Is a Core i7-based MacBook Pro strutting its specs in the wild?

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Published Feb. 6, 2010 at 3:29 p.m.
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For your viewing pleasure, we present the latest Apple rumor doing the rounds this Saturday afternoon -- namely, GeekBench results for a "new" Core i7 MacBook Pro. According to the results, what you're looking at above are the numbers for the MacBook Pro 6,1, sporting a nastified Intel Core i7 (dual core, not quad) 620M (Arrandale) percolating along at 2.66GHz. Other curious points here are the 4.8GHz FSB, which sounds a little screwy to us, and a final GeekBench score of 5260, which makes

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Man, That's a Huge Hackintosh [Intel]

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Published Sept. 24, 2009 at 9:00 p.m.
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Check out the machine Intel used to demo their insanely fast 10Gbps Light Peak optical data transfer tech at IDF: Yep, a hulking freak of a Hackintosh—the only thing that's more awesome than a super teeny tiny Hackintosh ... And hey, if Intel does it, that means it's totally cool for everybody else, right? [Engadget] ...

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Video: Intel's Light Peak running an HD display while transferring files... on a hackintosh

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Published Sept. 24, 2009 at 2:36 p.m.
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Intel just did a pretty impressive demo of its new Light Peak optical device interconnect, driving a greater-than-HD display while saturating an SSD RAID all over one cable, but we couldn't help but notice the monster Frankenstein test rig on stage was running OS X -- looks like someone's violating their EULA! Video after the break ... Continue reading Video: Intel's Light Peak running an HD display while transferring files ... on a hackintosh ... Video: Intel's Light Peak running an HD display

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Complete Guide [Snow Leopard]

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Published Sept. 5, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
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Though you might mistake Snow Leopard for plain old Leopard when you first boot it up, there's a lot of subtle stuff happening on screen and under the hood. Here's our guide to everything new in the latest Mac OS ... Table of Contents ... Intro ... What It All Means: Snow Leopard Review ... So much of what's going on with Snow Leopard is almost invisible—especially until developers can take advantage of it—so what does all that really add up to? ... Chapter 1 ... The Real Cost of Upgrading

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Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart Updated [Hackintosh]

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Published July 25, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.
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Boing Boing Gadgets' fantastic ease-of-netbook-Hackintoshing chart just got updated with three new models (all pretty promising) and a smattering of changes throughout. If you're thinking about a Hackintoshed netbook, check it, and our guide, out. [Boing Boing Gadgets] ...

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Chinese PC Maker Mass Produces Hackintosh Netbooks

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Published July 22, 2009 at 10:24 a.m.

We’ve seen some pretty clever Hackintosh netbooks before, but now a Chinese PC maker is actually mass-producing 8.9-inch netbooks with an Apple logo on the lid.However, the chances of Apple being connected to the machine are just about absolutely zero. It runs an ARM CPU and either Windows CE or Linux as an OS, and [ ... ] ...

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Upgrading the SSD in a Netbook Makes a Difference [Storage]

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Published July 3, 2009 at 5:34 p.m.
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Netbooks are netbooks. Usually based on Intel's Atom chipset, and generally not that fast. What you gonna do? Well, I upgraded the SSD in my Hackintosh. Not just to bump the drive from 32 to 128GB, but for SPEED ... The drive is one of few things easily upgradable on these devices. On the Dell Mini 9, its a matter of removing two screws on the back plate, and two screws that hold the drive in place (which, if you've never seen a netbook SSD drive before, looks more like a RAM module.) The 64 and

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Psystar bounces back from Chapter 11, intros new high-end hardware

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Published July 2, 2009 at 11:16 a.m.
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Everybody's favorite fuzzy little Apple clone maker is back from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (we're still waiting on that revelatory outing of creditors that Apple is so hungry for), and already has a new product in the offering. Psystar's new Open(7) hardware runs Intel Nehalem Xeon, which should provide a nice performance jolt to hackintosh land. Psystar is also going to start using a new bootloader called Darwin Universal Boot Loader, which will eventually be released to open source. Oh,

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The Life of Steve Jobs - So Far [Apple]

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Published June 24, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
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Here's an idea: How about we stop focusing on livers for a second and look at the best, worst and as he might put it, "insanely great" parts of Steve Jobs life so far? ... Foreword (It's long. You can skip this if you want.) ... The timeline itself is made from a half dozen books, which I've listed below, and several websites. I'm sure there are some errors and missing parts, because the books often contradict each other. Also, I consider this timeline/biography to be in Alpha, so let me know if

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OS X Runs (Poorly, We Admit) on Sony Vaio P [Hackintoshing]

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Published June 13, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
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Well, looks like it is possible to run OS X on Sony's teeny Vaio P netbook, but it's no perfect Dell Mini 9 hackintosh. It looks like a difficult and imperfect crack, yet it still somehow runs better than Vista ... Posters on the Insanely Mac forums managed to get OS X onto the Vaio P, though the netbooks GMA-500 video chip remains an obstinate problem, refusing to allow real 3D graphics. And while you might expect the Vaio P's GPS and 3G connections wouldn't work, what you might not expect is

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