This past Tuesday Apple released new Penryn-based MacBooks and MacBook Pros. This upgrade has been anticipated by Mac-enthusiasts for months, and the release has notebook users from all generations wanting to upgrade their notebooks. I, on the other hand, cannot understand the madness. MacBook Pro owners using only a six-month old MacBook Pro are dumping [...]
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Tag Archives: intel
The Bigger Picture of AMD’s ATI Purchase
As you may have heard, AMD has purchased ATI. While this merger will possibly lead the way for AMD based graphic cores and other great things, I tend to see this as a potential problem for the tech industry as a whole; particularly people who build their own computers. See, Intel has pulled the license [...]
From Hackintosh to Macintosh
To start off this article, you should know a little bit about my Mac background. About a year ago I had never used Mac OS X in my life. Back then I never even saw a Mac computer in real life. Sure, I knew what they looked like, and I saw demos of OS X [...]
Apple’s Switch to Intel: Are Developers on Track?
I’ve been hearing mixed feelings about Apple’s switch to Intel. Some think the transition is going wonderfully, while others have been skeptical over issues such as the recent MacBook power connector bursting into flames. I thought I’d finally weigh in with my thoughts on the developers’ transition to Intel OS X. Now before you pass [...]
The Perfect OSx86 Motherboard?
Yesterday I received my new motherboard for my Mactel (aka OSx86 box). The motherboard is an ASRock P4DUAL-915GL, and it’s the only socket 478 motherboard which has a 915 based chipset. The 915 based chipset is key in OSx86 boxes as the official Apple developer x86 boxed run on that chipset. I was lucky to [...]