hardware

A Look at New Super Mac Project from Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech‘s Center for High-End Computing System (CHECS) is famous for building a 1100-node, G5-based supercomputing cluster in 2003 called System X. At the time it was built, it ranked as the third fastest supercomputer in the world with a sustained performance of just over 12 teraflops. The CHECS is building a new cluster, this [...]

Intel announced their new architecture Montevina

As you may know, Apple cooperate with Intel firm since some times and we already had to follow the innovations of Intel’s processor todays. Intel has been announced a new processor architecture in this week. Centrino 2 (code name with Montevina). Shortly, Centrino 2 means that its more fast processors, enabled longer battery life, integrated [...]

Digital camera RAW formats supported by Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

The Mac OS X 10.5.4 update might have made you restart your Mac, but it also added “RAW image support for several cameras.” While Apple didn’t tell us what these cameras were in Software Update, they did later update the RAW support page for Mac OS X Leopard.

Solid State Drives reduce your Mac battery runtime

In an interesting test by the folks over at Tom’s Hardware, solid-state drives (SSDs) suck more power than their platter-based counterparts. Why should you care? Because the MacBook Air features an SSD in its higher-end configurations. Tom’s looked at four different SSD models, and compared them with a 7,200 RPM disk of the same size. [...]

Macally: IceCam2 for your Mac

After Logitech, another manufacturer puts on the markets to webcam for Mac platform. Manufacturer of accessories, Macally introduced a new product IceCam2. It already has high performance and compact USB2.0 Webcam with Microphone built in for video conferencing. 2-Axle swivel joints, fully adjustable pointing angles(360 degree horizontal rotation, 135 degree tilt back and forth), spring [...]

New HD webcam of Logitech: QuickCam Vision Pro

Apologies to Dr. Peter Venkman, but it’s hard to believe that it’s taken this long for a webcam vendor to encroach on the vacuum left by the discontinued iSight. Logitech has now announced the QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac, featuring “premium autofocus technology and Carl Zeiss® optics.” No word on whether the camera will feature [...]