The 2% figure is extrapolated from NPD's less direct assessment:

[A]pproximately 12 percent of all U.S. computer owning households own an Apple computer, up from 9 percent in 2008. While Apple ownership is growing, those households are decidedly in favor of mixed system environments. Of those 12 percent, nearly 85 percent also own a Windows-based PC.

At first glance, these stats almost seem wrong, but when you start think about it, they make sense: The survey polled "households," which, on account of grandma's Compaq or your roommate's gaming PC, clobbers the exclusivity figure. (I live in what any reasonable person would call a "Mac household"—three people who use Macs almost exclusively—but that little Acer netbook sitting on the table means we're not.)

Plus, PCs are cheap and they linger, and Macs, being pricier, tend to find their way into richer households, where more than one computer is almost a given. That, combined the fact that most Macs sold are laptops, and therefore a little more likely to be a supplemental computer, makes the 2% figure look a little less crazy, but still, 2%? Fanboys, you're slacking. [NPD via Macrumors]

Engadget says details are scant, but mention that AMD says that new DX11 features, such as the Compute Shader, will help improve Windows 7 performance, among other things. They expect their DirectX 11 products to be available in late 2009. [AMD via Engadget]

We know that Snow Leopard isn't going to be any kind of massive overhaul, but more of a refinement of the existing OS. It's aiming for stability, speed, and power management.

All the other screenshots that Sevenmac have just look to be proving that they actually have a working version of Snow Leopard. This one, though, is definitely weird. You have to restart the preference app in 32-bit mode in order to access the Network preference pane? Is it because this developer version only has the 32-bit version of the Network PP done? Is that going to be a recurring issue, that 64-bit apps that have to somehow work with 32-bit code needs to start/restart in compatibility mode? It would be super annoying if the OS doesn't handle it transparently, so this has us scratching our heads.

It is, though, probably a side-effect of Snow Leopard's tighter 64-bit compatibility. For more on that, and why 64-bit is going to make 10.6 cool, head over here to Giz Explains.

Sevenmac has a bunch of other pictures over here. [Sevenmac]

18. On information and belief, persons other than Psystar are involved in Psystar’s unlawful and improper activities described in this Amended Complaint. The true names or capacities, whether individual, corporate, or otherwise, of these persons are unknown to Apple. Consequently they are referred to herein as John Does 1 through 10 (collectively the “John Doe Defendants”). On information and belief, the John Doe Defendants are various individuals and/or corporations who have infringed Apple’s intellectual property rights, breached or induced the breach of Apple’s license agreements and violated state and common law unfair competition laws. Apple will seek leave to amend this complaint to show the unknown John Doe Defendants’ true names and capacities when they are ascertained.

In other words: There's somebody else behind Psystar. Someone who is worth prosecuting by Apple's mighty lawyers. Groklaw says that this is important because it may explain why Psystar has been ignoring Apple and continue to boldly sell their crappy PCs running Hackintosh, a hacked Mac OS X version that runs in generic Intel hardware.

Apple is also asking for a preliminary injunction against all Psystar activities related to Mac OS X. Groklaw speculates that the people and corporations behind Psystar may be important and that, when Apple finally identifies them, they will obliterate them. [Groklaw via MacRumors]

Yup, it's true; Adobe not only knew about the security flaw that Shane Macaulay used to hack Vista, they even had a patched prepared. Only thing is, they hadn't got round to releasing it. In fact, the patch was scheduled for release in the next Flash Player update later in the month.

Thankfully, Adobe were not in the dark about the security risk, however, if they were in the know, don't you guys think they have a responsibility to release the fix ASAP? Putting our systems at unnecessary risk due to our choice to support third party software just doesn't seem fair. Further, asking for system stability and security to be made a priority should be a given at all times, or so we reckon. Worse still, the defect may have cost Vista the title of impenetrable OS, and that's gonna hurt the MS fanboys dearly. After all, imagine if OS X had been the only hacked operating system; we think said fanboys may have had something to brag about, or at least a reason to punch Mr Smug Mac in his face. [Ars Technica]

Top of the list were fixes to Apple's Common UNIX printing system (CUPS), in both its network and AirPort implementations. Fixes are also in the offing for mail flags and fonts in the Mail application and also the way Mail interacts with iCal.

According to Apple Insider, the company also wants those developers to carefully test 37 of the components of OS X:

Among them were Data Detectors, the Mac OS X Dock, the Finder, grammar checking, iCal, iChat, Mail, Parental Controls, Quick Look, Rosetta, Safari, Time Machine, and Leopard's 802.11 AirPort implementation (which has troubled some MacBook users.)

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"A game system includes a housing to be held by a player. The housing incorporates an XY-axis acceleration sensor to detect an acceleration in an X-axis and Y-axis direction and a Z-axis contact switch to detect an acceleration in a Z-axis direction. These sensor and switch detect at least one of an amount (e.g. tilt amount, movement amount, impact amount or the like) and a direction (e.g. tilt direction, movement direction, impact direction or the like) of a change applied to the housing. A simulation program provides simulation such that a state of a game space is changed related to at least one of the amount and direction of the change applied to the housing."

We're not sure why you'd buy 6 now that Christmas season is over, but these would probably make the BEST VALENTINES DAY GIFT EVER.

And if you believed that, we wish you good luck getting inside that box ever again. – Jason Chen

Product Page [My OpenX]

Expect all the usual DVI and D-Sub connectors money can buy, which you can do sometime this month. Could make a good gift idea for the resident PC gamer in your life, provided it lives up to the hype. – Nicholas Deleon

Press Release [BenQ]

• I don't think settings are persistent
• More settings, e.g. trigger deadzone, button remap
• Force feedback may elongate effects
• Force feedback (DirectInput-style interface) emulator may need more work
• Preference pane currently only tests rumble motors, by creating a force feedback interface but then just using the Escape functionality
• Driver needs to handle more possible errors.

Mac OS X Driver [Tattlebogle via Digg]