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Intel to Release Improved Quad-Core Xeon Chips

Intel has announced that they will officially begin selling more energy-efficient quad-core Xeon processors as of Monday, according to representatives. The new processors, dubbed the Xeon L5320 and L5310, will consume 12.5 watts of electricity, about a 60% reduction over the company’s current 80-watt and 120-watt quad-core products. Both chips will feature eight megabytes of […]

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Seagate ships 3 Gbps Momentus 7200.2 notebook HDD

Everyone is working themselves into a lather over the rash of new and fast notebook hard drives recently announced. Personally, I’ll stick with the more spacious (200GB), albeit slower (4200RPM) Toshiba MK2035GSS in my MacBook Pro. While we were all prepared to wait for Fujitsu’s May release of its MHW2 BJ series, Seagate decided to […]

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AirPort Extreme Update 2007-002 Workarounds/Fixes Posted

Significant updates always bring mixed results and in the case of the AirPort Extreme Update 2007-002, some readers over at MacFixIt have reported bette performance via the update while others have reported loss to their wireless routers after applying the update. A full write up offers advice, fixes and suggestions as to how to remove […]

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Guides to Slimming Down iPhoto Posted

As great as iPhoto may be in the eyes of its user base, there’s always a glut of space that gets consumed with its pictures and data. And as the treasured memories consume additional gigabytes of space (iPhoto saving backups whenever edits and saves are made), The Unofficial Apple Weblog has linked to a cool […]

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CrossOver 6.0.1 Update Released

CrossOver, the Windows virtualization software for Intel-based Macs by CodeWeavers, has been updated to version 6.0.1. The new version, a 28.7 megabyte download (courtesy of VersionTracker), adds the following fixes and improvements over the recently released 6.0 version: Click the jump for the full story…