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 | The new processor delivers up to 50% more performance than the previous 20-inch iMac. It also doubles the amount of L2 cache, the twin cores sharing 4MB between them.
Old iMac ran a 2.00 GHz Intel Core Duo, which is the same as Mac Book Pro which came out in May. New Merom chip in Mac Book Pro which is annouced on September 12th?
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| Intel Core - 32 bit - each have their own bank of cache
Intel Core 2 - 64 bit - share cache
Intel Dual-Core Xeon - 64 bit - share cache
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Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800
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2.93GHz |
4MB |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
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2.66GHz |
4MB |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
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2.40GHz |
4MB |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
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2.13GHz |
2MB |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
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1.86GHz |
2MB |
Note - the X in the code denotes eXtreme. A hot desktop chip.
My bet is Apple will release a MacBook Pro with either 2.13, 2.40 or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo chips. But as Apple seem to add 0.03 to CPU speeds that will probably read 2.16, 2.43 and 2.69!
Mac Book Pro 1.83 & 2.00 GHz Intel Core Duo 10/1/06
iMac 1.83 & 2.00 GHz Intel Core Duo 10/1/06
Mac mini 1.5 GHz Intel Core Solo 28/2/06
Mac mini 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo 28/2/06
Mac Book Pro 17" 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo 24/4/06
Mac Book 1.83 & 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo 16/5/06
Mac Book Pro 2.00 & 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo 16/5/06
Mac Pro 2 x 2.0/2,66/3.0 GHz Intel Dual-Core Intel Xeon 7/8/06
Mac mini 1.66 & 1.83 GHz Intel Dual-Core 6/9/06
iMac 1.83/2.0/2.16 Intel Core 2 Duo 6/9/06
Apple seem to have added a made up 0.03GHz addition
1. Intel Core Solo - Codename Yonah - Mobile, Intel Core Duo - Codename Yonah - Mobile
2. Intel Dual-Core Xeon - Codename Woodcrest - 2 Xeon Chips in every CPU - Server
3. Intel Core 2 Duo - Codename Merom - Mobile
Merom outruns Yonah
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/08/01/first_core-2_duo_benchmarks/
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£1,349.01
(£1,148.09 ex VAT)
24-inch widescreen LCD
1920x1200 resolution
2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor1
4MB shared L2 cache
1GB memory (2x512MB SO-DIMM)
250GB Serial ATA hard drive2
8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL, DVD±RW, CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT with 128MB GDDR3 memory
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0
Apple Remote
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| And iMac delivers a beautifully bright display with the new 24-inch model lighting the way. In fact, it’s a full 40% brighter than the 20-inch model.
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| Apple annoucements on September 12th
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| Apple today confirmed that it will hold a special event on Tuesday, September 12th at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, California. An invitation sent to select media reads simply, "It's Showtime."
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| 1.My bet is Apple will release a MacBook Pro with either 2.13, 2.40 or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo chips.
But as Apple seem to add 0.03 to CPU speeds that will probably read 2.16, 2.43 and 2.69!
2. Films via iTunes (US only).
3. New iPod Movie, with wi-fi, bigger screen and in-built speaker.
4. Updated other iPod range.
Wi-fi in existing models except Shuffle. Bigger hard disks/memory all round.
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| Apple Computer Inc. named Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt to its board of directors Tuesday, creating a high-profile link between two of Silicon Valley's most prized companies as they try to expand their recent successes and topple Microsoft Corp.
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| Buy Woz's House for 10 Million!
Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak has one of the most unique houses in an exclusive area of Los Gatos in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 7,100-sq foot house has 6 bedrooms and 7.5 baths and seems relatively normal when viewed from the outside, although the interior is beyond unique, having recently been completely overhauled by developer Larry Willard and architects Avi Agasi and Amnon Levy. The house is gorgeously appointed, with spa-like bathrooms, huge decks and a built in espresso machine and wet bar. On top of its more standard features, it also boasts a children's discovery complex, an arcade, a cave (designed to look real by experts from the California Academy of Sciences ) and a pet hotel. Almost all of the materials used in the house are organic, as opposed to man-made, with curving lines throughout and lots of skylights to maximize the amount of movement in the house. The asking price is $10 million.
