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. […]
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More insight on the potential battery run time of the MacBook Pro can be gleaned by looking at the specs of other notebooks using the Intel Core Duo processor. According to PowerPage reader Brad Laue, the Acer TravelMate 8200 with similar specifications (Intel Core Duo 2.0GHz CPU, Radeon X1600, 1GB DDR2 667, 160GB SATA 5400RPM, […]
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Apple's Double Standard on Benchmarking
When Apple tried to prove that G5 was better than Intel, they used a generic non-optimised GCC compiler for the Intel machine. This time, they used an optimised Intel compiler to prove that Intel is better than the G5. How quickly we forget! Read the full article at ExtremeTech.com. (Thanks Digg).
MacRumors recently posted this entry about Intel’s impending announcement of their new low-power portable CPU (code-named “Yonah”) that will be the heart of the 2006 iBooks and PowerBooks: CoolTechZone claims to have insider knowledge of Intel’s official launch date of the newest processor from Intel — codenamed Yonah. Intel’s Yonah is a dual-core chip based […]
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Intel Starts an 'Apple Group'
An article from eWEEK Intel Starts an ‘Apple Group’ indicates that Intel is taking this Apple thing seriously. This is probably the best indicator yet that Apple will introduce Intel-driven Macs sooner rather than later: Industry analysts and others have confirmed that Intel Corp. has formed an internal “Apple group.” This group, formed in the […]