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Archive for November, 2009

In the line growing demand, Apple’s iMac stands in the row. The Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard boots up in around 30 seconds, a very stable platform that performs multitasks effortlessly without worrying that might slow down the computer. It makes not to bother about viruses or spy ware. Printers, External hard-disk, cameras just work with Mac most of the times without the need of installing any drivers. Leopard also has the features Quick View where the documents, presentation, excel sheets, PDF, pictures & videos, etc can be viewed even without opening it and the Cover flow mode which allows viewing the documents / folders. Removing an application is as simple as just dragging it to the trash, not requiring un-installers or registries. As its entire computing (CPU) is behind the screen, promotes great look and saves lot of space. The speakers are integrated in the chin of the i Mac sounds decent and entire i Mac has just one screw to add or remove the memory. A single sheet of aluminum carved keyboard is very slim and also has 2 USB slots, one connects to the mouse while the other to plug-in memory sticks, phones, etc. The mighty mouse bundled with i Mac has just one button and a track wheel, can work like a dual button mouse as it has sensors that can detect the right click. There’s an infrared remote via which you can control i Tunes. The Apple i Mac configuration is pretty powerful that makes experience so tantalizing and once gets used with this, it’s so hard to get back to Windows world.

The New Sony PlayStation 3 consoles known to be engaged with hardcore gaming enthusiasts but now plays a big part to the Scientists of Stanford University for their project to understand a complicated biological process called “protein folding.” This complex folding process involves distributed computing to simulate how protein attain its final shape and shows how “misfields” cause diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. With the entry of the PS3’s new Cell microprocessor, there has been a quantum jump in computation speed. The code optimized for PS3 performs faster up to 40 times than that of written for the single-core processor. The reason is that the developers analyzed the basic ideas for the PowerPC architecture that’s used in Apple’s Macintoshes and developed a Graphics Processing Unit with a dual-threaded Power processing element along with eight Synergistic processing elements are also created. The units developed are used to perform the floating point operations for graphics processing (mainly required in gaming computations) and also supported scientific computations. One significant change that is made to use a high-bandwidth Element Interconnect Bus which mainly relies on Direct Memory Access for memory transfer operations between various processing elements and interfaces makes the computation speed tremendous.