Intel is determined enough to launch its CULV processors that the company is cutting prices by more than half to encourage PC vendors to buy it, notebook builders have reportedly said today. Pricing for a low-end version of the ultraportable chip is officially set at $152 in bulk but has been cut as low as $65 for companies with the very largest PC shipments, such as Acer, Dell and HP. Smaller f...
Sprint details WiMAX rollouts for 2009
Sprint today outlined its expansion plans for its WiMAX 4G service for the next year as well as some early hints of its 2010 plans. The carrier now hopes to launch its wide-area wireless in Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland and Seattle at varying points throughout the year. It has also pushed back its originally planned Washington DC intr...
Apple ranks high in Brandchannel 2009 awards
Apple has placed high in Brandchannel's 2009 brandjunkie awards. Voters chose Apple as the top brand in several categories, such as best retail environment, in which it faced off against companies including IKEA, Starbucks and Walmart. The ability to not only try out products at a store but attend lectures and talk to technicians is cited as a plus, as is a minimalist but visually appealing inte...
New Tests of the Mac Pro
Barefeats continues its test of the new Mac Pro comparing it with the previous models. They mostly concentrate on pro applications. Those results indicate that the new Octo Core clocked at 2.26 GHz is faster than the previous high-end Octo Core sporting 3.2 GHz Xeon. The new high-end Mac Pro featuring Nehalem Xeon at 2.93 GHz is defining a new performance reference. In one test, it completes the task in 63 seconds vs. 102 seconds for the previous high-end model. If the new architecture of the CPU has evolved and may contribute to this performance gain, it is mostly linked to the new memory architecture offering better efficiency than the previous FB-DIMM-based system. Barefeats measured that the memory bandwidth is larger if you use 3 modules per processor instead of 4. The Nehalem is optimized with 3 memory channel. The difference is rather huge, as one can reach 9261 MB/s with 3 modules vs. 6195 MB/s if you use 4.
If you are looking for the best performance level you should think about RAM modules when purchasing your new Mac Pro. A model equipped with 6x2 GB RAM modules will be faster than one having 8x2 GB modules, but only if you do not saturate the 12 GB of RAM available, otherwise performance will drop.
HP launches Core i7 tower, four 16:9 LCDs
HP this morning stepped up the performance of its higher-end, mainstream towers with the launch of the Pavilion Elite m9600t. The system is built on Core i7 processors and takes advantage of the triple-channel memory bus; it also has unusually fast video for the class with a 768MB GeForce 9600 GS. A base model at $950 comes with a 2.66GHz Core i7, 3GB of RAM, and 500GB of disk space while furthe...
Beta Beat: Twitter app Lounge
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, Beta Beat
In the history of marketing battles, The Cola Wars have nothing on the Twitter App War that's currently raging online. Twitterrific, TweetDeck and others are waging the ground battle, while Twitterrific (mobile), Tweetie and TwitterFon (to name a few) are fighting it out in the air.Today we got our hands on a beta of Lounge, a new client for Mac OS X (and iPhone/iPod touch). It's definitely got a way to go (I saw more beach balls than Memorial Day at Hilton Head), but I see where they're going and I like it.
First off, there's support for multiple accounts, and switching between them is easy. A series of buttons appear horizontally in the left of the window, including "My 2 Cents" (which displays just your tweets), Favorites, Friends, Replies and my favorite, Vanity, which finds all occurrences of your Twitter handle.
Mouse over a user's tweet to see options to re-tweet, copy the URL, open in a browser and more. I really like the option to view user details, which lets you see just that user's tweets, his followers, those being followed and profile and URL.
It is kind of wide (wider than Twitterrific but not TweetDeck, of course) so those with small displays be warned. Also, some may be put off by the pastel-colored icons. Still, it shows promise. Check it out if you're up for it, and provide some feedback to make Lounge better.
TUAWBeta Beat: Twitter app Lounge originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
How to Preserve Previous Backup when Upgrading HD of a Time Capsule
Following our previous news related to the installation of a Green WD HD of 2 TB in a Time Capsule, we look at the best way to preserve TM backup while upgrading the HD. The easiest way is the following:
- Disassemble the Time Capsule and install the new HD inside
- Reboot time Capsule and format the new HD, then switch of the TC and uninstall the new HD
- Use a cloning software (Personal Backup or any other one) and clone the data/partition from the old disk to the new disk.
- Install the HD in TC, and you are done
Intel pushing steep discounts on CULV chips?
