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Yesterday, Voyager 1 passed 100 astronomical units (one AU equals the distance from the Earth to the Sun) from the sun as it continues operating after nearly 30 years in space. That is about 15 billion kilometers or 9.3 billion miles as it travels about 1 million miles per day. Scientists still hope it will find the edge of the solar system and get into interstellar space. More …
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With last week’s announcement that the British government thwarted an alleged terrorist attack planned for flights from the U.K. to the U.S., news that travelers are required to check their laptops as baggage on some flights has raised a new level of panic as they try to figure out the best way to protect their laptops. More …
What about your iPod or your Newton?
digit compares the Xeon 5100 architecture (used in Mac Pros) to the AMD Opteron 2000 series.
The results show that Intel has reclaimed its crown in a majestical fashion. The Xeon 5150s were 35 per cent faster in Maya software renderer and 16 per cent faster in mental ray than the Opteron 2218s. Intel’s chips also gave an 18 per cent boost to Photoshop over AMD’s rival. The performance over the Power PC G5s was equally impressive. The 5150’s Maya software rendering time was a whopping 90 per cent faster, and its mental ray score was 32 per cent faster. It was also 27 per cent faster in Photoshop - though this is not something you could translate to the new Mac Pros as an Intel-native version of Photoshop is still at least six months away. More …
Apple has released a dot-update of its popular dual-boot software, Boot Camp 1.1b.
Features in this release are said to include:
• Support for the latest Intel-based Macintosh computers
• Easier partitioning using presets for popular sizes
• Ability to install Windows XP on any internal disk
• iSight camera support
• Support for built-in mics
• Right-click when pressing the right-hand Apple key on Apple keyboards
• Improved Apple keyboard support including Delete, PrintScreen, NumLock, and ScrollLock keys
Apple’s RAM Expansion developer note has important information:
Warning: The computer must be turned off and unplugged before RAM modules are removed or inserted. Note that power is supplied to the computer in sleep mode.
RAM Expansion Product-Specific Details includes a Mac Pro section