News for Friday, 30 December 2005

iTMS traffic up 50%

By jwa. Original by Lionel - 30/12/2005 04:00:38 CET - Category: Apple - Source: http://www.macworld.co.uk

The spectacular sales of the iPod during the Christmas period have created a mass of new customers for the iTMS. The generated traffic has increased by 50% in the past few days. This is sure to make Apple and it's shareholders smile.
It should be said that the sales of the iPod have clearly beat all of the forecasts. In France, it was not possible to find any of the 60gb iPod 5G a week before Christmas.

First photo of the Radeon X1900

By jwa. Original by Lionel - 30/12/2005 03:52:33 CET - Category: Video

HEKPC has published the first photos of the Radeon X1900, the new jewel of ATi, which should arrive during January.

This monster, whose VPU will operate at 650 MHz, will be the first to have 48 Pixel Shader units.

G5 Quad Disassembled

By jwa. Original by Lionel - 30/12/2005 02:48:07 CET - Category: G5 - Source: XLR8yourMac

At the following address,
http://homepage.mac.com/thunderaudio/PhotoAlbum11.html
you can see photos from the processors/coolers of the G5 quad disassembled.
It is impressive to see how complicated it was for Apple to cool these two dual processors efficiently and quietly.