It looks like my suspicions were correct, Apple didn’t put the Compatibility Support Module (CSM) into the final firmware for the iMac. If I had to suspect reasons why, it was probably to motivate Microsoft to continue supporting Mac versions of Office, and give them a market for Virtual PC. Without CSM, the only future […]
From a mailing list posting by Jason Watkins, SAS Computing: Here are some facts about “Core Duo” that may shed some light on the questions of battery consumption in the new MacBook Pro laptops. “Yonah,” the code-name that Core Duo previously went under, features 151 million transistors on a single die, dual core chip. Each […]
The Spunker has a blog entry calling out Apple for their latest television commerical. Apparently the new TV ad is almost an exact copy of a music video by The Postal Service for their song “Such Great Heights.” Check out this video of the Apple television commercial side-by-side with The Postal Service video. (Thanks J. […]
More insight on the potential battery run time of the MacBook Pro can be gleaned by looking at the specs of other notebooks using the Intel Core Duo processor. According to PowerPage reader Brad Laue, the Acer TravelMate 8200 with similar specifications (Intel Core Duo 2.0GHz CPU, Radeon X1600, 1GB DDR2 667, 160GB SATA 5400RPM, […]
When Apple tried to prove that G5 was better than Intel, they used a generic non-optimised GCC compiler for the Intel machine. This time, they used an optimised Intel compiler to prove that Intel is better than the G5. How quickly we forget! Read the full article at ExtremeTech.com. (Thanks Digg).