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Tuesday Afternoon
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(link) Tuesday, 27-April-2010 17:33:56 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The Gizmodo iPhone 4 leak story has taken a more serious twist, with Police raiding the editor's home and seizing equipment. This is interesting because it's apparently against the law to do that to journalists in the USA. More info on Gizmodo themselves.
PCAuthority report that the Core i7 CPU in a Macbook Pro they're testing hit 100C and higher. This loaded the CPU pretty seriously, and the 50 degree Celsius idle temperature of the Core i7 rocketed up to 84 degrees within the space of minutes. As this happened the Macbook's exterior began to heat as well, starting at the underside near the hinge where the CPU sits, and eventually spreading until the left side of the laptop was uncomfortably warm, and the underside was almost too hot to touch. It'll be interesting to see if this is a one-off or if they all do it.
AMD's most recent workstation video card was the FirePro V8800, but now there's two more budget-focussed siblings, the V5800 and V3800. Coverage on PC Perspective and Phoronix, while PC Perspective also looked at the FirePro 2460. By using mini-DisplayPort connections the FirePro 2460 Multi-View can support running four monitors at a time in half-height mode using only 13 watts of power!
PC Perspective also report on NVIDIA's mobile driver with 3D. This means that all you need to access 3D gaming (or 3D Blu-ray or other 3D content) is a 3D-ready TV, this NVIDIA 3DTV Play software and a compatible NVIDIA GPU. This is crucial as it means you will be utilizing not NVIDIA's own 3D Vision glasses, but the technology required and provided by your display, whether that is active or passive designs.
Enigma spotted that Windows Home Server "Vail" Beta is available for downloading. Microsoft have indicated that they have moved their new underlying server platform that will only run as a 64-bit OS hence running Vail on a 32-bit PC is not recommended.
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