Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
DIY Mac Mini Server Clone
Apple just released the awesome Mac Mini Server for $999. Pretty cool! Unless you want to - you know - add more drives. Aside from that, it’s actually a pretty reasonable deal: Snow Leopard Server retails for $499 by itself (with unlimited client licenses), so you’re really getting a Mac Mini with a pair of [...]
Oh man, I think I’m in love
I spotted this beast on Engadget today:
The specs are incredible:
NZXT Rogue case featuring four 3.5″ bays, dual 5.25″ bays, and a 1000w PSU, three 120mm fans (and room for 2 more fans!)
Asus Rampage II GENE MicroATX motherboard
Core i7 Processor (options include the 920, 940, and 965 Extreme)
Up to 24GB RAM
Up to 2 dual-slot Video Cards
Starts [...]
I’m Too Sexy for my iMac
Shuttle has gotten official with the X50, due out at the end of March ‘09 (this month, people!).
Features:
Dual-core 1.6ghz Atom 330 CPU
1GB RAM
15.6″ 1366×768 Touchscreen LCD
Intel GMA950 GPU with VGA output
160GB Hard Drive
1.3mp Webcam with Mic and built-in Speakers
5 USB 2.0 ports
802.11n
$499
What we don’t know:
Bluetooth?
Is the 802.11n card compatible with OS X?
How easy is it [...]
New iPod Shuffle
Pimp your Mini
Well, you’ve got your shiny new Mac Mini - time to upgrade!
Hard Drive Upgrades:
The hard drive is a standard 9.5mm 2.5″ SATA drive, which can accomodate both hard drives and solid-state drives. The largest and fastest available is the Seagate 500gb 7200rpm drive at $140, although the ratings are not so good - reviewers say [...]
The Mac is Dead, long live the Mac
Apple recently updated the ever-popular Mac Mini, complete with 5 USB ports, dual video ports, a Firewire 800 port, and a 9400m GPU. It can now use up to 4 gigs of RAM and sports newer 25-watt Core 2 Duo chips at 2.0 and 2.26ghz. Oh…and the CPU is soldered on. Yup. No more extreme [...]
Waiting for the World to Change
Okay, I’m really just waiting on the ION. A few more months and good things happen…
Beef up your Macbook
Need a terabyte inside your laptop? Okay!
MCE Technologies has updated their Optibay line of products, which replaces the DVD drive inside your Macbook with an enclosure containing a secondary hard drive. That means you can put a 500gb drive in as a boot drive, plus another 500gb drive in place of the optical drive. 1TB, [...]
A Breath of Fresh Air
MSI has unveiled two new Xslim laptops: the 13.4″ X340 and the 15.6″ X600. The X340 is rumored to debut between $699 and $999, which is a huge gap from the Apple Air, which starts at $1799. Ouch! Hopefully these beasts will be offered with the ION platform in coming years. Both feature HDMI & [...]
$1,000 Hackintosh Recipe
Noodling around Newegg today and thought I’d share a foolproof Hackintosh recipe:
Coolermaster 690 Case
(2) 120mm Scythe 20dB case fans
610w PC Power & Cooling power supply
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard
2.4ghz Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad processor
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 CPU Cooler
Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste
(4) 2gb G.Skill DDR2-800mhz memory sticks
(2) Samsung F1 1TB hard drives
20x Lite-on DVD burner [...]