The standard NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 card for the Mac Pro is merely adequate. The ATI Radeon HD 4870 upgrade—which should be shipping any day now—is an excellent option, though it’s limited to 512MB of memory and can’t connect two 30″ Cinema Displays without a costly adapter. For Mac Pro users with serious graphics needs, NVIDIA is gearing up to give you what your heart desires.
Apple is tops when it comes to consumer satisfaction among smartphone manufacturers, according to the latest J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Wireless Consumer Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study and the 2009 Wireless Traditional Mobile Phone Satisfaction Study. Apple managed to score a 791 on a 1,000 point scale, performing well in areas of ease of use, operating system, features, and physical design.
Apple appears to be building its own stable of graphics engineers by fiat. Just yesterday,we told you about Apple hiring AMD’s former CTO of its Graphics Products Group, Bob Drebin. It also appears that Apple has also poached its most recent CTO, Raja Koduri, as well.
Apple appears to be building its own stable of graphics engineers by fiat. Just yesterday,we told you about Apple hiring AMD’s former CTO of its Graphics Products Group, Bob Drebin. It also appears that Apple has also poached its most recent CTO, Raja Koduri, as well.
Pure Digital Technologies is keeping up the pace with the constant updates to its pocket-sized camcorder line. The company introduced a new model today, the Flip Ultra HD, which brings the Ultra line up to the same HD standards that the Mino line saw last November. Like the Flip Mino HD, the Ultra HD shoots 720p footage and—in many ways—mirrors the Mino HD’s feature set. So what exactly is different about these two camcorders?
Choice appears to be the hallmark of this edition of the System Guide. Both the Budget Box and Hot Rod have excellent choices from Intel and AMD available in the CPU and motherboard selection, running the gamut from low- to high-end. Combine this with continued jumps in video card performance from both NVIDIA and AMD, and we end up with lots of choice in both the Budget Box and Hot Rod.
The Internets have been rife with speculation about the possibility of a new entry into the Sony PlayStation Portable line, with the biggest noise surrounding a rumored new system that doesn’t feature the battery-draining UMD drive of the past PSP models. While many industry insiders have been talking about the hypothetical system—the buzz at GDC was deafening—the crew at 1UP are now claiming that it’s real, it has been confirmed to them, and it’s likely to be called the PSP Go!
The mystery Apple chip plot thickens today with the news that the company has poached the CTO of AMD’s Graphics Products Group, Bob Drebin. The million dollar question is, what will Drebin do for Apple as Senior Director?
Lexcycle, most well known for its sucessful, top-selling iPhone app Stanza, has been acquired by online book seller Amazon. Though the two companies make competing e-book reading software for the iPhone, for now, Lexcycle will operate as an independent subsidiary.
Microsoft is planning to launch an iPhone rival as early as 2010, according to a new rumor. The project is supposedly code-named “Pink” and aims to extend Windows Mobile with new features and capabilities, as well as make use of the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Microsoft, for its part, would not confirm the rumor when contacted about it by Ars.
