Sonnet Technologies has announced a processor upgrade service for PowerBook G4 550 MHz and 667 MHz (Titanium) models. The upgrade features a Freescale 7457 G4 processor running at 1.2 GHz with 512K L2 cache (twice the original processor’s) running at full processor speed. Until now, all of Sonnet’s processor upgrades have been standalone products created […]
MCE Technologies, LLC (MCE) is now selling a 160GB 5400 RPM hard drive for the PowerBook, iBook and Mac mini. The MCE MobileStor 160GB/5400RPM drive (US$399) is the highest capacity 2.5-inch drive available for these machines and includes an 8MB cache buffer. The drive’s engineers have developed a method of standing data bits on end […]
From a mailing list posting by Jason Watkins, SAS Computing: Here are some facts about “Core Duo” that may shed some light on the questions of battery consumption in the new MacBook Pro laptops. “Yonah,” the code-name that Core Duo previously went under, features 151 million transistors on a single die, dual core chip. Each […]
Craig Wood conducted a performance analysis of the pre-production MacBook Pro while at Expo and posted his findings. On the last day of Macworld 2006 I revisited the prototype MacBooks and performed a series of tests to measure the new system’s performance. I conducted four media-related tests on the new MacBook Pro and previous G4/G5 […]
The Spunker has a blog entry calling out Apple for their latest television commerical. Apparently the new TV ad is almost an exact copy of a music video by The Postal Service for their song “Such Great Heights.” Check out this video of the Apple television commercial side-by-side with The Postal Service video. (Thanks J. […]