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Rumor Mill: Mac Pro in new enclosure at WWDC

by Dan Lurie (Jul 5th, 2006)

ThinkSecret is saying that Apple will announce the Mac Pro and a newly designed enclosure at its World Wide Developers Conference next month. The Mac Pro is the rumored name of the Intel machines that will replace the PowerMac G5's. According to the rumor site, the new Mac Pro's will come in ...

A simpler process for creating a bootable PPC and Intel drive

by David Chartier (Jun 20th, 2006)

A reader of macosxhints.com has posted another method for creating a bootable drive that is friendly to both PowerPC and Intel Macs. While it's a twelve-step process, macosxhints.com has called it 'simpler', so who are we to argue? If you've been hankering for a way to create a bootable drive that ...

Who needs an Intel Mac? Sign me up for a PowerPC G6 Macintosh

by David Chartier (May 12th, 2006)

Intel Macs are so yesterday. I'm all about the "PowerPC G6 Macintosh," and it's only $499 to boot! Engadget found a company (who might have already been threatened/litigated out of existence by the time you read this) by the name of Red PC who is selling a computer they call the "PowerPC G6 ...

Camino 1.0.1 with security, Java, Keychain updates

by David Chartier (May 3rd, 2006)

Hot on the heels of Firefox releasing a 1.5.0.3 security update, Camino has been bumped to 1.0.1 with mostly security and bug fixes which include: Fixed several critical security issues, including those fixed in version 1.8.0.3 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine. Upgraded the bundled Java ...

1.7GHz Powerbook G4s before the Intel Switch?

by C.K. Sample, III (Jun 21st, 2005)

File this under: Rumor / I doubt it. Tom's Hardware is reporting that Freescale Semiconductor, the people behind the chips in the current line of PowerBooks, began showing off the MPC7448, their latest high-performance PowerPC processor, which is "expected to offer speeds from 600 MHz to 1.7 ...