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Rumor: Next-gen iPhone to use Qualcomm MDM9635M LTE chip, will boast potential download speeds up to 300 Mbps

It came from the rumor mill and it’s pretty interesting. An anonymous source leaked that Apple will be using a new LTE chip manufactured by Qualcomm in the next-gen iPhone. The MDM9635M chip, also known as the ‘9X35′ Gobi modem platform, promises significant performance improvements over the “9X25″ chip found inside of the current iPhone […]

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Hardware iMac News

Teardown of low-end 21.5-inch iMac finds RAM soldered to the motherboard

You won’t be able to upgrade the RAM on the new, low-end 21.5-inch iMac. Per MacRumors, the cool cats at Other World Computing have performed a full teardown and discovered that the 8 GB of RAM that the iMac ships with is permanently soldered to the motherboard.

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New Mac Pro has socketed Intel CPU

Now that people have started to get their hands on the new Mac Pro, naturally the first thing they do is to tear it apart to see what makes it tick. Since the announcement of the Mac Pros specs and hardware, potential buyers have been lamenting the lack of user-upgradeable components in the sleek, black […]

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Intel announces Thunderbolt 2 protocol, looks toward 2013 launch

This could be really, really sexy. Per AppleInsider, Intel on Tuesday finally put a name to its next-generation Thunderbolt protocol as “Thunderbolt 2,” with the newly dubbed standard doubling the throughput of its predecessor while remaining backward compatible. Previously referred to by its codename “Falcon Ridge,” Thunderbolt 2 will boast a bandwidth of 20Gbps, which […]

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Unreleased Intel Ivy Bridge benchmarked on modified version of Mac OS X 10.7.3, promising results reported

The Ivy Bridge architecture is on its way, which will probably be a cool thing. Per the tonymac86 Blog, a modified version of OS X 10.7.3 has been tested with an unreleased Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge chip, giving a first indication of how Apple’s next-generation Macs will perform. An anonymous tipster provided screenshots of […]