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ARM lays out specs for 64-bit Cortex-A50 mobile processors, sets release date for 2014

No matter how nifty your devices are, it’s the next-gen stuff that smacks of awesome promises. Per AppleInsider, processor company ARM on Tuesday unveiled new its next-generation of high-performance, power sipping 64-bit chips — CPUs that could power future devices from companies like Apple as soon as 2014. ARM’s new Cortex-A50 processor series is based […]

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OS X 10.8 may not run on earlier 64-bit Macs

The good news: OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) has gone gold master and will probably arrive this month. The bad news: It might not run on your older 64-bit Intel-based Mac. According to Ars Technica, Apple has updated the upgrade page of its website, tweaking which models will be supported by the latest big cat. […]

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VirtualBox updated to 4.1.18

VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.1.18. The new version, a 92.7 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: – VMM: fixed VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164 and others). – VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit […]

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MacBook Pro News

64-bit MacBook Pro notebooks may take up to 16GB of RAM

In a somewhat surprising discovery, the cool cats at CNET, have discovered that despite the specified amount of RAM your MacBook Pro can max out at, the machine will still recognize and use more RAM if it’s available. With that in mind, the article recommends using the System Profile utility. It gets interesting from there: […]

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Apple releases iTunes 10.4 update

Among everything that was released and updated Wednesday, Apple also released iTunes 10.4, the latest version of its multimedia/jukebox application for Mac OS X. The new version, a 74 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – iTunes 10.4 is now designed for OS X Lion. You can now use iTunes with OS X […]