Psystar slaps Apple around, releases Mac clones with Blu-ray / GeForce 9800GT

Posted in News by Nicr on the October 29th, 2008

While suits from Psystar and Apple are currently attempting to work things out via alternative dispute resolution, the former company is doing something the latter company won't: offer OS X-capable machines with built-in Blu-ray and NVIDIA's GeForce 9800GT. Showing no mercy whatsoever in a recent rel……

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Apple's Steve Jobs calls Blu-ray “a bag of hurt”

Posted in News by Nicr on the October 22nd, 2008

Straight from El Jobso’s mouth at today’s notebook keynote: “Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It’s great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we’re waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace.” Phil chimed in with “We have the best HD mo……

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X-ray Light exposes our failure to be super

Posted in News by Nicr on the October 22nd, 2008

It’s a shame that the amazing always becomes ordinary given enough time and popular exposure. Case in point: the x-ray. Childhood longings to possess such visual power are ultimately replaced by painful memories of leaden-concealed trips to the emergency room. Until this, the X-Ray Light from designer Wo……

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Sanyo's laser could bring 12x Blu-ray burners and 100GB discs

Posted in News by Nicr on the October 8th, 2008

While Sony and others compete with Blu-ray burners of a paltry 8x, Sanyo's looking ahead with a new laser that could enable write speeds of up to 12x. More impressively, the 450 milliwatt diode (twice that of current burners) could read and write through four 25GB layers. If you're not so good at math……

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