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Now, about that G5

Last week's discussion of Apple's deteriorating competitive position with respect to the high end desktop got misunderstood by a lot of readers who thought I was comparing the G5 to the new "woodcrest" Xeons. I wasn't, but that kind of thing is always fun, so lets start by looking at...

Tags: Processors, XBench CPU, Intel Xeon, CPU

Blog posts 2006-08-29

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Apricorn's 4 TB hard card: PCI RAID array pt. 1

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so the timing was good. You may recall the...

Tags: Card, Bandwidth, Disk, Apricorn, Video, PCI Express, Video Capture Card, MB/sec, PeDA, WD, Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro Video Capture Card, RAID, Corporate Communications, Storage, PCI, Hardware, Marketing, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Xbench: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)

I've completed some initial Benchmarks of the Psystar Open Computer. The results below are from Xbench 1.3 running on the following systems: Psystar Open Computer, 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 10.5.2 Mac mini, 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 10.5.2 ...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, RAM, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, Notebooks, Memory, Components, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Applying the Midas touch to Mactel

Applying the Midas touch to MactelFreescale had their chanceFreescale was around and in-contention when Apple made their latest deal with the devil. Why didn't Apple jump on it in the first place? The roots of this decision go back to the begining, when Apple, IBM and Motorolla came together to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Processors, Apple Inc., PPC, Freescale, Motorolla, Daystar Technology today

Discussion threads 2006-02-16

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