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| Beef back in Bovril.
Three years after Unilever decided to tamper with Bovril, we’re pleased to say that it’s back to normal.
Following the ban on British beef, Bovril saw its key ingredient of beef stock replaced by a savoury yeast mix. Mmm. Yummy.
Only it wasn’t. The vegetarian-friendly version never took off – go figure – and now, following the revived confidence in UK cow meat, they’ve gone back to beef.
“I’m sure Bovril fans around the world will be 100 per cent behind this,” said a Unilever spokesman.
It’s the latest step in a long, strange journey for the product. It was invented in the 1880s by Scotsman John Lawson Johnston and was originally called Johnston’s Fluid Beef. From there, it became popular across the UK, particularly with football fans looking for a half-time warmer.
An incredible three million jars of Bovril are sold each year, particularly in the Far East. In Malaysia, it’s even used to flavour porridge.
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| Taking a screenshot, either full-screen (shift+command+3) or a selection of the screen (shift+command+4).
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| Previous British Mac tutorials unavailable till The British Mac Annual - out Christmas!
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| Chris says: Many thanks to Mike Bradbrook for the excellent Skype tutorial – after using Skype for almost a year I didn’t know there was so much about it I didn’t know!
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| Bringing wiki to the Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard. You can think of it as StickyNotes on steroids, or a digital Moleskine notebook. Create notes, search for them, and link notes together automatically.
Winner of the first Apple Dashboard Widget Contest:
WikityWidget is a personal notepad with automatic linking. Using a simple notebook-style interface, WikityWidget lets you easily jot down and organize notes with hypertext links so they’re easy to find and instantly available via the Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard. It applies Wiki technology in a new and interesting way on the Mac and demonstrates the powerful potential of widgets to leverage technologies in Tiger.
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| Mikes comments:
Re the webcam that watched the Cambridge University coffee pot. Saw more about it on BBC's Click television show today. It was switched off on the morning of Wednesday 22nd August, 2001 because the lab was moved to a different building. The coffee pot was sold on ebay for over £3,000!
Check out Mike's comments from older podcasts, you can also add your own!
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| Graham J Lee - a visitor in the Mac & Mouse. Graham kindly sent me Next for Intel, which will feature in a future special edition.
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| It's Wayne from Chester, New England. Just listened to your last show, great as always! The question was putting mp3's together, and yes, it can be easily done by going to http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/. They have every possible script for doing everything in iTunes
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| Joe & Jimbo from the Toxamic Clown's Video Podcast
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| I bought this off a bloke in the pub - Apple Newton 2100.
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| Download entire unna.org catalogue now with BitTorrent
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| Any Newton users out there? Would you like me to do a regular Newton spot?
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| Great Newton Book called Killed Newton
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| Annoys me when people say Apple invented the PDA.
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| Psion invented the PDA in 1983, introduced the ground breaking Series 3 in 1991, and the wonderful Series 5 in 1997.
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| Newton first came out in 1993 (ten years after the Psion) and Apple's last in 1997.
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| A beach hut is a small, usually wooden, building above the high tide mark on popular bathing beaches. Beach huts are used for changing into and out of swimming costumes and to provide a base for informal family recreation. Some beach huts have some simple equipment to prepare food and hot drinks.
At many seaside resorts, beach huts are arranged in one or more ranks along the top of the beach. Depending upon the location, beach huts may be owned privately or may be owned by the local council or similar administrative body. On popular beaches, privately owned beach huts can command substantial prices, out of all proportion to their size and amenity.
There are believed to be around 20,000 beach huts in the UK
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| Hi mate!
I have to add my vote of support to the Flanders and Swan bid to get them onto British Icon. I know it would mean a lot to their supporters the world over if such an important British institution such as British Mac recognized their lifetimes of achievement. Perhaps the introduction of a British Mac Lifetime Achievement Award is in order?!
Joseph
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| The British - by Bill Bryson
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