2nd August 2006 Archive

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Sonnet ships dual-CPU upgrade for G4 Power Macs

Twin core

Sonnet has begun shipping a series of processor upgrades for Apple's old Power Mac G4. Each Encore/ST G4 Duet packs in a pair of 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz MPC7447A G4-class CPUs with 512KB of L2 cache. The upgrade fits any Power Mac G4 'Gigabit Ethernet', 'Digital Audio' and 'QuickSilver' models, along with some 'AGP Graphics' …

Mac 2 Aug 2006, 09:09
Intel chip surplus drives up industry inventory

It'll take some time to shift, warns market watcher

The chip industry's stockpile of unwanted processors and chipsets jumped above expectations during Q2, and it's largely Intel's fault, market watcher iSuppli claimed yesterday. It's almost entirely Intel's problem, too. In Q1, there were $1.1bn worth of unsold PC chips in the electronics supply chain. In Q2, the surplus rose …

Bits 'n' Chips 2 Aug 2006, 09:22
Nvidia preparing mobile MCP61?

Firm's single-chip integrated chipset coming to AMD's Socket S1

Nvidia's upcoming single-chip integrated chipset for AMD's Socket AM2 CPUs, the MCP61, will be offered in a form suitable for notebook use in addition to the desktop versions the chipset is already expected to ship as, motherboard-maker moles have claimed. The whispers - cited by DigiTimes - also point to an August debut for …

Bits 'n' Chips 2 Aug 2006, 09:44
Japanese Mac users get first OS X-friendly Blu-ray burner

Toast 7 Titanium, Firewire on board

Japanese storage specialist Logitec will ship what may be the world's first Mac-compatible Blu-ray Disc burner later this month. The 2x BD drive can write to BD-R and BD-RE media offering 25GB and 50GB storage capacities. Logitec also said the drive - dubbed the LBD-A2FU2/WM - will support DVD-RAM, DVD±R/RW, dual-layer DVD±R …

Mac 2 Aug 2006, 10:03
Intel plugs Centrino vulns

Wi-Fi virus fears played down

Intel has released security updates for its Centrino wireless chipset device drivers and its PROSet management software designed to guard against a trio of serious security vulns. One of the flaws creates a possible means for hackers to inject hostile code into systems running vulnerable versions of Centrino Wireless Device …

PCs 2 Aug 2006, 10:28
Samsung to ship 'Moto-shaving' Ultra Edition slimlines next week

6.9mm thick

Samsung will next week ship its 6.9mm-thick Ultra Edition SPH-V9900 candybar handset to South Korean phone buyers, the company said today. It will offer a 12.9mm slider phone and a 9.9mm clamshell handset at the same time, all through local telco KTF. The phones are coming to Europe and the US as the X820, D900 and D830 before …

Phones 2 Aug 2006, 10:50
Sony readies 7.2Mp slimline Cyber-shot

T10 to feature 'high sensitivity' movie mode too

Sony has introduced the Cyber-shot DSC-T10, the 7.2-megapixel upgrade to its six-megapixel DSC-T9. The new model, due later this month, also packs in anti-blur technology and a high-sensitivity movie mode - for shooting in low light conditions, not for filming weepies, we'd suggest. The T10 sports the usual Carl Zeiss Vario- …

Gadgets and Gizmos 2 Aug 2006, 11:45
Toshiba brings logical block addressing to Flash

Cheaper PMPs for all. Apparently.

Toshiba today claimed it will make Flash-based media players even cheaper. It has brought a memory addressing technique used by hard drives to solid-state storage. The method is called Logical Block Addressing (LBA), and it assigns each memory cell an address that's independent of the memory device's structure or …

Storage 2 Aug 2006, 13:44
Windows on Mac: BootCamp vs Parallels Desktop

Review How to run the 'other' operating system...

Almost as soon as Intel-based Macs were available to buy, clever coders were trying to figure out how to run Windows XP on them. Mac OS X not good enough for you, guys? Well, in some cases no, it's not. Mac OS X may be the better product - discuss... - but Windows has access to far more software applications and hardware toys …

Mac 2 Aug 2006, 15:04
Samsung brings slimline 'super 3G' clamshell to Europe

Flip-phone

Samsung today rolled out its SGH-Z560 HSDPA-compatible clamshell phone in France and Germany ahead of the handset's appearance in other European countries. The 16.3mm-thick, 98g phone has a two megapixel camera with autofocus and sports a 2.3in, 240 x 320, 262,144-colour main display. It's got 30MB of memory, expandible using …

Phones 2 Aug 2006, 16:06