Jason Percival » Computers

First Look at the new UEFI system architecture.

Jason Percival — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:10:20 +0000

We haven’t heard a ton about the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (or UEFI for short) since a rumor cropped up back in June suggesting that MSI would be introducing it on its Sandy Bridge motherboards, but Swedish website SweClockers has now actually gotten it hands on a motherboard with working version of the BIOS-replacing firmware, and delivered our first real look at it. The biggest difference, as you can see, is a significantly more user-friendly interface, but there’s also a few other considerable advantages over a standard BIOS, including faster boot times and the ability to boot from drives bigger than 2TB. Head on past the break to check it out in action, in Swedish.

[via: Engadget]

China has the worlds fastest super computer again.

Jason Percival — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:03:20 +0000

China has unveiled the Tianhe-1A which is now the worlds fastest super computer.

The best part of this machine is it is made out of mostly consumer grade materials. Consisting of 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs consuming 4.04 megawatts of power this machine can hit a whopping 2.507 petaflops.

Today is package day!

Jason Percival — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:50:52 +0000

Today is the day that all my packages arrive. I am very exited. I broke down and ordered a Black MacBook with AppleCare and a MobileMe – Family Pack. I figured I didn’t need the power of the MacBook Pro yet, and I can wait until after MacWorld to get one if I decide that I need the power. I also wanted to save the extra money I would of spent on the MacBook Pro and use it toward the best package of them all.

The baby is coming home today. The 5 day long hospital stay is finally coming to an end, and little Juliana will finally get to come home and see her room and all of her toys and clothes. I can’t believe how much more stuff we have gotten since the baby was born. It seemed that everyday I came home I had another car full of stuff to bring into the house.

Could this be the new Mac Book Pro?

Jason Percival — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:43:15 +0000

I first saw this posted via twitter by Cali Lewis. She posted it on Geek Brief TV. The picture is from a French Blog. Now I don’t speak French, but I do speed geek and the picture is lust worthy.

Now this is just another “leaked” picture which will more then likely turn out to be fake, but it has sealed my decision to wait for the 14th to purchase my new MacBook Pro. Just in case it’s real. From what you can see in the image below, is a new beveled edge and black keyboard which makes it look a lot more like the MacBook Air. Also is the much rumored glass trackpad with multi-touch. I’m not too sure I would like for the dock to be part of the multi-touch trackpad. I believe it would get in the way of normal use.

New MacBook Pro?

6 possible MacBook Placeholder SKUs in Future Shop inventory system.

Jason Percival — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:35:36 +0000

The folks over at Gizmodo have posted that 6 placeholder SKUs have shown up in the Inventory System of Future Shop a division of Best Buy.

Future Shop Mac SKU Place Holders

The fact that there are 6 place holder SKUS would lead one to believe that new MacBook’s and MacBook Pro’s are on the way for the much rumored October 14th announcement.

I have made it two days so far without ordering my new MacBook Pro. I want to order it now, but am trying very hard to wait to see if there are any truth’s to all these rumors I keep posting about. It’s almost like I’ve become an Apple Rumor blog.

If you have any ideas of want to weigh in on the possibility of new MacBook & MacBook Pros feel free to do so in the comments.

Next Generation MacBook Video Card Rumor

Jason Percival — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:14:50 +0000

Mac Soda claims to have knowledge of the new video card Apple will use in the new MacBooks. nVIDIA’s MCP7A-U is an integrated chipset, but don’t let that turn you off. It packs features such as low-power consumption, and HDMI-Out.

Another rumored MacBook Pro leaked image.

Jason Percival — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:35:16 +0000

According to tuaw the German retailer T-Systems (a division of Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile) which sells Apple computers posted a few new items for sale today which were then taken down shortly after everybody started talking about them. The new systems they posted may possibly be the new MacBook Pros based on the specs, and the picture posted.

Possible new MacBook Pro

The specs were listed as having either a 2.5GHz or 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard disk, and an nVidia GF 8600M GT video card. The interesting thing is that the prices listed when the item was still visible showed the prices being much cheaper then the current models. The Apple store starts with 1799 â‚¬ for the MacBookPro while T-Com has systems for 1402â‚¬ (15″ – 2.4GHz-models). Larger systems are also much cheaper (1973â‚¬ vs. 2499â‚¬ for 17″).

I’m personally hoping that they announce new MacBook Pro’s soon. I am holding off on buying one, because I don’t want to buy it, and then have a new one come out a few weeks later. The other rumor’s I’ve heard point to an October 14th announcement.

LHC Hack Attack

Jason Percival — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:40:07 +0000

People are all worried that the Large Hardron Collider will bring about the end of the world. Personally I think the experiment will be safe. What I do worry about is some hacker group penetrating the security of the network, and messing around with things.

This exact scenario played out between September 9th & 10th at CERN. A group calling themselves Greek Security Team was able to deface one of the sites that is part of the LHC network. The site has been since unreachable to the public.

You can read the entire story here.

MacBook Pro Mockup

Jason Percival — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:49:12 +0000

I found another mockup of the rumored MacBook Pro. The image was posted to flickr and I must say that I really like it.

I am still hoping that the rumored Apple event will bring an updated MacBook Pro and I also must say that if this was the design they went with I would be extremely happy. I’m currently thinking about selling my new machine I just put together to get some money saved to purchase my new toy.

Let me know what your opinions on this mockup are, again I did not create this, just found it on flickr.

All I want for my birthday is a MacBook Pro.

Jason Percival — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:13:32 +0000

Let me preface this post by saying that I know it’s not going to happen, but it sure would be nice.

Today on Digg there was an Article showing what looks like an ad for the new MacBook Pro. It shows it looking for like the Air, but larger, heavier and more powerful. There is also an article to this form post. One of the pictures in this post shows this text “The New MacBook Thinner Then Ever Before Coming September 23rd”. Now September 23rd is a big day for me, it just happens to be my 30th birthday. So that’s it really. I want to get a MacBook Pro and I am holding out until the new ones come out. So maybe I can get it as a birthday present to myself. Although, the baby is due close to my birthday as well. That means I will have the best present in the world, but maybe I could still manage to obtain the MacBook Pro and have the second best birthday present in the world.

I would also like to note that I am very tired, and haven’t been sleeping well. I am hoping this all made sense. I’m off now to try and get some of that rare sleep stuff. G’night all.