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Apple possibly preparing the Mac for gaming?

by Patrick Lutz on Apr 30, 2008 at 12:50 PM

Apple’s update of the iMac line on Tuesday is really beginning to show the direction that Apple is taking in its computers. Most significantly, Apple seems to be showing signs of preparing its Macs for the world of gaming. Some evidence of this is the new 3.06GHz processor option for… Continue Reading »

Apple to introduce quad-core MacBook Pro

by Nicholas Montgomery on Mar 18, 2008 at 04:20 PM

Even though we just recently saw a MacBook Pro update, we may be seeing a new quad-core MacBook Pro later in the year. The most recent update only increased the speed of the machine by 1 - 8%. Apple hasn’t commented on whether they will issue a processor update on… Continue Reading »

iPhone SDK goes PowerPC, jealous of Intel processors

by Alec Feld on Mar 14, 2008 at 06:13 AM

iPhone developers are signing up, in the masses at a rapid rate. The number simply keeps on growing. Though, how many potential iPhone developers are running on a PowerPC system? A lot, apparently, and Mike Rundle is one of those people. Still on his PowerPC G4, Mike was desperate to… Continue Reading »

iPhone eventually going Intel?

by Patrick Lutz on Mar 13, 2008 at 01:24 PM

Thanks to a leaked presentation slide belonging to Intel, there is much speculation on the rumor that the iPhone may be destined to switch from its current Samsung-based roots to Intel’s Atom architecture in the near future. However, since Intel’s Atom architecture is only in its first generation, the evidence… Continue Reading »

MacBook Air processor explained

by Michael Mistretta on Jan 20, 2008 at 12:59 PM

I’m sure that the people at the Macworld Keynote were so enamored by the thinness of the device that they didn’t think about how Apple crammed a full-fledged Core 2 Duo processor in there. Apparently, Apple and Intel partnered together specially to create a 65nm Merom chip that was planned… Continue Reading »

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