There’s a great opinion piece on Ars Technica which reveals why Apple is switching to Intel: I’ve worked with Apple Authored by: overshoot on Sunday, June 12 2005 @ 08:56 PM EDT and I can tell you, there’s a very good chance that they outsmarted themselves into a “no bid” response from IBM. Part of [...]
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Apple to switch from IBM to Intel :-(
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware, IBM, Intel
In some shocking news Apple has decided to stop using IBM powerPC chips, and wants to switch over to Intel in the future: Apple has used IBM’s PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel’s chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the [...]
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Apple’s G5 versus x86, Mac OS X versus Linux
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware, IBM, Intel
Anandtech has written a piece comparing the G5 to x86 architecture (and OSX to Linux) purely on a performance basis. Their results are interesting, but not really suprising: The G5 is a gigantic improvement over the previous CPU in the PowerMac, the G4e. The G5 is one of the most superscalar CPUs ever, and has [...]
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IBM To Help Track Drivers On UAE Roads
April 17th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Cool Geeky Stuff, IBM, Middle East, Mobiles & Gadgets, News, Privacy
Slashdot, GeekCoffee and InformatonWeek are all reporting on a new deal between the UAE & IBM to track drivers to monitor speeding. Excerpt: IBM said it has signed a four-year, $125 million deal to build an automobile-monitoring system and install a device in cars to track drivers in the United Arab Emirates, making it the [...]
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SCO’s Revenue Continues To Decline
April 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, IBM, Linux, News
Good news for all of us wanting to live in a free virtual world. Eweek reports that SCO’s revenue is continuing to decline. Excerpt: The SCO Group Inc. has been locked in battles with IBM and other companies over its Unix intellectual property rights, whether any of its Unix code has been stolen into the [...]
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Round round round we go, where all that processor speed is nobody knows
February 8th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, IBM, Intel
Peter Seebach has written another interesting piece at IBM Developerworks on where all that extra CPU power we have these days is going. Excerpt: Computers are getting faster all the time, or so they tell us. But, in fact, the user experience of performance hasn’t improved much over the past 15 years. Peter looks at [...]
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