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Gadgets
Gifts For Apple Cultists Who’ve Grown Beyond Shame
3:00AM Mark Wilson | If you’re reading this, there’s at least a 50 percent chance you or someone you know is a complete Mactard. Here’s their wish list (SPOILER: It’s all Apple stuff): More »
Computers
ColorWare’s Kaleidoscope Of Colour Comes To 27-inch IMacs And The Magic Mouse
12:44AM Danny Allen | Hot the heels of letting you paint the PS3 Slim, ColorWare will now also customise your latest Apple gear. For $US500, you can colourise your own iMac, or pay a $US700 premium (over Apple’s prices) to buy one from ColorWare. More »
Entertainment
Jerry Seinfeld Upgrades Classic Mac With iMac
12:59AM Jesus Diaz | Sadly, obsolete gadgets have to be replaced. Happily, change is good. This is what happened to Jerry Seinfeld’s ever-present 1984 Macintosh 128K which, after all these years, has been replaced by a new iMac. More »
Computers
Core i7 iMacs Showing Up Dead With Alarming Frequency
5:38PM Dan Nosowitz | There’s a lot of grumbling going on in forums and other blogs about Core i7 iMacs showing up DOA much more often than you’d expect from a brand new computer. We’re not exactly sure what’s going on, but something’s up. More »
Computers
Why It’s Gotten Straight Stupid To Buy A Mac Pro
8:00AM Mark Wilson | Never before has it been so apparent that a power tower – pretty much the laziest design in the computer industry – is being sold by a design-centric company with neither design nor power. More »
Computers
6:00AM Brian Lam and Don Nguyen | Our iMac review included a 3.06GHz Core2Duo chip inside, but we received the top of the line iMac housing the more promising 2.8GHz Core i7 processor. Do more cores make up for lower clock speeds? Yes. Often 2-3 times. More »
Benchmarked: The QuadCore i7 iMac Is Super Fast
6:00AM Brian Lam and Don Nguyen | Our iMac review included a 3.06GHz Core2Duo chip inside, but we received the top of the line iMac housing the more promising 2.8GHz Core i7 processor. Do more cores make up for lower clock speeds? Yes. Often 2-3 times. More »
Computers
11:09PM Danny Allen | The Core i5 iMacs are fast, but early benchmarks of the Core i7 model suggest a 35 per cent performance boost, even though upgrade only costs $US200 extra. Timon-Royer’s telling graph uses results from the Geekbench Website. [Timon-Royer via MacRumors]
27-inch iMac Benchmarks: Core i7 Vs. Core i5
11:09PM Danny Allen | The Core i5 iMacs are fast, but early benchmarks of the Core i7 model suggest a 35 per cent performance boost, even though upgrade only costs $US200 extra. Timon-Royer’s telling graph uses results from the Geekbench Website. [Timon-Royer via MacRumors]
Computers
First Of The Quad Core i5 iMac Benchmarks
10:32AM Brian Lam | Electronista has benchmarked the new Quad Core i5 chips in the new iMac, and comparing his scores to mine, its pretty clear we’ve got almost two times some scores in some CPU/memory tests. More »
Computers
Apple Shipping Beefier Core i5 And i7 iMacs
12:12AM Mark Wilson | We were impressed by the new Core 2 Duo iMac, but advised that you might want to hold off for the Core i5/i7 versions to ship. AppleInsider is reporting that, well, they’re shipping from Shanghai as we speak. [AppleInsider]
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