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what's up i'm brian Tong and welcome to the alpha x for all the good and bad inside the world of apple the ipad 2 is now on sale I can hear you all the way from here squealing like little girls in line I'm on a plane in you'll be getting yours before I do but we have plenty of news plus a detailed look at Mac OS 10 line for all of you and it's purdy now for I've had to users and wrapping their shiny new toy this is the thinnest tablet we've seen what is it the fastest Cena was able to run SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks comparing the ipad 2 to an original ipad running iOS 4.3 and found the newest iPad runs only one and a half times as fast and that many of the speed improvements for the original come with optimization from the latest iOS now we know dual-core processors will definitely be able to handle tasks more efficiently there's more to the products performance ingest raw power but original ipad owners won't have to feel like they're really left too far behind now there's also new evidence in iOS 4.3 that indicates the next-gen iphone 5 will be using a dual core processor and it will be the same a5 processor used in the ipad 2 now I'm glad someone else took the time to sort through all this code but the evidence was found in the kernel file for device codenamed n 94 AP which is believed to be the iphone 5 and they better bring back those multitasking gestures that were in the developers build because why take them away that's a bad apple ah alright but could this be what the iphone 5 might look like a report from a code talker as Chinese sources say Apple will be moving back to an all-aluminum instead of glass casing back because of scratching and cracking issues that we've talked about before now that the ipad 2 is here you guys can expect to see one of these new iphone 5 images each week until june or july all right enough about mobile devices so many of you write me and say show me more about the mac platform well you're gonna get it with an inside peek of line with our favorite hey guys Bryant on here with cnet.com and we're going to show you some of the newest bells and whistles in the developer version of Mac OS 10 line in action which is expected to come out sometime later this summer plus we're going to also show you a lot of hidden gems that you just haven't seen so let's start off with a few of the sexy ones first up is Launchpad which gives you instant access to your apps iOS style you can change through the launchpad view by clicking on the icon on the dock you can drag apps on top of each other to create folders just like an iOS and you can move apps around the way that you want now there's also a lot more multi-touch support in line so you can pinch with four fingers to bring up the launchpad display and then spread them out to return to the desktop now this can be very fun and also very time consuming Mission Control is another new feature that allows you to look at everything that is running on your Mac just swipe upwards with three or four fingers you can see your desktop all windows from your multiple apps group together full screen apps and spaces is basically like expose on steroids but is definitely one of my favorite features so far now we mentioned full screen apps and there are a few built into Mac os10 lion-like mail the calendar app and Safari you can swipe back to your desktop or to other full screen apps using three fingers but the full screen experience is a nice option and if you don't like it just drag your mouse to the top right hand corner and click now let's transition into some of the new features in the finder Finder windows are now rounded on every corner and you can resize the window by clicking and dragging on any of the four corners you also have a much smarter search in the finder we all know spotlight is very good for finding files or words in a file but if you know the type of file you're looking for type in a file name like aiff then you can select to isolate the search by that specific kind of file and then type in the name of the file you want to find another edition is viewing options in the finder now I can still use the icon list view columns view or cover flow of you but now I can view my files based on their type so if I select all of my files in the revamp source list I have the option to view them by kind and you'll see text image and movie files separated or by size as well now if you're in your applications you can view by application category and it breaks them down in the internet productivity and many other cheers also in the finder airdrop is a new feature in line that makes it easy to find computers on your local network and drag and drop files over to them you'll find this in the left-hand source list column now dashboard is also become its own space so if you swipe to the right with all three fingers all your widgets are there and you won't have a confusing backdrop of your computer all right let's jump into some specific apps now we've shown you multi-touch gestures already but Safari also gets a few new lion tricks if you tap the trackpad with two fingers you'll be able to zoom into specific text you can also pinch to zoom into an area of a web page and if you swipe back left or right with two fingers you'll see a new animation that reveals the previous webpages that you've looked at mail has also been completely revamped with a cleaner look and feel it now threads your email just like on iOS devices Apple calls it conversations and related emails show up on a streamlined feed on the right hand side you also can click on the number displayed to show the entire list of emails their dates and then directly jump into that email in the conversation now inside of an email data detectors allow you to preview links without leaving the app and you'll see new animations throughout the OS like this one when you reply to an email cool now in the email preferences if new view isn't really a cup of tea you have the option to go back to the classic male layout and another kind of fun feature is the ability to show a context photo in the message list touching I know and let's show off one more feature called versions when you're working on a document go to the file menu to save as version lion has the ability to autosave changes to your files so from then on you can click on the top right hand corner of your document and it will allow you to browse all the different versions of the file in a time machine like view then you can restore the file if there's a previous version that you wanted and voila it's like magic all right I know that was a lot of I canning information there are plenty of more things we could show you but that's an overview of some of the cool new features we can expect to see in Mac OS 10 line coming out this summer back to you tiger good oh you a lion alright let's check out some more stories shall we a finally might be taking Apple TV a little more seriously to get more content partners on board Apple TVs latest software update now supports dolby digital 5.1 surround sound for Netflix airplay support from third-party apps and best of all it gives you access to MLB TV and NBA League Pass no no it was so nasty but oh my goodness like if you were flying dragon and I was like a little boy I would totally take a ride to a magical place in the sky now more amazing flying mythical creatures conquered securities analysts say the white iphone 4 yes that thing will be in production this month and shipped by April Apple has made changes to the fill material to solve the lamination problem and I'll believe it when I see it now on to some quick bites safari five point O 4 was released by apple with some new improvements and security patches but tell that to French security researchers at the Cannes SEC West Conference who hacked a Mac in five seconds through security flaws in that Safari everything too bad egg ow now I movie in GarageBand for the ipad are available now for 499 a pop so you iPad users can get your creative juices flowing probably shouldn't say juices on the show unless it's apple juice mm and a much needed improvement comes to iOS 4.3 where users will have to re-enter their itunes password in order make in-app purchases even if they just entered it in to download the app now this will hopefully prevent terrible things from happening like you know an eight-year-old girl racking up 14 hundred dollars in purchases of Smurf berries for the Smurf Village game that that's the same game that my grown man younger brother plays during his free time alright that's going to do it for this week's show send your emails to the apple byte at cnet com i'm brian Tong thanks for watching and we'll see you guys next in front of the bite of the Apple you