Despite some recent contraction in the PC market due to the competition by USB 2.0, Firewire (1394) has been gaining support and should continue to do so in the near future, according to a report from InStat. Growth continues in the Consumer Electronics areas, including digital TV, and DVRs …

eWeek claims (in this article) that it is code-named Antares. IBM will likely call it the 970MP, but in the end, it's like two, two, two chips in one. Taking a page from the book of the bigger brothers to the 970, the Power4, IBM appears to be planning on …

Infoworld's Tom Yager reviews G5 XServe and Opteron servers in comparison to the Intel Xeon offerings. Not surprisingly, the Mac receives high marks for its extraordinary I/O capabilities and the Opteron for its RAM access speeds. No matter how you slice it, it's not coming up Xeon.

Startup company, OQO is showing off their OQO Model 01 hand-held computer. It's a bit larger than an iPod and weighs 14 oz., but runs full-fledged Windows XP on a 1GHz Transmeta CPU with a 20GB hard drive and 256MB of RAM. The machine also packs Bluetooth, WiFi (802.11b …

As the folks at Ars Technica explain, it's only one week, but for the week ending April 24,2004, AMD beat Intel in desktop CPU sales. Laptops are still the purview of Intel (81% or so), but losing the 60% desktop race still hurts.

The following is a very slightly edited account of Kurt's foray into using 64-bit Microsoft Windows with AMD's Athlon processors. Links to the software, hardware and drivers are scattered throughout. For those Mac users out there, this is a taste of what the PC-based 64-bit world is going to be …

An article from InfoWorld gives some preliminary information about Samsung's upcoming satellite TV-receiving telephone. The announcement from Samsung earlier this week indicates that they have created a single chip that will decode the satellite signals broadcast at 2.6GHz (as opposed to 12.2GHz to 12.7GHz used by DBS …

According to an article from MSFN (Microsoft Software Forum Network), Microsoft has announced the availability of a beta version of their 64-bit Windows operating system. Official information on the 64-bit Beta can be found on the Microsoft site. Requirements are: Athlon64 or Opteron Processor 256MB RAM 1.5GB Hard disk …

Atheros Communications, makers of WiFi chips, has announced a new single-chip WiFi solution implementing supports the 802.11g standard. There is quite a bit of buzz about this, due to the applications in consumer products and portable devices, where size and complexity are key factors. Did I mention they're scheduling …

The IBM PowerPC 970 (the chip called the G5 by Apple) has been out for about a year and has made many a Macintosh aficionado very happy with its performance. However, judging by the amount of air movement necessary (see the wicked-cool cooling in the G5) to keep the G5 …

For those who keep track of the graphics world, ExtremeTech has a new head-to-head review of the current crop of mobile GPUs. The ATI Mobility 9600 came out on top. For mac aficionados, that means you're in good shape if you have the most recent PowerBook G4 15" or 17 …

An article from Extreme Tech announces Sharp's new RD3D notebook that has a 3D display. According to the press release on Sharp3D.com, the system uses a parallax barrier to direct different images to the left and right eyes (eliminating the need for glasses or other devices usually used to …

The race is on! Apple has just sent me an email indicating that they shipped my G5 on Friday for delivery on Monday. But, the real question is: will there by power when the PowerPC arrives?

A thread on ArsTechnica places the Dual 2.0GHz G5 in the number one spot of tested machines running Adobe PhotoShop with a combined score of 547. This beats out its nearest competitor, the Dual Xeon 3GHz with a score of 488 and an 3.2GHz (800Mhz bus) Pentium 4 …

They have seen Apple's PowerBooks and they are good. According to benchmarks from barefeats, the new PowerBooks are beating the old ones in performance, despite the removal of the Level 3 cache. I won't go into everything, but the new video chip (ATI Radeon 9600) makes a huge difference in …

In the first test that I've seen involving fluid dynamics simulations, xlr8yourmac has published a benchmark done by a knowledgeable user who has used the top of the line Fortran compilers and compared single-processor G4, G5, Itanium, Xeon, and Cray X1 processors. The G5 starts out a little weak (beating …

To a crowd of happy Apple enthusiasts in Paris, Steve Jobs announced revisions to the PowerBook line of G4 portable Macintosh computers. In addition, Apple has released a wireless keyboard and mouse using Bluetooth technology. The key changes in the PowerBook line are centered around the popular 15" model, which …

Apple has announced this morning that it is moving the iMacs to 1GHz (15") and 1.25GHz (17"), that it has revamped the video processors (moving the 17" to the new GeForce FX 5200) and that it has added USB 2.0 to the cadre of features on the system …

In what is probably bad news for Apple (and certainly should have been obvious in the beginning), Microsoft has confirmed to MacWorld UK that the company's newly acquired PC emulation software is not compatible with Apple's new G5 computers due to a feature that doesn't exist in the CPU that …

An article from Wired reports that, thanks to new terrorist threats that the government has heard about, we'll all be waiting longer at the airports and that our laptops and other personal electronic devices are going to be subject to more intrusive testing. I searched the TSA website and couldn't …