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Maxtor today also announced that the company plans to ship an ATA hard drive in excess of 137GB by the end of the year. At present, the ATA interface tops out at 137GB, but the technology that Maxtor has partnered with Compaq, Microsoft, VIA, and others to create will pave the way for drives that “can access more than 100,000 times more data” than the current standard.

The Register reports that Radiohead, the hugely popular UK band, revealed in a CultureLab interview that the group uses Apple PowerBooks for its music. “I’ve got like an Atari ST and we’ve all got PowerBooks which we run our favourite thing called Logic on because it never crashes unlike Cubase.”

Apple has integrated its software downloads into its Knowledge Base support area. The new layout groups updates by current products for easier access, while updates for older products must be located manually through a folder hierarchy. The new format also does a way with the Recent Changes page that listed the last 50 updates that Apple had posted.

Analysts at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter believe that Apple will reach its revenue target for the second half of the fiscal year, reports Macworld UK. The brokerage firm believes that Apple will be able to meet its US$1.6 billion estimate for the third quarter, which closes on June 30. Apple will report its third quarter earnings on July 17, one day before Steve Jobs will deliver the opening keynote to kick off Macworld Expo.

Sonnet recently updated its Mac OS X Compatibility List, notes MacUser UK, which details which of the company’s upgrades are compatible with OS X and what they require for compatibility.