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- What's next for the MacBook Air?
- Brook Crothers at CNet's nanotech blog has posted an interesting piece about what upgrade options might be coming for the MacBook Air. Drives Apple dropped the price of the 64GB Solid State Disk SSD option by US$400 on Thursday but Crothers points to higher capacity, 128GB...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Battery, Disk, Engineering, Hardware, Intel Corp., jason D. O'Grady, MBA, MLC, Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, Solid State Disk, Processor
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Rumor Mill: iSight HD, new Intel chips, iPod touch 2G, patents (updated)
- Happy Friday! Let's take a look at some of the latest Apple rumors floating around. A MacRumors reader found references to an unreleased High Definition USB iSight in Apple's QuickTime system files. The line says "Next Generation USB iSight" in QuickTime's localizable.strings and also carries a reference...
- Tags: 2G, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iSight, Camera, Chip, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Music, Hardware, Intel Corp., jason D. O'Grady, MacBlogz, Network Technology, Networking, Patent, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Mac OS 10.6 to be Intel only?
- There's a rumor circulating that Apple may either demo or release to developers a build of Mac OS 10.6 that's fully 64-bit clean and Intel-only. "10.6 will not include any new significant features from 10.5; instead, Apple is focusing solely on "stability and security" writes TUAW. 10.6...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Intel Corp., Desktops, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Rumor: Tablet Mac coming this fall (updated 5x)
- I don't often publish first hand rumors, but today I've something special for you, if you like tablets that is. A little birdy tells me that Apple will announce a 12 or 13-inch tablet in the fall of this year. Most likely in the September...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Tablets, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Notebooks, Apple Macintosh, Intel Atom, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Rumor Mill: Atom smashed? MacBooks, location, Time Machine (updated)
- It's Friday, which means that it's time to look at the latest raft of rumors about our favorite Cupertino company. Atom-powered mini-tablet This one was pretty hot. ZDNet.de reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel's...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Minitablet PC, Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Want Intel's newest chip? Buy an iMac
- In a comment left yesterday by Davewrite under my story about the new, speedier iMacs noted that the Intel Core Duo Extreme processor found in the new iMacs is not yet available in any PC. In fact, the chip isn't officially rolled out by Intel yet. According...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Intel Corp., Chip, Apple Inc., Processors, Apple iMac, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Components, Hardware, Montevina, Networking
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Rumor Mill: What you'll be coveting from Apple next
- Hey there, it's Jake here again. Jason stepped away from his MacBook Air and left it logged into his ZDNet blogging account (Wheeee!) so I figured that I'd pen another quick roundup of the latest rumors on the Apple front– before he gets back. ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, 3G, Apple iMac, Intel Corp., Apple Inc., Desktops, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Mini, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- MacBook Pro Penryn update imminent (updated)
- In reading the Apple teas leaves it appears that a MacBook Pro update is imminent. A source tells me that it's within-the-next-30-days imminent. Let's look at a few of the other hints: Apple last updated the MacBook Pro to Santa Rosa on 05 June...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Penryn, Penryn Chip
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Inside Intel's Penryn Processor
- On Monday Intel announced the first mobile quad-core processor called Penryn. The new silicon is the cousin to the Penryn desktop processor, the Core 2 Extreme QX9650, announced on 12 November 2007. The next generation transistors, used in the new Penryn processors (Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Transistor, Intel Corp., Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Processors, Silicon, Components, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Penryn Desktop Processor
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Inside Intel's Harpertown Processor
- Apple yesterday announced significant updates to their Mac Pro and Xserve lines featuring Intel's "Harpertown" processor–but what's in a name? Intel's quad-core Xeon 5400-series "Harpertown" processors run at up to 3.2GHz and are based on the new 45-nm Intel Core microarchitecture. The new chips are known for...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Intel Corp., Apple Macintosh, Intel Xeon, Processors, Apple Inc., Components, Hardware, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Inside the new MBP: Intel's Santa Rosa processor
- Arguably the most significant upgrade in the the new MacBook Pros announced yesterday is the inclusion of the new Mobile 965 chipset (a.k.a. "Santa Rosa") from Intel. The new chip whose marketing name is Centrino Pro has a number of features over the previous silicon: Improved graphics Better wireless with support for...
- Tags: Hardware, Intel, MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Apple announces new MacBook Pros
- As expected, Apple today announced new MacBook Pros – less than a week before the start of their Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC which kicks off in San Francisco next week. The new MacBook Pros feature faster 2.2 and 2.4GHz processors presumably based on Intel's new Santa Rosa chip architecture. The...
- Tags: MacBook Pro, Hardware, Announcement
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Intel Santa Rosa chips destined for MacBooks
- Its inevitable. Now that Apples hitched its wagon to the Intel star, the processor road map is pretty much set in stone. The switch to Intel was exciting news for Apple portable users because theyre known for their powerful mobile chips. In fact, it was the lack of fast and...
- Tags: Intel, Hardware, MacBook, MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Intel releases NAND flash "drives"
- Intel today jumped into the NAND flash drive market with the announcement of their Z-U130 solid state "drives" SSDs. The new Z-U130 drives are based on NAND flash memory and feature USB 2.0/1.1 interfaces. Intel's Z-drives are different than SanDisk's 32GB 1.8-inch SSD that I blogged...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Solid State Disk, Intel Corp., Hard Drive, NAND Flash, NAND, Z-U130
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- 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
- Merom to replace Yonah in MacBook Pro
- Remember Yonah? It's the code name for the Intel Core Duo chip found in the iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac mini, and it will soon play second fiddle to a faster cool chip arriving from Intel: Merom.Merom is "a mobility-optimized, dual-core processor based on the new, state of the...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, MacBook PROS, chip
- Blog posts 2006-07-24
- 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
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