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Mac Pro gets dual-hexacore Intel Xeon upgrade

, Jul 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

It’s not just new iMacs that Apple have outed this morning; the company has also announced updates to its Mac Pro range with the much-anticipated quad- and hexacore Intel Xeon processors.  While the basic configurations include quad-core CPUs as standard, up to two 2.93GHz 6-core Intel Xeon X5670 processors can be specified, along with up to four 512GB SSDs, an ATI Radeon HD 5870 with 1GB of memory, and up to 32GB of DDR3 memory.  Meanwhile there are now two Mini DisplayPort ports as standard.

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Mac mini gets the Colorware treatment

, Jul 26th 2010 Discuss [1]

Colorware has been splashing its paint about again, and come up with this: a custom version of Apple's Mac mini.  All the usual hues are available, with solid, metallic and pearl palettes together with regular or soft-touch finishes, and you can choose different colors for the aluminum chassis and the Apple logo. Read The Full Story

Props from Lost being auctioned off

Lost was a cool show, though it did get a bit tedious after the first few seasons. Now that the show is over all the props from the series are being auctioned off. Among the items are things like that satellite phone Naomi carried, Dharma Beer, that sweet orange Camaro Hurley drove, and more. Read The Full Story

Danish inspired table PC looks like the 60′s

If you liked that coffee table that was filled with circuit boards and other components last week, we have the perfect end tables to go with it today. The little table looks like a speaker from the 1960's to me and has a computer case underneath. Read The Full Story

Humane Reader $20 information repository targets the destitute & disconnected

, Jul 19th 2010 Discuss [1]

Remember the so-called "$10 laptop" project the Indian government was spearheading early last year, that turned out to be a basic standalone storage brick?  Something similar this way comes, in the shape of the Humane Reader: a low-cost 8-bit display device that uses your TV as a display and cheap PS/2 peripherals, it can store around five thousand texts - including local Wikipedia mirrors - but costs just $20. Read The Full Story

Mac Pro & iMac refresh: USB 3.0 & faster FireWire tipped for back-to-school season

, Jul 16th 2010 Discuss [0]

All eyes may be on the iPhone 4 right now (or, more accurately, on its chubby little signal strength meter and whereabouts your fingers are in relation to the antenna) but that doesn't mean we'll bypass a good Mac Pro rumor.  According to one of Hard Mac's "better sources", Apple is preparing for a Mac Pro refresh at the end of the summer, to hopefully tap into the "back to school" period.  Meanwhile they'll be swiftly followed by an iMac refresh. Read The Full Story

Slurp gobbles up files and spits them out to other devices

I'm not sure what to make of this Slurp thing. It’s a digital eyedropper type device that is made to work in conjunction with tech on a computer or other device. In the video attached to the Make page, you can get an idea of how it works. Read The Full Story

NZXT launches Sentry LXE, most badass fan controller ever

I have never really been one to use fan controllers on any of my computers. I have had cases with fan controllers built-in that I have played with over the last few months and I am rethinking my lack of support for the tech. It's very nice to be able to dial the fans way down when I want quiet and speed them up when things are running hot. Read The Full Story

Dell accused of hardware failure cover-up

, Jun 30th 2010 Discuss [1]

Hot warranty water for Dell today, as recently unsealed lawsuit papers reveal the company not only knew PCs on sale between 2003 and 2005 were likely to suffer specific hardware failures, but that they attempted to fob off the University of Texas by claiming the school's mathematicians had pushed the machines too hard with their tricky sums.  The hardware failure was down to capacitors sourced from Nichicon, which had begun to leak chemicals and even burst; Dell, however, chose to "emphasize uncertainty" and told their salespeople "don't bring this to customer's attention proactively" before replacing the broken motherboards with others using the same faulty components. Read The Full Story

eMachines debuts snazzy Mini-e ER1402 SFF PC

eMachines has announced a new home theater PC that is small and looks surprisingly attractive for an eMachines system. The new PC is called the Mini-e ER1402 SFF desktop and is about the size and weight of a small book. Read The Full Story

New Apple Mac mini gets HDMI, GeForce 320M & chassis update

, Jun 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

Apple has finally unveiled its new Mac mini, and as expected the ultra-compact desktop packs an HDMI port along with "up to twice the graphics performance" and an SD card slot.  The new, smaller Apple Mac mini comes with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, 320GB HDD and NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics; the regular model has a slot-loading 8x DVD burner, but as before an OS X Snow Leopard Server version will be offered with no optical drive but two 500GB HDDs instead. Read The Full Story

3M Demoes USB 3.0 Monitor

Technology is an ever-progressing front, and as we welcome the next batch of great inventions, we also have to take in the minor steps in the same direction as well. Then again, getting a monitor that not only receives its display signal from the next step in Bluetooth tech, but is also powered by it, may not be all that minor at all. Thanks to 3M, you can now safely debate the subject, as they've gone ahead and demoed their first monitor that does just that. Read The Full Story

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