Intel is determined enough to launch its CULV processors that the company is cutting prices by more than half to encourage PC vendors to buy it, notebook builders have reportedly said today. Pricing for a low-end version of the ultraportable chip is officially set at $152 in bulk but has been cut as low as $65 for companies with the very largest PC shipments, such as Acer, Dell and HP. Smaller f...
Sprint details WiMAX rollouts for 2009
Sprint today outlined its expansion plans for its WiMAX 4G service for the next year as well as some early hints of its 2010 plans. The carrier now hopes to launch its wide-area wireless in Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland and Seattle at varying points throughout the year. It has also pushed back its originally planned Washington DC intr...
Apple ranks high in Brandchannel 2009 awards
Apple has placed high in Brandchannel's 2009 brandjunkie awards. Voters chose Apple as the top brand in several categories, such as best retail environment, in which it faced off against companies including IKEA, Starbucks and Walmart. The ability to not only try out products at a store but attend lectures and talk to technicians is cited as a plus, as is a minimalist but visually appealing inte...
New Tests of the Mac Pro
Barefeats continues its test of the new Mac Pro comparing it with the previous models. They mostly concentrate on pro applications. Those results indicate that the new Octo Core clocked at 2.26 GHz is faster than the previous high-end Octo Core sporting 3.2 GHz Xeon. The new high-end Mac Pro featuring Nehalem Xeon at 2.93 GHz is defining a new performance reference. In one test, it completes the task in 63 seconds vs. 102 seconds for the previous high-end model. If the new architecture of the CPU has evolved and may contribute to this performance gain, it is mostly linked to the new memory architecture offering better efficiency than the previous FB-DIMM-based system. Barefeats measured that the memory bandwidth is larger if you use 3 modules per processor instead of 4. The Nehalem is optimized with 3 memory channel. The difference is rather huge, as one can reach 9261 MB/s with 3 modules vs. 6195 MB/s if you use 4.
If you are looking for the best performance level you should think about RAM modules when purchasing your new Mac Pro. A model equipped with 6x2 GB RAM modules will be faster than one having 8x2 GB modules, but only if you do not saturate the 12 GB of RAM available, otherwise performance will drop.
HP launches Core i7 tower, four 16:9 LCDs
HP this morning stepped up the performance of its higher-end, mainstream towers with the launch of the Pavilion Elite m9600t. The system is built on Core i7 processors and takes advantage of the triple-channel memory bus; it also has unusually fast video for the class with a 768MB GeForce 9600 GS. A base model at $950 comes with a 2.66GHz Core i7, 3GB of RAM, and 500GB of disk space while furthe...
Beta Beat: Twitter app Lounge
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, Beta Beat
In the history of marketing battles, The Cola Wars have nothing on the Twitter App War that's currently raging online. Twitterrific, TweetDeck and others are waging the ground battle, while Twitterrific (mobile), Tweetie and TwitterFon (to name a few) are fighting it out in the air.Today we got our hands on a beta of Lounge, a new client for Mac OS X (and iPhone/iPod touch). It's definitely got a way to go (I saw more beach balls than Memorial Day at Hilton Head), but I see where they're going and I like it.
First off, there's support for multiple accounts, and switching between them is easy. A series of buttons appear horizontally in the left of the window, including "My 2 Cents" (which displays just your tweets), Favorites, Friends, Replies and my favorite, Vanity, which finds all occurrences of your Twitter handle.
Mouse over a user's tweet to see options to re-tweet, copy the URL, open in a browser and more. I really like the option to view user details, which lets you see just that user's tweets, his followers, those being followed and profile and URL.
It is kind of wide (wider than Twitterrific but not TweetDeck, of course) so those with small displays be warned. Also, some may be put off by the pastel-colored icons. Still, it shows promise. Check it out if you're up for it, and provide some feedback to make Lounge better.
TUAWBeta Beat: Twitter app Lounge originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
How to Preserve Previous Backup when Upgrading HD of a Time Capsule
Following our previous news related to the installation of a Green WD HD of 2 TB in a Time Capsule, we look at the best way to preserve TM backup while upgrading the HD. The easiest way is the following:
- Disassemble the Time Capsule and install the new HD inside
- Reboot time Capsule and format the new HD, then switch of the TC and uninstall the new HD
- Use a cloning software (Personal Backup or any other one) and clone the data/partition from the old disk to the new disk.
- Install the HD in TC, and you are done
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