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NVIDIA unveils $1800 Quadro FX 4800 card for Apple’s Mac Pro

Filling a void for a true professional video card on the Mac platform, NVIDIA on Monday announced plans to begin shipping its Quadro FX 4800 ultra-high-end solution for the Mac Pro next month.
The $1800 card boasts 192 parallel processor cores and a massive 1.5GB frame buffer with memory bandwidth of up to 76.8 GB/sec. NVIDIA [...]

Two possible dates for Apple’s WWDC 2009 emerge

Event bookings for the San Francisco Moscone Center indicate that Apple may be planning its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in either mid-May or early June.
Companies book the Moscone Center venue many months in advance, with Sun’s Java One, Cisco Live!, Linux World, Oracle OpenWorld, and other events already planned for just about every free week [...]

A-DATA 2.5-inch 512GB XPG SSD eyes-on

Although it’s not the first 512GB 2.5-inch SSD we’ve heard of, A-DATA’s latest solid state drive is still in a rare class. We stopped by its booth today to see if the unit was on hand for CeBIT, and sure enough, there she was. We took a few shots and put ‘em down below — [...]

Benchmarks of 2009 iMacs, Mac minis show negligible speed-ups!

Although Apple is touting the performance of its new iMac and Mac mini desktops, a new test shows that newer processors from Intel have had little impact on the computers’ true speed.

Benchmarks run by Primate Labs through its own Geekbench test suite have confirmed that any benefit from the updated Core 2 Duo processors comes [...]

The Apple Tax has a lot more punch in Canada – Why do we pay so much?

At 9 to 5 Mac Canada we have to admit we’re still a little giddy about the whole release yesterday.  New hardware makes us… well lets just say overly excited.  So now we’re coming down from the high (Canadian Beer is a lot stonger the American stuff) – and although we’re excited about the tech [...]

March 24 Apple Event – Now What? Site Down!?

The internets spilled forth a juicy rumor this week that Apple was planning on having an event on March 24. With the Mac releases yesterday, we’re pretty sure if the event happens, it won’t be about them. So what will the rumored event bring us? Let the speculation commence!

I love an Apple event as much [...]

Mac mini – Apple Store (Canada)

Select your Mac mini.

2.0GHz : 120GB

2.0GHz : 320GB

2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

1GB memory

2GB memory

120GB hard drive1

320GB hard drive1

8x double-layer SuperDrive

8x double-layer SuperDrive

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics

Ships: Within 24hrs

Ships: Within 24hrs

Free Shipping

Free [...]

iMac – Apple Store (Canada)

Select your iMac.

20-inch: 2.66GHz

24-inch: 2.66GHz

24-inch: 2.93GHz

24-inch: 3.06GHz

2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2GB memory

4GB memory

4GB memory

4GB memory

320GB hard drive1

640GB hard drive1

640GB hard drive1

1TB hard drive1

8x double-layer SuperDrive

8x double-layer SuperDrive

8x double-layer SuperDrive

8x double-layer SuperDrive

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 256MB memory

NVIDIA [...]

Apple Store is down | 9 to 5 Mac

Looks like today is the day.

The bad news: No event means nothing revolutionary, just upgrades.
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New Mac Pro Specs?

Engadget’s anonymous tipster threw out these specs on the soon to be new Mac Pro
The Mac Pro will come in eight-core configurations from 3.0GHz to 3.6GHz and 16-core configurations in 3.6GHz and 4.0GHz flavors, and it sounds like it’s going to be even funkier on the video tip — our tipster says it has two [...]