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Apple's x86 Move: reality and the party line

Apple's x86 Move: reality and the party lineVaporhardwareJust where is this 3.2 Ghz PPC? M$ is famous for pre-announcing stuff that is ready to "freeze" the marketplace - is IBM following suit?By all accounts the Cell processor SHOULD be a barn burner, but as evidenced by Sun and HP before...

Tags: Processors, Game players, Apple OS X, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, console, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., PowerPC G5 successor, IBM PowerPC G5, Intel x86, Microsoft Xbox

Discussion threads 2005-08-22

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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

The megahertz myth and the UltraSPARC T1

Until quite recently Intel's basic sales pitch on its PC CPUs focused on the notion that higher megahertz rates automatically produce improved throughput and most of the PC market accepted that as reasonable. It wasn't, of course; but Apple has lost significant market share over this bit of misrepresentation and...

Tags: Intel Corp., Intel Xeon

Blog posts 2006-02-07

Linux and MacOS X on X360?

The fastest Macintosh in the world right now should be a Microsoft X360 developer unit running a three-way, 3.2Ghz, PowerG5 successor on a 22.5GB/S bus. The only problem with it, of course, is that Microsoft's nexus DRM implementation prevents it from running MacOS X. That's fixable, although probably not...

Tags: Apple Mac OS, nexus

Blog posts 2005-08-24

Apple's x86 Move: reality and the party line

An August 19th, 2005 Computerworld newsletter had an article by Michael de Agonia which caught my eye. Here's a bit from what I thought was an excellent expression of the official Apple line on this: While the timing of IBM's Power news raised some eyebrows,...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., IBM Corp., Agonia

Blog posts 2005-08-22