Macworld 2006

Posted by Brian Kirsten

January 10, 2006

Ah Macworld, where Apple geeks like me wait patiently for whatever new kooky idea they come up with. Airbag’s got the lowdown on what might be possibly coming out from everyone’s favorite company.

From the article:

PowerMacs — With the new Intel chips it was hard to only include two or four of them at a time because they are so tiny and don’t require heat sinks the size of masonry. That left a lot of room for the engineers to play with so the new PowerMacs will ship with sixteen dual core processors that are kept cool by floating in a bag of liquid nitrogen. The speed is off the charts and NASA has been brought in to help calculate just how fast this thing is. As a demonstration, Steve will launch a set of Adobe Photoshop actions that will resize every image on the planet, turn the atmosphere sepia, and then back to normal, all within about one minute and some change.

Read the whole article.

Ranting