Posted under Hardware, Intel, News, iPhone, Apple on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
Although the speculation was rampant when Apple bought PA Semi earlier this year, Intel made it official: there will not be Intel processors in the iPhone.
Intel is preparing more x86 versions of their processors for mobile devices, and “Apple chose not to take that road map at their next generation of platform…That was disappointing,” […]
Posted under mobile, pa-semi, Hardware, Intel, iPhone, News, Apple on April 23rd, 2008 by admin
I don’t think this will show up in tonight’s quarterly report, but Forbes is reporting that Apple bought chip company P.A. Semi with the apparent hopes to use them to create chips for the iPhone. Unsurprisingly, Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said, “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not […]
Posted under rdc, remote desktop connection, universal binary, beta, microsoft, software, Intel, Apple on March 31st, 2008 by admin
Apple promised to transition all of its Macs to using Intel microprocessors by the end of 2007 and Microsoft released a Universal Binary version of Office in January 2008, but a Remote Desktop Connection Client that runs natively on Intel Macs is still in beta. Except now that beta has expired… sort of.
Microsoft released RDC 2.0 Beta […]
Posted under architecture, history, PowerPC, leopard, Hardware, Commentary, Intel, Apple on September 30th, 2007 by admin
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Noted blogger and podcaster Daniel Eran Dilger writes today at Roughly Drafted on Leopard and the History and Future of Mac OS X on PowerPC.
For those of you, like our own Stephanie Guertin, who are running on older PPC systems, Dilger lays out why support for the PowerPC isn’t going away […]
Posted under PowerBook, upgrade, Mac OS X, Intel, Commentary, Reader Feedback, Apple on August 20th, 2007 by admin
When entering college in 1995, I purchased my first computer that was all mine - a Performa 631CD, with screaming 33 MHz performance and a 68040LC processor. Sporting 8 MB of RAM and 500 MB of hard drive space, I was good to go. But unsurprisingly, I was immediately lapped, not just by the next […]