Friday, September 21, 2007

OS X86

Been tinkering with so called OS X86 for a while now. Besides my 2 laptops this is my main interest, making my PC run OS X flawlessly but not a cheap Mac replacement but rather as e tech experiment. SO far everything works except the Quartz Extreme on my Radeon X800GTO. For more info and I bet that this will lead you toward getting a Mac is on www.insanelymac.com where you can find tons of info about the latest Mac news. Google OS X86 wiki for hardware info.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

1st entry: Barcelona arrives


Finally, after so many months of delays Barcelona is among us. So far, preliminary benchmarks are up and interesting facts are cropping up. AMD as always has great ideas but given the current financial outlook it is hard to see them getting profitable quickly which they need to urgently, otherwise....
Four cores pumping
variable clock rates in order to save energy and innovative bus technology will give it definitive advantage over current dual core Opterons but Xeon will likely regain performance crown in November when Intel moves to 45nm Penryn core. One thing I know: I'd like to have a couple of these babies revving in my box. :)