News: “New. . . Everyting?”

Posted: March 1st, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

New. . . Everyting? on iPod Touch Hacks
Topics: MacBook, MacBook Air, Xeon

MacBook Pro – it has been 66 days since the MBPs last update and the rumor mill has been turning quickly. Apple’s new version of the MBP should have any number of updates among these being the intel i5 or i7 processor and an updated…


News: “End of Year Sale: Save up to $250 off Macs & iPods at MacMall”

Posted: December 26th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

End of Year Sale: Save up to $250 off Macs & iPods at MacMall on Dealhack
Topics: SuperDrive, Xeon, MacBook, Intel Core 2, Intel Core, Intel Core

Get savings of up to $250 off Macs & iPods with the End of Year Sale at MacMall. The discounts include both instant savings and rebate savings, depending on the product purchased. A few examples: 13.3-inch MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26GHz, 2GB RAM,…


News: “MacMall Cyber Monday Offers”

Posted: November 30th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

MacMall Cyber Monday Offers on Fatwallet.com Hot Deals
Topics: DDR3 SDRAM, SuperDrive, MacBook Pro, Mac OS X, MacBook Air, Intel Core 2, Mac OS X Server, Xeon, MacBook, Intel Core

Rating: 0 Posted By: Logician1313 Views: 790 Replies: 0 Here is a list of the Cyber Monday Offers for MacMall, as provided by the merchant. MacMall Cyber Monday ends at midnight PST.iMacs21.5″ iMac – 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M…


News: “Lessons From Parallelizing Matrix MultiplicationSoftware Engineering Matters :”

Posted: November 23rd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Lessons From Parallelizing Matrix MultiplicationSoftware Engineering Matters : on Planet Smalltalk
Topics: Xeon, Intel Core, MacBook Pro, Mac OS X, MacBook

Before you dismiss this as yet another boring matrix multiplication example, consider that this, this, this and a lot of other tutorials on the web all use a naive version of matrix multiplication and then attempt to parallelize that version of it to…


News: “Will a $1.25B Antitrust Settlement from Intel and New Fusion Chips Save AMD?”

Posted: November 11th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Will a $1.25B Antitrust Settlement from Intel and New Fusion Chips Save AMD? on Fast Company
Topics: MacBook Pro, Xeon, MacBook

Intel has just agreed to pay $1.25 billion to its biggest rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and agreed to a set of “business practice provisions” aimed at staving off future antitrust complaints. The agreement settles a federal case…


News: “New iMacs, MacBooks in the fall Apple fashion lineup?”

Posted: September 26th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

New iMacs, MacBooks in the fall Apple fashion lineup? on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: MacBook, MacBook Pro, Xeon, Intel Core

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Rumors, iMac, MacBookIt looks like the new Mac rumor mill is starting to grind again, as several web sites are reporting that Apple is close to releasing updates to several parts of the product line. Joachim…


News: “Snow Leopard performance improvements are there, but small”

Posted: August 27th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

Snow Leopard performance improvements are there, but small on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: MacBook Pro, Xeon, Intel Core 2, MacBook, Time Machine, Intel Core

Snow Leopard is purported to provide many small but much-needed tweaks to its predecessor, Leopard. One oft-touted tweak is a speed boost, but according to tests by Macworld the performance and speed of a few different computers improved only…


News: “Intel’s Core i7 ‘Clarksfield’ CPUs for laptops launching late September?”

Posted: July 12th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

Intel’s Core i7 ‘Clarksfield’ CPUs for laptops launching late September? on Engadget
Topics: Xeon, MacBook Pro, Intel Core i7, Intel Core 2, Celeron, MacBook

Taiwanese rumor-rag, DigiTimes, has a knack for sniffing out insider information from within Taiwan’s MoBo manufacturing cartel. So it’s worth paying attention when it claims to have the latest launch schedule for Intel CPUs. Up first is a trio of…


News: “Bjorn Buckwalter: Benchmarking Amazon EC2 with GHC”

Posted: May 25th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Bjorn Buckwalter: Benchmarking Amazon EC2 with GHC on Planet Haskell
Topics: Xeon, PowerBook G4, Intel Atom

My personal computers are pretty old and/or slow. I have an old PowerBook G4 and a newish EEE PC. The PowerBook was top of its class when I got it with most options maxed out. Alas, that was five years ago. The EEE PC is by definition not a top…


News: “Russian Clone Maker Rolls Out Fleet Of OS X Desktops, Laptops, and a Netbook”

Posted: May 21st, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Russian Clone Maker Rolls Out Fleet Of OS X Desktops, Laptops, and a Netbook on TheAppleBlog
Topics: Xeon, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac OS X, Intel Nehalem

Apple must feel besieged by an attack of the clones these days, with Mac OS knockoff makers popping up in the U.S. (Psystar and OpenTech), Germany (PearC), Argentina (OpeniMac) the U.K. (FreedomPC). Now a Russian startup calling itself RussianMac is…