12 cores.
You read it right. Up to 12 burning CPU cores on the newest Apple Mac Pro, overhauled from last year. The Mac Pro has been longing for a refresh worthy of its title — the monster performer of the Mac line. As we can see, Apple has just updated its most powerful piece of
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We got a 25-pack spindle of DIGISTOR’s 25GB BD-R Blu-ray media. The blank Blu-ray discs were a perfect match for our brand spanking new DIGISTOR External Blu-ray burner that we just unpacked. Here comes the inevitable burn test.
Our trusty TEST BED:
ASUS K50IJ Series laptop, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, Core 2 Duo Proc, Vista
For burning,
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We just un-boxed our new DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner. We got it in the same package that contained the 250GB Portable Hard Drive that we unboxed and tested a couple of days back.
We got one of these, and we're excited!
This is the tray-load version, and connects to your system via USB 2.0. As I’ve
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While Apple isn’t going to throw its weight behind the Blu-ray format just yet, that doesn’t mean everyone else is doing nothing, with Amex Digital rolling out the new Blu-ray Drive Upgrade Kit. Also known as the BD-UG1, it will retail for $199 while supporting Blu-ray recording should you happen to rely on BootCamp on your Mac mini while work under the Windows operating system.
Read more on this Blu-Ray upgrade kit from Mac PC Wiz after the break.
Toshiba announced the newest Qosmio model today, the X500 series, and the most notable new feature is the overdue, inevitable inclusion of a Blu-Ray drive or burner–Toshiba’s first. (The one-time proponent of HD-DVD formally announced it was getting into the Blu-Ray game last month.) The X500 also has an Intel Core i7 processor, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 graphics with a gigabyte of DDR5 memory, HDMI, Harmon/Kardon sound, and room for two hard drives (one of which can be a solid-state disk). Read more from MacPCWiz.