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EA Spore Creature Creator spreads across the internet

spore 20080617 215301 EA Spore Creature Creator spreads across the internetIt was kind of fun to monitor Twitter today with all the buzz about the Spore Creature Creator Trial but not as much fun as it is playing! The Spore Creature Creator is a preview of the full Spore game that is expected to release on September 7. With the Creature Creator, you to create Spore creatures that you will later be able to use in the game. You can create multiple creatures or sample those created by the Spore design team. You can ever share your creatures and create little videos of them doing their thing.

The Spore Creature Creator has some stiff requirements: it requires Leopard and an Intel Mac, minimum ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100.

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Apple’s Mac Mini is NOT dead after all

MacMini 20070807 191825 Apples Mac Mini is NOT dead after allApple upgraded its line of “BYOKDM” Macs–the Mac minis–with 2 new models.

At the USD$599 price point, you’ll get a 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 1GB of RAM (upgradable to 2GB for an additional USD$150) and an 80GB hard drive (upgradable to 160GB for an additional USD$150).

At the higher end, for USD$799, you’ll get a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 1GB of RAM (upgradable to 2GB for an additional USD$150) and an 120GB hard drive (upgradable to 160GB for an additional USD$75).

The rumors around the Mac web had the odds stacked against the Mac mini even remaining in Apple’s product matrix, much less being upgraded, so this announcement comes as good news to lovers of the littlest Mac.

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Is there something special about 8-core Mac Pro memory and hard drives?

8corememory 20070411 205833 Is there something special about 8 core Mac Pro memory and hard drives?I’m no expert on this stuff; I’m just an average Joe who makes his living off his Mac. But, I have always thought that if you could match any hard drive or stick of RAM with the type that was used in your Mac, that you could be pretty sure that they would be interchangeable. In other words, a 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive by any other name will still work just fine.

Trust Apple’s Knowledge Base to set me straight. According to this article, posted on April 4th of this year, certain memory and drives for quad-core and 8-core Mac Pros with seemingly the same specifications, but different part numbers, as other memory and drives available from Apple are not compatible with the 8-core Mac Pros but are only for use with quad-core Macs.

What is up with that?

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