HP’s Blackbird Site Leaks NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT

While configuring the HP Blackbird 002 on HP’s website, I noticed that the unreleased, unannounced NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT was an option in configuring the Blackbird 002.  The card supposedly has 512MB GDDR3 of SDRAM, but no other information about the card is listed.  Maybe it could just be a stupid mistake and the card is [...]

Apple earnings call reveals new product by September

MacBook touch: no this picture isn’t real, but it’s a great mockup of what a product could look like. (courtesy of Gizmodo)
Apple had its quarterly earnings call on Monday and it revealed that a “product transition” would lower gross margin next quarter because “Apple makes state of the art new products that the competition just [...]

Mac Fusion - the final WWDC rumor of the night

Just twelve hours people, and then Steve will walk the stage of the Moscone Center and put the rumors to rest. TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) just received rumor tonight with some snippets of a webpage for the new Mac Fusion. Aimed toward the developer crowd (remember, it’s the Worldwide Developers Conference,) the pictures show [...]

Gates and Ballmer talk Windows 7 at All Things D, release in 18 months

Microsoft’s head honchos Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer gave us a small preview of what Windows 7 will be like last night when speaking to Walt Mossberg at the All Things D (D for Digital) conference. The main feature the two mentioned was multi-touch integration, a-la Microsoft Surface. Basically, picture being able to touch everything [...]

$399 “Open Computer’ runs Mac, but not from Apple

Psystar announced the Open Computer (originally dubbed OpenMac, but changed to avoid legal issues,) a $399 2.2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM, and swappable graphics cards, with Mac OS X pre installed. The company talks about why people should pay a premium for Apple products, and that Psystar is much cheaper and offering the same [...]