TUAW’s Holiday Gift Guide: Which Mac should you buy?
When you're an alpha Mac geek, you can expect a common Christmas greeting from friends and relatives each and every year. It goes something like this: "My son/daughter/mom/dad/wife wants a new Mac for Christmas -- what should I get them?"
When I hear ...
NVIDIA offers Fermi-packing Quadro 4000 to the Mac Pro user
In case you missed it, a couple days ago NVIDIA outed the Fermi Quadro 4000 Mac Edition video card for Mac Pro users. The card packs a punch with 256 CUDA cores, a 256-bit memory interface and 2GBs of memory (I remember the day I got excited by a video...
When is a 1.4GHz Mac faster than a 2.66GHz Mac?
Apple’s newest revision of the MacBook Air has a secret weapon packed into its tiny little frame. Rather than the pokey 4200rpm hard drive its predecessors ran on, the new MacBook Airs are sporting the latest buzz-inducing hardware in high-speed data...
AMD Fusion Coming To iMacs and Mac Pros?
Hardware Upgrade reports that AMD showed a couple of slides yesterday during the 2010 Financial Analyst Day which suggest that Apple might be included as a partner for future AMD Fusion releases. In the slides (which you can see below, or jump to the full presentation here) iMacs and Mac Pros are the Apple computers...
Xserve Is Dead…Now What?
Xserve Is Dead…Now What? The Mac Pro is a great box, but it is not designed to be a server. That matters. The Mac Pro, in trying to equal the Xserve takes up 12 times the space, uses more power, and ends up costing you twice as much if you don’t want a single component...
Mac Pro server config added to product lineup
Shortly after announcing the end of the Xserve, Apple has added Mac Pro server configuration in its place. The new machine features a single 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Xeon 'Nehalem' processor, 8GB (4 x 2GB) of DDR3 ECC SDRAM, a pair of 1TB (7200RPM) hard ...
Apple Discontinues Xserve, Mac Pro Server Goes Live
As MacGeneration notes, with a note on its website Apple announced Xserve will be discontinued and will only be available until January 31st. The note links to a PDF available here called “Xserve Transition Guide”. Apple will not be developing a future version of Xserve. Xserve will be available for order through January 31, 2011....
Xserve Line WIll Be Discontinued Starting January 31st, 2011
If you’re a network administrator in love with the svelte, stackable design of Apple’s Xserve line, you’d better stock up: Apple has announced that they will be discontinuing the Xserve line starting January 31st, 2011. In an uncharacteristically blunt announcement of future plans, Cupertino has...LaCie offers USB 3.0 to Mac users
Cupertino may not be ready to offer us USB 3.0 quite yet, but LaCie is. The company has announced the availability of both the USB 3.0 PCI Express Card and the USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 with Mac compatibility.
To get things working, just install the fre...
Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.5 released
Apple has released EFI Firmware Update 1.5 for the Mac Pro. The update is recommended for all Mac Pro (Mid 2010) models and addresses an issue that prevented the firmware password prompt from being displayed as well as another issue that prevented the ...
More Installation Videos Popping Up.
It’s sure been a while since we talked about our OWC Instructional Series of videos. That doesn’t mean we’re not still cranking them out, though. In fact, we just put a couple more up today. Now, with the help of our highly-acclaimed series of vi...
Did Apple sell 4 million Macs?
Back-to-school sales and a refreshed desktop line may have pushed it over the edge The iPad's been getting a lot more buzz lately, but Apple's (AAPL) computer line is still the company's No. 2 source of revenue (after the iPhone) -- a point likely to be driven home again when Apple reports its fiscal fourth...
