Week in Apple: antitrust drama, performance vs. stability

Does the long holiday weekend have you itching to catch up on hot Apple stories from the last week? You’re in luck, as we’re wrapping up the Ars Design Awards for Mac OS X, while covering more rumors about the new iPhone, and some legal drama over Apple allegedly abusing its dominant music market position. Read on for the roundup:

Reader’s Choice poll for 2010 Ars Design Awards: Mac OS X: We have compiled a final list of Mac OS X nominees for the 2010 Ars Design Awards in all five categories. You can also cast your vote for the next week for a special Reader’s Choice award.

Mac lags Windows in gaming performance, excels at stability: Mac OS X is still behind Windows when it comes to raw gaming graphics performance. Still, Valve founder Gabe Newell discovered that when running comparable code, the Mac is five times more stable than Windows.

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