Apple Discussions thread highlights potential unibody problems
By Nick Spence 09 March 2009
An extended thread of the Apple Discussions forums suggests that the company's flagship laptop, the newly launched MacBook Pro 17in unibody model, may be suffering from defective Nvidia GeForce 9600 graphics processor chips. Cult of Mac reported of a potential link with similar issues affecting the MacBook Pro 15in using the Nvidia GeForce 9400 graphics processor chip, first highlighted in December. The 17in laptop's potential problems appear to be limited solely to the 9600M GPU, causing lines to appear across the screen. Over the weekend Apple Discussions forum users posted further reports of distorted graphics backed by detailed screen grabs. New MacBook Pro 17in owner, sluct, is typical of many users experiencing problems, especially when running demanding applications that require the 9600M GPU. "When running on the 9600M GPU in higher performance mode, recognizable purple/cyan vertical line artifacts, when CPU heats up about 80° Celsius. Power adapter is plugged in," explains sluct.
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Seagate throttles up to 6 Gbps throughput, with some help from AMD
Slated to start showing up in products later this year, the faster PC storage interface will support video, graphics, and gaming applications.
By Jacqueline Emigh March 9, 2009
At the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans today, Seagate and AMD are delivering the world's first public demo of 6 gigabit-per-second Serial ATA, an ultra-speedy interface between the host bus adapters used in PCs and storage drives such as hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and optical devices. A replacement for older and slower ATA technology, Serial ATA supported throughput of 1.5 Gbps in its first generation and operates at 3 Gbps in much of the hardware sold today, said Mark Noblitt, Seagate's senior marketing manager for I/O (input/output) development, in an interview with Betanews. "Customers want bigger drives to store more data, [and] more data needs a faster I/O," according to Noblitt. The Seagate exec foresees strong demand for 6 Gbps Serial ATA across both low-end servers and high-end PCs for applications such as streaming video graphics, and gaming.
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By Jacqueline Emigh March 9, 2009
At the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans today, Seagate and AMD are delivering the world's first public demo of 6 gigabit-per-second Serial ATA, an ultra-speedy interface between the host bus adapters used in PCs and storage drives such as hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and optical devices. A replacement for older and slower ATA technology, Serial ATA supported throughput of 1.5 Gbps in its first generation and operates at 3 Gbps in much of the hardware sold today, said Mark Noblitt, Seagate's senior marketing manager for I/O (input/output) development, in an interview with Betanews. "Customers want bigger drives to store more data, [and] more data needs a faster I/O," according to Noblitt. The Seagate exec foresees strong demand for 6 Gbps Serial ATA across both low-end servers and high-end PCs for applications such as streaming video graphics, and gaming.
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Sources confirm Apple laid off salespeople last week
by Tom Krazit March 9, 2009
Despite public statements to the contrary, Apple did lay off around 50 enterprise salespeople last week, CNET News has learned. Sources who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal confirmed reports by Valleywag and 9to5Mac.com that roughly 50 salespeople were let go by the company for "business and economic reasons," according to one source. An entire sales group based in Austin, Texas was let go as well as workers in Cupertino, California, where Apple is headquartered. Those affected were given severance packages and the opportunity to apply for other jobs inside Apple. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling, when asked last Tuesday about Valleywag's report regarding the layoffs in the sales group, declined to comment.
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Despite public statements to the contrary, Apple did lay off around 50 enterprise salespeople last week, CNET News has learned. Sources who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal confirmed reports by Valleywag and 9to5Mac.com that roughly 50 salespeople were let go by the company for "business and economic reasons," according to one source. An entire sales group based in Austin, Texas was let go as well as workers in Cupertino, California, where Apple is headquartered. Those affected were given severance packages and the opportunity to apply for other jobs inside Apple. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling, when asked last Tuesday about Valleywag's report regarding the layoffs in the sales group, declined to comment.
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AMD Unveils ATI FirePro 2450 Graphics Card
New pro graphics card supports quad 1920 x 1200 LCDs
By Shane McGlaun - March 9, 2009
AMD has announced its latest professional ATI video card called the ATI FirePro 2450 multi-view. The card is a low profile, half-length graphics card that offers support for four monitors. The video card can support four different DVI or VGA monitors via dual VHDCI connectors and included breakout cables and adapters. The card has a total of 512MB of GDDR3 memory and is a native PCI Express x16 unit. Support for DirectX 10.1 and PCI Express 2.0 is built-in. ATI says that the card consumes a maximum of 32W at full load and an average of 17W for 2D business usage. The quad monitors can be ran at a resolution of 1920 x 1200 each, making native 24-inch LCD resolution possible.
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By Shane McGlaun - March 9, 2009
AMD has announced its latest professional ATI video card called the ATI FirePro 2450 multi-view. The card is a low profile, half-length graphics card that offers support for four monitors. The video card can support four different DVI or VGA monitors via dual VHDCI connectors and included breakout cables and adapters. The card has a total of 512MB of GDDR3 memory and is a native PCI Express x16 unit. Support for DirectX 10.1 and PCI Express 2.0 is built-in. ATI says that the card consumes a maximum of 32W at full load and an average of 17W for 2D business usage. The quad monitors can be ran at a resolution of 1920 x 1200 each, making native 24-inch LCD resolution possible.
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