Look likes Intel has set its eyes on the laptop arena! And who said only Apple produces stylish laptops. Codenamed the Intel Mobile Metro Notebook, this prototype laptop is co-designed by Intel and Ziba Design. With a mere 0.7-inch thickness, it is crowned the thinnest laptop ever. Weighing in at just 2.25 pounds and sporting Intel [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 9, 2007
While I doubt the two extra cores will come into play for quite some time, it’s not stopping Intel from officially launching its new Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 today. The Q6600 is not Intel’s very first quad-core processor, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 is. But, it is the first non-server, non-enthusiast quad-core processor. Specifications: 65nm 8M L2 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 9, 2006
The MacBook Pro has gotten its Intel Core 2 Duo upgrade, and now it is MacBook’s turn. Here are the specifications of the new Core 2 Duo model vs the previous Core Duo model: In short, new C2D processors, double the memory for 2.0GHz models, higher-capacity hard drives and dual-layer SuperDrives. And Apple claims a 25% [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 7, 2006
While we mere mortals are all happy with our dual-core processors and all excited about the upcoming quad-core processors, several researchers from Tokyo University are secretly snickering at us. But of course, they have all the right to do so since they invented a 512-core processor known as the Grape DR chip. To be accurate, the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 9, 2006
The highly anticipated Mac Pro is finally announced during WWDC, with the main highlight being the quad Xeon 64-bit processors. “Apple has successfully completed the transition to using Intel processors in just seven months—210 days to be exact,†said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “And what better product to complete it with than the new Mac Pro, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 15, 2006
Great news for those of you who are currently having plans to upgrade your desktop computers. Intel announced five new Core 2 Duo processors today, codenamed Conroe (4MB L2 cache) and Allendale (2MB L2 cache). And from bit-tech.net’s preview copies’ benchmark results, it seems like things are looking really great.
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 15, 2006
A guy by the alias of Narf2006 has claimed that he has managed to boot a copy of Windows XP on his iMac. In fact, he has made this video as his “proof”. The hack was done in an effort to win the $13,000 cash reward for successfully booting a copy of Windows XP on [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Is that Rain on the notebook’s display? Not that it matters, ’cause I’m ogling the pretty lady notebook instead. Anyway, the new LG XNOTE S1 shown here is an Intel Core Duo notebook with a 15.4-inch WSXGA widescreen display (1680 x 1050), ATI Mobility Radeon X1K graphics, Digital 5.1 decoder, and a Direct [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 16, 2006
When your products get dissected within days after its release, you’d know you’re doing something right. The merciless guys over at Kodawarisan just took that beautiful iMac apart without any tears shed. Hop on over if you’re into iMac pr0n.
Continue reading...Monday, January 16, 2006
The name synonymous with the world’s most popular chip maker will be gone very soon. Intel will be dropping the Pentium name without making any major announcement, but simply transiting to new processor names such as “Intel D 920″ or “Intel 672″ without introducing a new brand. Apparently, this transition is scheduled to start right in [...]
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