Category: Kev’s Blog

The new Mac Pro desktop machine ships with 2x dual core Intel processors, which by itself really is a monster of a machine. Later this year though, Intel will be shipping quad-core Xeon and Core 2 processors. A pair of these in a dual processor machine like the Mac Pro will give you 8 cores. Yes, 8.

AnandTech have a review on their site where they obtained a pair of these new CPUs and installed them in a Mac Pro, and confirmed that yes, Mac OS X on a Mac Pro will recognize and run with 8 cores. Now that’s some horsepower.

Microsoft will be releasing it’s ‘Windows Live Search’ service, after more than a year of running it in beta.

The new search service will incorporate the ability to search websites, news, images, local information, and presents the results in a fashion remarkably similar to Google. In fact the front page looks like Google, the results are displayed like Google, the sponsored ads appear like Google, and they offer the similar abilitity to search for sites, images, local information, etc, … just like Google. Take a look at Microsoft’s ‘Google clone’ here…

Tivo are about to launch their latest ‘Series 3’ machines which are THX Certified, provide 2 tuners, and can record upto 32 hours of HD content, or 300 of standard resolution TV.

At $800, this box is clearly aimed at the high-end home theatre enthusiast.

news.com have a great article covering the history of the hard drive, since this week is the 50th anniversary since IBM introduced the first version. Back then the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) weighed 1 ton with 50 24″ platters, and stored just 5MB.

This year should be the first year we see 1TB drives introduced – this would lseem ike an impossibility to the first users of the RAMAC machine back then…