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'Tis Finally The Season For Intel's Core 2 Duo
Intel To Ship New Desktop, Laptop Chips In August
Intel Core 2 Duo vs AMD Athlon 64 FX-62
Merom Laptops To Ship Late August
Hi-def Video Add-on Coming To iPod
Memorex Readies Handheld iPod Videoscreen
Apple admits MacBook, MacBook Pro Issues
"Ten-year-old Apple Newton beats latest Windows UMPC"
Powering the $100 Laptop
More On MacBook Palmrest Issue
The Mac Night Owl: The Leopard Report: Forget the New Features!
'Tis Finally The Season For Intel's Core 2 Duo
CNET News.com's Tom Krazit reports:
Without a new operating system from Microsoft, the performance delivered by the new chip could be the selling point for PCs this holiday season.
It might be the chip that saves Christmas.
Intel is finally ready to launch its Core 2 Duo processor Thursday at an event at its Santa Clara, Calif.-based headquarters, after months of talks and PowerPoint slides. And based on the early reviews, it appears as though Intel has a winner on performance.
For the full report click here.
Intel To Ship New Desktop, Laptop Chips In August
Reuters' Aiko Hayashi reports:
Intel Corp. said on Thursday it plans to start shipping new processors for desktop and laptop computers in August, betting the energy-saving chips would help the world's largest semiconductor maker regain share from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Intel, which has been losing market share in computer processors to AMD, is introducing a series of new products with all-new designs this year. It says the chips bring better performance and lower power consumption, counting on them to help halt several quarters of falling sales and profits.....
The Core 2 Duo series, previously codenamed Conroe and Merom, is the second in a range of products that use a more efficient design after the Xeon 5100 series, a new chip for computer servers that hit the market last month.
For the full report click here.
Intel Core 2 Duo vs AMD Athlon 64 FX-62
The Register's Lars-Göran Nilsson reports:
Although Reg Hardware published benchmarks for the new Intel Core 2 Duo and Extreme chips almost two weeks ago, it has taken that long for Intel to launch the product formally. If you've got the cash, you should be able to pick one up today. But the question many folk - particularly those with a preference for AMD's processors - are still asking is, why? There's no doubt that Intel has produced an impressive successor to the Pentium D, but can it beat AMD's latest offerings?
We should point out that we wanted to include full benchmarks for AMD's Athlon 64 FX-62 in our Core 2 Duo review. AMD, alas, was unable to supply us with one for testing. Too busy buying ATI to make any chips, eh, lads?
So, to give you an idea of how much faster the Core 2 Duo architecture is, we've compared our benchmarks from the Core 2 review with those we recorded for our FX-62 review......
For the full review visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/27/core_2_duo_vs_athlon_64_fx-62/
Merom Laptops To Ship Late August
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
Intel has published the details of the first 'Merom' mobile Core 2 Duo processors, though the chips will not ship in notebooks until toward the end of August, the chip giant revealed this morning.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/27/intel_merom_details/
Hi-def Video Add-on Coming To iPod
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos reports:
In about five months, you'll be able to watch high-definition video on your iPod.
Podcessory maker ATO plans to release a sleeve with a built-in LCD screen that slips around Apple's iPod -- whether it's a video iPod or not -- and turns it into a portable high-definition video player, John Scott, CEO of the start-up company, said at the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit taking place this week at Stanford University.
The iSee HD player will sell for between $199 and $250 (around £120) and will be released at the end of the year. The initial players will be able to handle MPEG-4, DivX, HD.264 and other formats. The battery on the device will last for about five hours.
For the full report visit here:
http://news.cnet.co.uk/dvdpvr/0,39029670,49282340,00.htm
Memorex Readies Handheld iPod Videoscreen
Reg Hardware reports:
Memorex is preparing an iPod accessory that converts the diminutive digital music player into one of those portable DVD display machines - minus the optical drive, of course. Dubbed the iFlip, the unit connects a stowed video-capable iPod to an 8.4in, 480 x 234 widescreen LCD.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/27/memorex_iflip/
Apple admits MacBook, MacBook Pro Issues
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
Apple has acknowledged problems with its Intel-based portables that buyers have been banging on about for some time. In two support documents, the company informs suffering users to contact its AppleCare customer service team.
That's it - just contact AppleCare. No solution is offered for the "high-pitched buzzing sound" affecting some MacBook Pros or the "discolouration" seen "on the top case [of a MacBook] after some use".
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/27/apple_acknowledges_macbook_issues/
"Ten-year-old Apple Newton beats latest Windows UMPC"
digitalliving.cnet.co.uk reports:
Fans will tell you that the Apple Newton was years ahead of its time. Ten years on we're going to put that claim to the test. We're pitting a vintage Apple Newton against the brand-new Samsung Q1 ultra-mobile PC in a head-to-head battle.
We've all dreamed of owning a portable device that can organise, entertain and enrich our lives. Over the years, we've seen dozens of contenders for this role, but the vast majority of them fall into the same category as the Hindenburg: miserable failures.
Two of the most high-profile devices in this category are the Apple Newton and the Samsung Q1. Though separated by over a decade, they share a form factor, work in a similar way and were designed with the intention of redefining how users interact with computers.
....The model we're pitting against the Q1 is the 1997 Newton MessagePad 2000. This was a later revision of the MessagePad line and represents the Newton at its strongest.
For the full report visit here:
http://digitalliving.cnet.co.uk/specials/0,39030785,49282099,00.htm
Powering the $100 Laptop
technologyreview.com's Kevin Bullis reports: :
The first working prototype of the $100 laptop. Conspicuously missing: the hand-crank generator present in an earlier design. The new human-powered generator will be separate from the laptop itself, and much more efficient than a hand crank.
As the One Laptop per Child project, a nonprofit effort based in Cambridge, MA, nears the completion of its rugged and versatile laptop designed for school children in poor countries, a key component has fallen into place: an efficient, human-powered generator that could make the computer practical for children living in areas without reliable, affordable electricity.
The new generators, which will be field-tested beginning this October, abandon the bulky and inefficient hand-crank design featured on an early mock-up of the laptop in favor of a more compact off-laptop design that uses a pull string to spin a small generator. It was developed by Squid Labs, Emeryville, CA, a design and engineering group whose co-founders include several graduates of MIT's Media Lab, where the laptop project originated.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17194&ch=infotech
More On MacBook Palmrest Issue
HardMac's Lionel reports:
One of our readers has sent us an Apple's internal document providing additional information concerning the MacBook palmrest issue. This information is valid world-wide.
You can check it out at:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2006-07-27/#5787
The Mac Night Owl: The Leopard Report: Forget the New Features!
Sometimes I put up a headline mostly for the entertainment value, but I’m fairly serious about this one. Mac OS X needs a fair amount of fixing, and a few hundred of those ahead of a few hundred bits of eye candy might be just the ticket.
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