Posts Tagged ‘Upcoming Technology’

Vlad Savov over at Engadget just covered this story: Apple is updating their most power desktop this August. Rumors have been flying the last couple of months and (thank God) Apple has just verified them. So sometime in August you’ll be able to buy a dual-core CPU with 12 cores! The CPU will be the Intel which will run up to 3.33 GHz speeds (which can be Turbo boosted to 3.6 GHz), depending on the model chosen. The quad-core models are prices at $2,499 and eight-core machines will cost $3,499.

The most notable upgrade is the Radeon HD 5770 graphics card. You can pair these cards together for up to 1GB HD if you thirst for high frame rates. You can buy a machine that comes with up to 32GB of RAM, 4TB of conventional HDD storage, or an array of four 512GB SSDs. We’ll have to wait awhile for SSD drives to drop in price before seriously considering that option! Read the rest of this entry »

I have a 30 minute commute to work. While driving to and fro I often listen to NPR. One of my favorite is their All Tech Considered show that’s on the air 7:30am on Mondays.  I just heard this NPR article about last weeks Apple News. Apparently as of May 3 Apple has sold a startling One Million iPads! This happened in only the first 28 days! They indicated that now 1 out of 300 Americans own the iPad and are showing it off to their friends. Now Apple’s App store has 12 million apps versus the 1 million they had at the April launch. These stats are incredible. It’s obvious that the iPad is taking off. The wildest thing that struck me is that this data only refers to the WiFi versions of the iPad; the 3G version was just released this past Friday. Read the rest of this entry »