Popular Mechanics lifts the lid on how the film industry is transforming silver screen classics to high definition formats such as Blu-Ray.

Interestingly there doesn't seem to be a one-size fits all to this transformation with painstaking work being carried out on a frame-by-frame basis on some films to not only recreate the director's vison of the film but also to clean up and perfect mistakes from the original. A really informative read about the things you shouldn't notice when watching a film at 1080p.

Last week we heard that Hitachi will team up with Intel to produce solid state drives for the enterprise market. After this we couldn't wait to find out more, so we got in touch with Nick Kyriacou, EMEA Director of Hitachi GST to answer some questions.

The article addresses some concerns with SSD drives in general and we look at other possibilities from the Hitachi stable. It seems SSDs have finally been accepted by a major hard drive manufacturer.

That's the conclusion reached by The Inquirer who have performed a much more thorough investigation on this than many of their other rumours. Earlier this year NVIDIA and the majority of large system builders were hit hard when a large number of their notebook graphics chips were found to be faulty due to soldering material. According to The Inquirer, the latest chips found in the Macbook Pros still use this solder (containing lead).

Their recommendation? Steer clear of the new 15" Macbook Pros and from this writer's experience you should listen to that. Our model which was due for review died last week (merely a month after delivery) and is now off to get a new "logic board" (motherboard to us normal folks) fitted. Of course, our experience is from a miniscule sample size, however if the investigations of The Inquirer prove to be wholly correct then Apple and NVIDIA both have to expect some heat for utilising defective components again, so soon after a costly recall.

The recently launched MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks have helped Apple increase their sales however one of the more widely reported faults has been with the touchpad which now acts as a huge button too. The problem? Clicks weren't being registered and the touchpad would freeze.

Thankfully the fix seems to be a software one rather than something fundamentally wrong with the hardware. The patch released two days ago and available through the Software Update application appears to have fixed the issues. In our testing here it certainly provides a marked improvement and is well worth hitting the software update button for.

Our full review of the MacBook Pro will be up within the next week.