Apple chief executive Steve Jobs stayed home last night to catch up on some much needed rest while his attorney made another go at convincing a local review board that he should be free to demolish a historic but abandoned mansion — seen in these rare photos — that has fallen into a state of [...]
Archive for April, 2009
30 Apr
NVIDIA prepping GeForce GTX 285 for Mac Pro
Owners of Apple’s Mac Pro workstations will have a second, high-end home video card option within weeks, as NVIDIA is planning to release a version of its GeForce GTX 285 chipset specifically for Macs. The GPU maker told AppleInsider on Wednesday that the new card, simply labeled the GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition, would ship in [...]
30 Apr
Apple’s proprietary iPhone chips may not surface till next year
Apple’s fairly public plans to design a family of exclusive chips to power its next-generation iPhone and multi-touch handheld products may not fully materialize until sometime next year, according to the Wall Street Journal, which provides an overview of the matter with a few additional details.
The report published Thursday recaps the Cupertino-based company’s acquisition of the 150-person P.A. Semi chip design firm and the subsequent hires of two key (1, 2) chip architects from ATI/AMD, including former chief technology officer of AMD’s graphics products group Raja Koduri, who the financial paper says started work at the iPhone maker this week.
More after the jump.
30 Apr
Apple May Shave Weight of Future MacBooks with Carbon Fiber Composites
Apple is looking into new ways to save weight on their MacBooks, a recent USPTO filing shows. They have patented a new way to create carbon fiber composites that—unlike traditional ones—look sleek, shiny, and lickable: A composite laminate having an improved cosmetic surface is presented herein. The composite laminate includes a plurality of sheets of preimpregnated [...]
30 Apr
First Solid Gold iPhone Takes Tackiness to New Levels
Rejoice, dirty-rich people of the world, because now you can buy an iPhone which is not gold plated but actual solidgold, plus the obligatory diamonds in the logo. Just $34,168. [Stuart Hughes]
30 Apr
Switching to a Mac: One Month In
About a month ago, after multiple laptop disasters that in all likelihood were my fault, I decided to switch to a Mac after a lifetime of PC use. How’s it been? It’s been pretty good. Here’s a quick rundown of some of my experiences. • Expose and Spaces are great for someone who usually has over [...]
30 Apr
Apple Is Serious About Gaming: Steals Xbox Senior Director of Strategy
Anybody who said Apple wasn’t serious about gaming can swallow their pundit nuggets right now: They just hired Richard Teversham, Xbox Europe’s (now former) senior director of business, insights and strategy. It’s especially interesting when you take into consideration Apple’s other recent major hire, ATI’s former graphics CTO, the guy who designed the GameCube’s graphics card. For [...]
30 Apr
Guy goes to extreme lengths to get his MacBook Air issue heard
At first, I was like “What an idiot, this guy is destroying a mostly good MacBook Air for no reason, he must be rich and stupid”. But, look what happened. The video is spreading over the Internet.
30 Apr
iPhone 3.0 Beta 4 Is Up
The iPhone OS 3 beta 4 release is out now for developers, but you must install iTunes 8.2 (pre-release) in order to get it. Will let you know what’s new once we find out. [Apple]
30 Apr
iTunes 8.2 May Point to Blu-ray on Macs
The new version of iTunes 8.2 (required by the latestiPhone 3.0 Beta) has a mention of Blu-ray in the about screen. This means Blu-ray in Macs come WWDC? Maybe, maybe not. Although the old version didn’t have DVD either (the new version does), there was no Blu-ray functionality at all in iTunes before. And, it doesn’t [...]
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