Week in Apple: mastering music for iTunes, Mountain Lion on old Macs, and more

In the last week, our top Apple news included a feature on remastering music for iTunes, as well as coverage on why Mountain Lion will only work with some 64-bit Macs. We also discussed some recent iPad rumors, an allegedly “leaked” Microsoft Office iPad app, a new variant on the Flashback Mac trojan, Messages for the Mac, and more! Read on for the weekly roundup: Mastered for iTunes: how audio …

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What's keeping Mountain Lion off of some 64-bit Macs? Ars investigates

The system requirements for the OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) developer preview released last week indicated that quite a few “modern,” 64-bit capable Macs would not be able to upgrade to the new OS . How Apple determined the cutoff still remains fuzzy, but according to our research, we believe the issue is related to the graphics capabilities of those machines. Apple has suggested to Ars that the …

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