Alex Watson

Getting all Steamed up over the Mac’s GPU

by Alex Watson on 18 May 2010 in Mac to the future

Great news for gamers: Valve is bringing Steam to the Mac. But does your graphics processor have enough clout to actually run any of the games? If the geeks born in the 1960s and 1970s were first attracted to computers by coding, then for those like me, who were born in the 1980s, it was [...]

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Getting to the core of the problem

by Alex Watson on 18 May 2010 in Mac to the future

Apple’s array of MacBooks and desktop Macs is starting to look a little dated on the inside, so it’s high time the company upgraded its range. In a recent call with investors, Apple COO Tim Cook observed that you could arrange all the company’s products on one table, and yet its revenue in 2009 was [...]

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A closer look at the iPad’s A4 processor

by Alex Watson on 18 May 2010 in Mac to the future

Arm’s A4 chipset is the beating heart of the new iPad and is key to Apple delivering yet another winning device. While most elements of the iPad were subject to intense speculation in the weeks and months running up to Steve Jobs’ keynote, most pundits were agreed: hardware wise, we could just expect a giant [...]

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