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Intel's Dual-Core Yonah Roadmap

Laptop Logic has posted Intel’s roadmap for their forthcoming ‘Yonah’ processor. Yonah is the low-power CPU that is presumed to ship in the first Intel-based PowerBook in early 2006: Intel’s dual-core Pentium M successor “Yonah” will ship at 1.67GHz, 1.84GHz, and 2.17GHz when it debuts early next year in 2006. The dual-core Yonahs will take […]

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Slow Burn: Matshita UJ-835E DVD-R SuperDrive Only Burns at 2x

Superdrive.crc.id.au has launched a petition for Apple to address a performance issue with Apple’s DVD-R SuperDrive. The Matshita UJ-835e drive found in the following Macs appears to only burn at 2x. Read More…

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Freescale's 90nm PowerPC G4 Next for PowerBook?

Tom’s Hardware Guide: Freescale Semiconductor on Monday began showcasing the MPC7448, its latest high-performance PowerPC processor and the highly touted successor to the MPC7447A chip used in today’s Apple PowerBook G4 systems.

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Hardware PowerBook 15-Inch

More on the PPC 970 and the New PB15

MacWhispers has an interesting summary article on the PowerPC 970 processor culled from their OEM contacts in the Apple supply pipeline. An especially interesting reference was made to the PPC 970 PowerBook>: The plant contracted for assembly of the new 15.4-inch Powerbook has just now begun manufacturing production Powerbooks with the PPC 970 processor. Read […]

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Hardware PowerBook 15-Inch

Extreme PowerBook: Coffee Edition

TiBook takes hot JAVA and survives – coffee, that is – and son survives too!