Apple's original iMac, powered by a G3 processor, was announced on May 6, 1998. Priced at $1,299, It was an all-in-one computer that amazed the users with its iconic translucent Bondi Blue casing.
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IBM outs its latest POWER10 chips designed to drive hybrid cloud computing solutions. The company promises up to 20x improvement in select workloads, while also being more efficient.
JK Scheinberg - the Apple engineer who led the effort to move Mac OS to Intel PCs - applied for a job as an Apple Store Genius, after he retired from the company... but he never got the job.
A new rumor claims that production has begun on the CPU-GPU processor for Microsoft's next version of its Xbox game console. The chips are being made for game developer kits for the console.
A web site claims to have more information on what kind of hardware is inside Nintendo's upcoming Wii U game console which is scheduled to launch sometime in 2012.
It will hardly come as a surprise to many, but it appears Apple is finally calling time on PowerPC apps with OS X Lion. 9to5mac reports that Rosetta, the compatibility layer that allowed applications compiled for...
Today, Apple finally released the Universal Binary version of Aperture bringing the professional photo editing software native to Apple's newer Intel based machines. The new release is an actual update from the previous original...
As expected, Apple's online store as of Friday no longer lists the 17-inch 1.9GHz iMac G5 for sale. Last week it was reported that Apple had officially discontinued the model in the United States and...
Presenting at the Power Everywhere Forum 2005 in Japan, IBM today formally introduced a dual-core version of its PowerPC 970 (G5) processor, which could find its way into Apple Power Macs in the coming months....
With Apple and IBM going their separate ways, the PowerPC has questionable future development. It's the end of the PowerPC as we know it. But most everyone feels fine. Just one day...
IBM has formed an industry consortium chartered with opening up the process of building Power processors, as used in Macs. It's a move to open up its Power microprocessor architecture. The consortium is called Power.org....
Since Think Secrets July report on Antares, the forthcoming dual-core PowerPC 970MP processor, sources have provided Think Secret with additional notes regarding IBM's PowerPC development and the direction it might take Apple. The biggest news...
As we all know Apple dropped support for Motorola's desktop processors, and chose to use IBM's processors for its next generation desktop PCs. This action was viewed by some analyst as a final blow...
The IBM PowerPC® 970 CPUs are well-designed, high-performance chips that ship in millions of end-user systems under Apple Computers' Power Macintosh G5 moniker. These CPUs greatly lower the bar for 64-bit computing on the desktop...
IBM is wasting no time to be the first to offer dual-core processors. Already we know that Intel and AMD have plans to come out with their own dual-core processors though theirs production dates...
On a blog for the popular Mac emulation software (PearPC) co-author Sebastian Biallas has written of Stefan Weyergraf's death late yesterday evening. A tragic end to a young developer who proved that Mac emulation software...
With AMD and Intel fighting over the spot light for the best mobile processor one competitor is left out. That competitor is IBM, is IBM developing a mobile version of its PowerPC processor? ...
Around this time last year Steve Jobs said that there will be a 3Ghz PowerPC in twelve months. Twelve months later IBM's PowerPC is only up to 2.5Ghz. Though this isn't the speed...
IBM last night sold two of its PowerPC processor lines and a licence for the PowerPC instruction set to Applied Micro Circuits for $227m in cash and a renewed foundry commitment. The deal, announced last...
Motorola on Monday announced a faster PowerPC chip that could be used in speedier Apple Computer laptops. Motorola said it is now producing samples of a 1.42GHz PowerPC processor, a chip analysts...
Thanks Emon We're proud to announce the availability of the Gentoo for PowerPC G5 32-bit LiveCD. The LiveCD has been tested on a dual 2GHz G5 SMP...
Motorola is preparing a next-generation two-core G4-class PowerPC processor, the company will this week tell attendees of its annual Smart Networks Developer Conference, held in Disneyland Paris. The chip, as yet unnamed - at least...
Further details have emerged about IBM's next revision of its G3-class processor family, codenamed Gobi, but set to ship as the PowerPC 750GX. It will finally take the G3 family to 1GHz and beyond. ...
When is someone gonna port macosX to the Wintel? c'mon not a crappy system7, 8 or 9 emu, give me the works! - ED Ripped from The Reg in true unprofessional fashion,...
