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…


News: “Citrix Synergy Day 2 Keynote”

Posted: May 6th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Citrix Synergy Day 2 Keynote on blog.scottlowe.org
Topics: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Xeon, MacBook Pro, MacBook

The Citrix Synergy Day 2 keynote starts about 8:40 AM with Pat Gelsinger of Intel, a figure becoming increasingly visible at events such as this conference. He starts his talk with a review of IDC statistics on the pressures and forces that are…