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appleinsider.com - 1/16/2009
Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bit security
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In addition to the benefits detailed in previous articles in this series, the move to 64-bits in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will enhance Apple's efforts to secure its operating system.

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UPDATE: Apple Mac Mini Based on Nvidia Ion
tomshardware.com - 1/15/2009
UPDATE: Apple Mac Mini Based on Nvidia Ion
— tomshardware.com — A large portion of the Apple Mac community is waiting for Apple to refresh the Mac Mini line. We learned today that the next generation of Mac Mini computers will be based on Nvidia's Ion platform. An Nvidia partner confirmed to us that Apple was the ... (more) UPDATE: Apple Mac Mini Based on Nvidia Ion

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Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying 'Marble' User Interface?
macrumors.com - 1/14/2009
Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying 'Marble' User Interface?
— macrumors.com — Last year, Apple announced that they will be releasing the next major revision of Mac OS X (10.6 Snow Leopard) in 2009. The focus of Snow Leopard has been on performance and quality of the underlying codebase rather than introducing new end-user f... (more) Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying 'Marble' User Interface?

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Apple sales data: Half empty, half full
apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 1/20/2009
Apple sales data: Half empty, half full
— apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com — It continues to amaze me that analysts who specialize in Apple ( AAPL ) can look at the same data and come to such different conclusions. Case in point: Reports issued Tuesday morning by Bernstein Research’s Toni Sacconaghi and Piper ... (more) Apple sales data: Half empty, half full

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Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard security enhanced with 64-bit goodness
MacDailyNews — ... all of the frameworks, dylibs, and bundles needed by a process) in the same known location, making it relatively trivial to bypass the existing ASLR," McLean reports. "With the much larger address space available to 64-bit binaries, Snow Leopard's ASLR will make it possible to hide the location of loaded code like a needle in a haystack, thwarting the efforts of malicious attackers to maintain predictable targets for controlling the code and data loaded into memory." Full article here .

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