New iMacs, iWork, iLife, Dot Mac upgrades

August 8, 2007 · Filed Under Computer Gadgets & Hardware · Comment 

New iMacs, iWork, iLife, Dot Mac upgrades

Apple wants to offer a certain level of computing experience, and that can’t be done on the cheap. “We just can’t ship junk,” Jobs said.

Ladies and gentleman, the all new iMac, and Steve Jobs is betting that the iMac would be the next best selling desktop PC ever provided that the desktop PC market recovers from the dead.

The new entry-level iMac comes with a 20-inch glossy LCD screen, a dual-core Intel processor, a gigabyte of memory, a quarter-terabyte of storage, and a built-in webcam.

What makes the new iMac stands out is the new aluminum and glass styling is strongly evocative of the company’s hit iPhone. Nothing much to shout about, I was hoping a new Operating System and possibly a Quad Core processor as the new entry line-up.

But then again, with the ability to run Windows in an iMac, this could possible be the selling point Steve Jobs is talking about, I for once as a boss would be glad to purchase these iMac, virus free.

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Intel quad-core with 70% performance boost

September 28, 2006 · Filed Under Sci and Tech · Comment 

Intel quad-core with 70% performance boost

Call this soon to be release intel quad-core a AMD killer, with AMD announcing their release of a quad core chip early 2007, intel manage to hit the rot when it is hot. With a 70% boost interm of performance, this quad-core is a killer chip.

Unlike AMD “real” quad-core that has four processor in a chip, intel quad-core comes with two sets of dual-core processor. Meaning to say that instead of putting 4 processor in a chip, intel decided that two dual-core processor would be the ideal marketing strategy. AMD has been caught by surprise and they seems to be unhappy with the fact that intel is “cheating” in the processor race. It doesn’t really matter, as long as the end results is good.

However, Intel CEO Paul Otellini has a point when he says that consumers don’t care whether they’re getting four cores on a single die or four cores spread across two chips. What they care about is performance.

AMD has a lot of catching up to do, on the development of production, intel has a leading advantage in manufacturing processor, the year 2007 could be seen as a year where intel shift their production from 65nm to 45nm development, with the ability to produce 45nm chips, more chips can be squeeze out from a single waffer thus lowering the cost of each chip. AMD needs a 45nm production plant badly.

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