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MacBook Pro arriving fashionably late to the Merom party

Almost every PC notebook vendor and their brother is hawking Core 2 Duo powered notebooks these days and Mac-heads are starting to get a little miffed. Understandably so. Didn't Apple jumped into bed with Intel because they had a great chip pipeline and they could deliver the silicon -...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple MacBook, Intel Core 2 Duo

Blog posts 2006-09-20

WWDC: Apple completes transition to Intel

Today during his keynote address at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference WWDC CEO Steve Jobs completed the company's transition to Intel by announcing two new pieces of hardware: Mac Pro - Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors - 4MB shared L2 cache per processor - 1.33GHz dual...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., DIMM ECC

Blog posts 2006-08-07

Will Apple dump ATI for NVIDIA?

AMD yesterday announced that they plan to acquire Canadian video chip maker ATI for US$5.4 billion. The deal needs to be approved by stockholders and regulatory agencies. Arch-rival Intel announced that they won't be renewing ATI's chipset bus license as a result of the deal.The move leaves Apple in a...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., graphics

Blog posts 2006-07-25

Coming soon to a Mac near you: Woodcrest, Conroe and Merom

Intel used an event in San Francisco yesterday to launch their new server chip code-named "Woodcrest." (The official name "Dual Core Xeon" is not nearly as cool, but I digress.) According to Intel the new chips are optimized for low power consumption and provide more performance in key benchmarks -...

Tags: Intel Corp., chip

Blog posts 2006-06-27

Apple releases Intel-based iBook successor (Update2)

As expected, Apple this morning announced the high anticipated successor to the iBook notebook computer. The new MacBook (no "Pro") is available for ordering today from the Apple online store and it comes in polycarbonate black or white, just like the iPod.Three configurations are available:13-inch: White- 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo-...

Tags: x 800 resolution, 5400-RPM, SODIMM

Blog posts 2006-05-16

Tablet envy

In case you missed it, there's a whole lot going on with tablet development these days - and it's not in the Mac camp.The Wintel community is abuzz about Intel's Ultra Mobile PC UMPC platform and a new product from Microsoft called Origami due to launch on March 9. The...

Tags: Origami, tablet, ultramobile PC

Blog posts 2006-03-08

Intel outlook not so rosey for 2006

Paul Murphy's has an excellent blog entry on ZDNet yesterday that throws a cold bucket of water on the irrational optimism that Apple will launch a raft of successful Intel-based Macs in 2006. Quite a number of pundits have gone out and predicted the appearance of...

Tags: Intel Corp., Intel Based

Blog posts 2005-12-06

Mac mini to go Intel in January

ThinkSecret is reporting that Apple will announce an Intel-based Mac mini in January — presumably at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. According to the story, which I confirmed with another source, the new Mac mini will pack a bunch of new features not found in the original.In addition to being...

Tags: Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh

Blog posts 2005-11-29

Mac OS X on x86 reviewed

Almost as soon as Apple released their OS X for Intel developer kit, enterprising hackers undid the security scheme that was supposed to prevent it from being installed on any old generic beige box. In addition to being able to install OS X on a cheap PC from Wal-Mart, they've...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X

Blog posts 2005-11-10

Additional Resources

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ante, at least in getting attention for new mobile applications. According to a Forbes.com...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-24

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Apple must be feeling pretty flattered now that both Canonical the company behind Ubuntu and Microsoft have expressed a desire to be more like Apple. Start your photocopiers! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Ubuntu, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photocopier, Apple Mac OS, Copiers, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week

During Microsoft's annual Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, the company will finally show off semi-publicly the spherical Surface computer that has been rumored for the past few months. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Multi-touch, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics

In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space

Microsoft has long prided itself on its open partner ecosystem and cited it as a key differentiator from Apple, which provides all of the hardware and software for its products. But that equation may be set to change, based on a somewhat cryptic comment from CEO Steve Ballmer. by...

Tags: Phone, PC, Steve Ballmer, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship

NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...

Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Apple looking to hire iPhone hacker

Apple is in the market for someone capable of hacking into the iPhone. According to this job listing, the company is looking for an iPhone Security Engineer capable of, among other things, developing "proof of concept" attacks on the device's current security mechanisms. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Hacker, Security Mechanism, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Cash for the merchandise, cash for the breakthrough

How can open source achieve the breakthroughs it needs and beat Apple at its own game?What about cash and fabulous prizes? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Apple iPhone, LiMo Foundation, Symbian Inc., Linux, Open Source, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Apple's coming notebook transition

Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...

Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable

In a scathing indictment of Apple's MobileMe service, the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg calls the service "far too flawed to be reliable." The US$99 per year service – which is supposed to push contacts, calendars and email from iPhone to computer – has been hobbling along...

Tags: Apple Inc., MobileMe, E-mail, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little

Vista adoption in the enterprise is mired in the single digits, but is an option for companies that have Windows releases before XP. Nineteen percent of enterprise users use Firefox. And the Mac OS is making some headway in the enterprise, but Apple lacks a coherent strategy to pitch business...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Enterprise, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24