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The Apple Core: NVIDIA to acquire PortalPlayer for US$357M

PortalPlayerIf you’ve ever scrolled deep into the Legal menu on an iPod you’ve probably seen the logo pictured at right. PortalPlayer is most popular for providing the audio chips for the Apple iPod.

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Marketing Macs in a PC World

An accidental discovery was key to Apple’s recovery but it wasn’t the only way the new Apple revitalized its Mac platform. Another contributing factor involved learning how to effectively sell its products.

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The Apple Core: How-to: Take your MacBook Pro’s temperature

If you’ve used an Apple notebook for any extended length of time you probably have an opinion on its operating temperature. But how do you quantify the temperature of an Apple’s notebook? Let’s take a look at different ways to measure the temperature in the MacBook Pro.

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Benchmarks: Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro

Looking at individual tests, some results—specifically ones that taxed either the hard drive or the graphics card—showed smaller performance gains, while other more CPU-intensive tasks saw more substantial improvements, thanks to the Core 2 Duo’s improved processing efficiency. Compressor 2.3, for example, ran 30 percent faster on the new 2.33GHz system than on the older […]

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smcFanControl 1.21a Supports Core 2 Duo; Adds Temp

smcFanControl 1.21a includes support for the 15,4″ MBP with Core2Duo processor. Note: The upcoming release of smcFanControl (menu-item) is still in the works. It’s delayed a few days, cause I just moved from Germany to Switzerland. eidac >> smcFanControl 1.21a