Apple and Intel weren't kidding about "low power"
Tom
Yager over at InfoWorld has performed some power tests on
a 20" Dual Core iMac to discover that these machines in fact do not meet Apple's bold low-power specs -
they surpass them. Apple lists the maximum power consumption of a 20" Dual Core iMac at 120 watts, while Tom's tests - even with both 2.0 GHz cores maxed at 100% CPU usage, 1 GB RAM, WiFi, BT, 128 MB graphics card and (oh yea) a 20" LCD - found the iMac drawing a steady 95 watts of power. Assuming that the typical LCD draws around 32 watts of power alone, that means the iMac - even at full throttle - is running as 63 watt personal computer. By comparison, Intel's old Pentium 4 architecture that still ships in many computers needs anywhere from 300-400 watt power supplies - and that's just for the computer itself, sans-display. I should know, I used to build them for a living.
Ultimately, this should boil down to great news for the computing industry. Tom Yager's even so excited about the results that he's issued a friendly challenge to the PC market to find a machine that can claim the same stats. The one question that still bothers me about these new chips, however: why hasn't Apple placed at least an estimated battery life rating on the MacBook Pro?
[via MacSlash]
Last week Dan 
So you
purchased a new Intel-based iMac and now you want to upgrade its RAM? Well don't worry about it. 
Uh oh. It
appears that in the first twenty days of launching the Intel Dual Core chip in Apple's iMac, 
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