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- Inside Intel's Harpertown Processor
- Apple yesterday announced significant updates to their Mac Pro and Xserve lines featuring Intel's "Harpertown" processorâ€"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
- Apple release octo-core Mac Pro
- Although it was expected to take a bow at next weeks National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas NAB Apple took the wraps off the new 8-core Mac Pro a few days early.Appearing this morning on Apple.com was the refresh of the companys most powerful desktop class computer, the...
- Tags: MacPro, Hardware, Apple, Announcement
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Now, about that G5
- Now, about that G5Selective comparisonOK, I'll give you that Xeon Mac pros are not that big advantage to G5 PowerMacs today but with time Apple will optimize both OS X and it's software better for the x86 architechture and expecially x86-64 architechture, which will give gains compared to x86 by...
- Tags: Games, Network technology, Semiconductors, Desktops, Processors, Freescale, PA Semi, MAC Pro, chip, Apple Inc., game console chip
- Discussion threads 2006-08-29
- Dempsey, Woodcrest, and the G5 Mac
- Dempsey, Woodcrest, and the G5 MacReger, your bias is showing.You know, often you have a valid point, but it's hard to take seriously when you do things like saying "InHell". Just makes you seem like a ranting basher and little else.*I* would not have picked AMD.While Murph points out...
- Tags: Processors, Notebooks, Apple MacBook, MAC Pro, Apple Inc., Inhell, Woodcrest, hardware, chip, EPIC, Dell Computer Corp., performance
- Discussion threads 2006-08-28
- Apple releases Intel-based iBook successor
- Apple releases Intel-based iBook successorWeight is an issueI carry my 12" PowerBook with me in my purse equivalent. The two make or break issues for me are weight and ability to connect to projectors for talks with sufficient video RAM for eye catching special effects. I want a 10" MacBook...
- Tags: Processors, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, CPU, Intel Corp., processor, IBM PowerPC, OSX, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, virus, Intel Core Duo, Intel Pentium 4
- Discussion threads 2006-05-16
- MacBook Pro Photoshop benchmarks
- MacBook Pro Photoshop benchmarksTry running native apps...[i]"the Core Duo was 129% faster than the iMac G5/2.1 -- or 2.3 times faster -- just as Apple displayed on their iMac Graphics page. And for the record, we only had 128MB of VRAM on the Core Duo we borrowed"[/i]The above is based...
- Tags: Notebooks, Mac result, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, emulation, Adobe PhotoShop
- Discussion threads 2006-02-22
- Intel-based Macs fall short in benchmarks
- The problem isn't the raw speed of Apple's 2.0 Ghz Intel-based dual-core iMacs. According to CNET Anchordesk's Rafe Needleman, it's the inability of buyers to get at that performance through natively written applications. Wrote Needleman in a recent Anchordesk newsletter: Intel-powered iMac fails...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple iMac
- Blog posts 2006-01-23
- Apple iMac Core Duo (17-inch, 1.83GHz)
- Apple announced last June that it would start making Macs with Intel CPUs by June 2006. Just six months later, Apple lived up to its promise--well ahead of schedule--by unveiling at Macworld this week new iMacs and the new MacBook Pro laptop, each of which uses Intel's new Core Duo...
- Tags: Desktops, Processors, Apple iMac Core Duo, Apple Computer Inc., Apple iMac, IMaCS, new iMac, Apple iMac G5
- Product reviews 2006-01-11
- PowerPC, x86, and Apple pricing
- PowerPC, x86, and Apple pricingCheaper hardware makes no differenceYou are arguing pennies here. 6 grand for an Apple, 9 grand for a Sun, and 12 grand for an IBM, sounds like there's a price advantage, but add a 15k Websphere package with a 20k Oracle database and you quickly see...
- Tags: Processors, 64-bit, Network technology, hardware, Hardware cost, Apple Inc., Intel x86, IBM PowerPC, pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2005-10-25
- Apple annouces new PowerBooks, PowerMacs; Aperture
- Apple annouces new PowerBooks, PowerMacs; ApertureThe new Power Mac should tie people over and well through the Intel switch.That is some serious horsepower there, FOUR processing units and 16GBs of RAM. That's well enough power to justify the purchase of a PPC Mac even if the Intel Macs will...
- Tags: Desktops, POWERBOOKS, Apple Power Mac, Intel Corp., Apple Inc., Aperture
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- Apple unveils 'pro' photo software, Power Mac Quad
- Apple unveils 'pro' photo software, Power Mac QuadWowApple coming through with another genious idea. Stock: Bought in at $14 and i've been riding this bich ever since.strangeIt seems very strange for apple to release photo editing software when I have found that mostall MAC people prefer Adobe products to acomplish...
- Tags: Desktops, Digital photography, POWERBOOKS, Apple Inc., photograph, Apple Power Mac, Power Mac Quad, Apple Macintosh, photo software, Aperture, software
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive
- The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: TransitiveThat being said...I will be sure to buy the last generation of a a top of the PPC (G5) Power Mac. By the time I need another one (read 3-5 years) I think most applications will be recompiled with a "Universal Binary".My circa 2001...
- Tags: Processors, Desktops, CPU Test, Apple Inc., Memory Test, Think Secret, Apple Intel Macintosh, Intel Corp., ROSETTA
- Discussion threads 2005-06-08
- Cool infographic shows Apple's 'tipping point'
- Cool infographic shows Apple's 'tipping point'I'm getting one, my dad is and other people I know areI'm getting one of the Mini's. I at least know 3 other off the top of my head that are too. Also three other personal that have been interested in a mac and this...
- Tags: Desktops, Keyboards, Memory, Mini-ITX PC, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., keyboard, Detractors
- Discussion threads 2005-01-13
- Apple readying new Power Macs?
- Apple readying new Power Macs?YIPPIE!!!That would be great news! I want a new PowerMac NOW!!! Gotta get me a G5 Beast....Quad G5?I hope there is a Quad processor version. Those heatsinks are HUGE and remind me of the cooling used in my RS/6000.If this is the case...then...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows XP, Network technology, IBM Corp., WWDC, Apple Power Mac, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2004-06-04
- Virginia Tech racks up supercomputer upgrade
- Virginia Tech racks up supercomputer upgradeBah, Opteron is the way to go.AMD's Opteron is the way to go, not that pretend computer stuff...Notice this is NOT Windows.So why is nobody using Windows for clusters???expensive?Why didn't they wait for the G5 rack mounts anyway?Isn't this costly to do this? I'll...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Semiconductors, Desktops, public relations, Linus, chip, supercomputer, Apple Power Mac, AMD Opteron, computer, Virginia Tech
- Discussion threads 2004-01-27
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