The Bad News

Tuesday, December 3, 2002

Apple 22 inch Cinema Display touch-enabled.
Troll Touch, provider of touchscreen systems worldwide, announces the immediate availability of its latest touch screen innovation, an internally mounted touchscreen for the Apple 22 inch Cinema Display.
Featuring USB connectivity, ultra-high touchscreen resolution and superior registration properties, the product is available as a component set to be integrated into customer owned displays or the entire touch-enabled package can be purchased from Troll Touch.
Adding touch-enabling to the Cinema 22 Display expands that products desirability and functionality making it the perfect multimedia and interactive presentation tool. Kiosks, POS systems and development platforms would all benefit from the addition of the company's touchscreen technology.
Troll Touch has been producing custom touchscreen solutions for Apple display products for over ten years. Previous offerings from the company include the first internally integrated touchscreen system for the Apple iMac. All current as well as past iMac models are supported. The company also provides an internally mounted touchscreen for the Apple iBook laptop.

See also: Monitor Video Kiosk

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Mac OS Rumors
Next up on our agenda is much discussion of forthcoming Digital Lifestyle devices including Apple's efforts to introduce DLD's for Pictures and Movies -- a Photo Frame smart display in the 10-12 inch range, and a DVD-R and QuickTime-based DLD designed to work with TVs and HDTVs based around the iPod hardware platform....stay tuned!
Firewire 2 (800Mbps) has been the focus of much development effort recently at Apple; several new Macs and at least one new Digital Lifestyle device will feature 800Mbps FW amongst the Macworld January releases, and we could see as many as two or three more by April.
10.3 will also include some significant new kernel and other low-level optimizations, some of which will be very important for Cocoa application performance. Also due in the Panther timeframe is an Apple-maintained database of hardware drivers for USB and Firewire devices - this could co-incide with USB2 and Gigawire support in new PowerMacs early next year, and would allow OS X to use a Software Update-style driver finder to automatically download and load kernel any required software -- often without a reboot.
At an unspecified time in the not-so-distant future, Apple will be rearranging the way several of the various Frameworks that make up most of OS X and provide services to application-level processes to improve performance, particularly on multi-processor systems and for clustering of multiple computers -- preferably second-generation Xserve systems with the RAID rack and forthcoming dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

See also: FireWire QuickTime Video Network

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Totoku 9 megapixel CCL901
Torque Systems offers the full line of Totoku high performance graphics displays, including the 9 megapixel CCL901, the ProCalix Color Reference CRT and the ME series of monochrome LCDs designed for digital fine arts photography. The available ProCalibrator software and sensor kit takes advantage of Totoku LCD's unique high-bit color lookup tables to deliver maximum color resolution and accuracy independent of the video card.

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