At the event, Microsoft is also announcing it plans to wrap up work on an update to its server operating system--Windows Server 2008 R2--at the same time it finishes Windows 7 on the desktop side. Microsoft issued a release candidate for the server operating system last month, alongside the near-final version of Windows 7.
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