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Yet another iMac Core i7 with a screen that has broken glass
Cyril, a member of our macbidouille forums had, as other people in the world, a big disappointment when he unpacked his 27" iMac core i7 that he had waited for so long.  He also found the left bottom corner of the glass of the screen broken. Experts will certainly know better than ...
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Apple in olympic form in the US
NPD has published a study concerning the American retail market. Last October, the Mac office machines accounted for 47,71% of the revenue in this market segment and the Mac portables 34%. This miracle is possible thanks to the average costs of the Apple configurations, $1338$ for the Apple ...
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Did the 4,000 Stolen iPhones End in Russia?
Couple of  days ago , we reported how 4,000 iPhone have been stolen in belgium. Polices lost tracks of those units. According to Touchmyapps , those units are currently being activated/used in russia. They are sold to local distributors by pack of 100 units.  Customers might ...
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Intel Core i3 Clarkdale In Details
Below is the photo of an Intel desktop Core i3 CPU, also known as Clakdale, we talked about yesterday. On the same die, several components are packed together, the dual core CPU engraved at 32 nm, the smallest square on the photo; while the other one is the graphical unit. On will also ...
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Apple Store Black Friday
Let's go, the  Apple Store Black Friday  is now launched for about é" hours If there is no real amazing offer able to light a massive purchase of products, some customers will anyway enjoy some discounts, if any available.
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Competitive SSDs by 2011
The price of the SSD could make these disks able to fight with the traditional hard drives by 2011. The majority of the flash memory manufacturers aim to produce chips engraved in 20 nm this year. To illustrate the price drops produced by engraving more finely: Intel was able to divide by ...
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New Zealand Apple Store Black Friday: Details of the Offers
Thanks to Cyril  à Cyril to remind us that thanks to time zones, the Apple Store Black Friday is already running in New Zealand. The Offer are the following: As one should have expect it, nothing amazing. Apple offers around 8-10% on iMac, Apple TV and MacBook models, and ...
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First Test for the Forthcoming Intel 6-Core Xeon
The Polish website PCLab  released (by accident?), before quickly removing it, a test of the Intel Xeon Gulftown, a future CPU sporting 6 cores and engraved at 32 nm. First figures indicate that this CPU is very promising. At equivalent clock speed, it is 50% faster than the ...
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Rambus lose another battle against NVidia
Rambus has just lost another battle with NVidia.This business goes back to  last year  where Rambus started proceedings against NVidia accusing them of violating many of its patents (see all the history here ). Rather than to fight on the ground of its adversary, NVidia decided to ...
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Apple attacks a counterfeiter of the Magsafe
On Monday Apple deposited a complaint against a Californian company that offered on many sites copies of the MagSafe chargers.  As you can see it, the product is practically identical to that of Apple, including the magnetized connector. However, contrary to the connectors with which ...
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Blender 2.5 alpha 0 disponible au téléchargement!
Ca y est! Les premiers builds officiels de Blender 2.5 sont enfin disponible . Ce formidable studio 3D, qui couvre toutes les étapes nécessaires à la création de vrais films d'animation depuis la modélisation jusqu'au compositing en passant par l'animation et ...
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Final Cut Server Updated
Apple offers an update for Final Cut Server accessible directly from the Software Update panel. Additional information about Final Cut Server available from the dedicated website: http://www.apple.com/fr/finalcutserver/ .
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Good Deal on the Refurb Before the Black Friday
While waiting for the Apple Store Black Friday to start within less than 48 hours, the Refurb Store offers some interesting deal: If you plan going for an iMac, pay attention, some models with either the GF9400M or a dsicrete Radeon HD 2600 have the same price. You can get a MacBook Pro at ...
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Yet another diagnostic tool for the after-sales service of Apple
Here is a good moment: a change in the Apple after-sales service, something that we requested several times. To summarize things, Apple is providing to all its maintenance centers the software needed to diagnose breakdowns and to facilitate the resolution of it. In this series, we already have ...
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Intel: New 32-nm Desktop Core i3 and i5 Unveiled
Intel officially unveiled the list of new CPUs Core i3 and i5, engraved at 32-nm and dedicated to desktop computer. They all should be available in large volume in January 2010. There are different than the Core i5 found in the iMac. First, they only have 2 cores instead of four in the ...
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iMac Core i7: New Problems
After the first reported problem identified with iMac Core i7 (unstable and flashing display), a new issues are arising. Some users could not boot their iMac, the computer remained inactive, even though in some cases one could have heard the classical 'bong' before a definitive silence. Other ...
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iPhones Use 50% of the Worldwide 3G Mobile Network Traffic
A recent study conducted by AdMob indicates that iPhones capture 50% of the worldwide 3G network bandwidth. In addition, this figure keeps growing as it increased by 7 points during he last month. Other mobile phone OS are far behind, Symbian collecting 25% (-4% for the last month) and Android ...
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iPhoto update
An update for iPhoto is available: This update addresses issues affecting face recognition performance and accuracy. It also fixes minor issues in the areas of book ordering, and iPod touch support. The update is recommended for all users of iPhoto '09. For detailed information on this ...
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Attention: external USB disks from various constructors, continued
In October, we had spoken to you  about the disappointment of a reader of XLR8Yourmac after buying an external Western Digital hard drive, with the thought of swapping it with the internal disk in his machine.  The USB interface was integrated into the electronics of the disk, ...
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IBM to Drop the CELL?
According to the last news and tidbits, IBM might have decided to stop the development of its Cell CPU, a program initiated with Toshiba. If it is now present in servers and soon in TV, it became famous for being the CPU powering the Sony game station PS3, where it delivers amazing results. It ...
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