Friday, 17 March 2006

Uni version of Mactracker released

Everyone has their indi e able, go-to utilities for the Mac, but for my money (that is, no money at all) you can't find a better reference tool for vintage Mac su ort than Ian Page's o e ively complete Mactracker. As noted previously on TUAW, it's great for figuring out RAM requirements and OS compatibility for anything A le has ever shi ed out the warehouse door in Cupertino.

One thing it ha 't been, up until now, is a Universal Binary. Since the REALBasic environment Ian uses started gracefully po ing out those two-faced a in early October, Mactracker has now caught up and the 4.1 release has all the Intel goodne one could wish.

Read on for additional new features, courtesy of the Mactracker blog...
- Adds latest A le hardware
- MacBook models have been moved into their own category
- Adds "My Mac models" list to "Notes" tab of Mac info windows
- Adds "My Mac models" category in the main window which shows models with entries in their "My Mac models" list
- Adds option to show a model's icon in the main window
- Adds information on whether a Power Mac G5 model uses a built-in or external AirPort ante a
- Adds information on the current iPod software version
- Adds Motion Se or as separate entry rather than as an addition to Hard Drive entry
- Adds ability to link to info windows using the "mactracker://" URI scheme

and other nice, homey touches. Go get your copy (free, Free, FREE) and remind yourself exactly what an SE/30 (pound for pound, my favorite all-in-one Mac) startup sounded like.

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