A screenshot of the Snow Leopard system requirements has shown up online and includes the following:
An Intel Processor
An internal, external, or shared DVD drive
At least 512MB of RAM
A built-in display or a display connected to an Apple-supplied video card supported by your computer
At least 9GB of disk space available, or 12GB of disk space if [...]
In case you haven’t heard already Nvidia is planning to get into the CPU market and word recently came out saying that they would actually have two lines of CPUs that should be coming out on or shortly after June 3rd.
No one at the Inquirer was actually invited to this week’s reviewers day which means [...]
Intel would be proud that their 8-core platform has been overclocked to 6GHz by some overclockers on XtremeSystems forum.
All I can say is, wow! Those 8-cores at 6GHz gives you a total of 48GHz of processing power.
XtremeSystems
AMD has announced new 45-Watt energy efficient processors.
AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 2.3GHz priced at $104
AMD Athlon LE-1620 2.4GHz priced at $53
AMD Athlon LE-1600 2.2GHz priced at $47
AMD Sempron LE-1250 2.2GHz priced at $53
AMD Sempron LE-1200 2.1GHz priced at $48
AMD Sempron LE-1100 1.9GHz priced at $37
(pricing in 1,000 units for processor-in-box)
I think that this along with [...]
AMD is planning to launch a three-core processor family in the first quarter of next year. The processors will be 65nm Agena based processors with one of the 4 cores disabled. There will be two models at launch, Phenom 7700 clocked at 2.5GHz with 512KB of L2 cache per core and 2MB of L3 cache, [...]
AMD must be feeling quite a bit of pressure from Intel and have decided to cut prices of their desktop CPUs again. The price cuts are between 5-28% depending on the model.
Here is a rundown of the new pricing (for 1000-unit tray quantities)
$220 - Athlon 64 X2 6400+
$167 - Athlon 64 X2 6000+
$146 - Athlon [...]
AMD has launched there second “Black Edition” processor, the Athlon 64 X2 5000+. The processor is quite a bit cheaper then the 6400+ Black Edition processor that launched last month, it is priced at $136 in distributor-volume 1,000-unit quantities.
This is the first processor in its class shipped by AMD that has a customizable clock multiplier, [...]
Intel and AMD both seem to be evolving pretty well, with faster processors coming out every few months. The latest high end laptop processor from Intel was spotted by Techware Labs, they were able to throw it in a computer and do some bookmarks on it.
This isn’t that interesting, we all know what to expect, [...]
