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Hardware iPhone Rumor

Apple component hints towards full gigabyte of addressable RAM on iPhone 5

If you’ve been hankering for an iPhone with a full gigabyte of RAM onboard, your wish might be about to come true. Per AnandTech, slides of Apple’s A6 chip presented at the company’s iPhone 5 debut event on Wednesday reveal the processor likely holds 1GB of RAM, double the amount found in the legacy iPhone […]

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VirtualBox updated to 4.1.22

VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.1.22. The new version, a 96.6 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: – VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts, […]

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Hardware iPhone Rumor

Rumor: Apple drops Samsung as NAND, DRAM supplier for initial batch of next-gen iPhone handsets

It’s hard to say what the specific reason behind this is, but there are definitely a few guesses. Per Reuters, Industry sources claim Apple has cut orders for Samsung memory modules to be used in its upcoming next-generation iPhone, saying the first batch of handsets widely expected to launch on Sept. 21 following a Sept. […]

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Hardware MacBook Pro News

iFixit posts full teardown of mid-2012 Retina Display MacBook Pro, finds significant changes in architecture

Well…that was speedy. Late Tuesday night, the cool cats at iFixit posted a full teardown of the new Retina Display MacBook Pro. The company apparently had little trouble maneuvering past Appleā€™s proprietary pentalobe screws and by Step 6 in the process, the inside of the unit was unveiled for all to see online. Among the […]

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Apple TV Hardware News Processors

Third-generation Apple TV A5 processor studied, second core found

This is sort of interesting. An investigation into the custom A5 chip used in Apple TV has found that the new Application Processor uses both a smaller, more efficient 32nm die process and actually incorporates two cores, one of which is simply turned off. Per Chipworks, the custom A5 “APL2498” used in the third generation, […]