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Crazy iMac touch

Friday, 25 June 2010

Does this iMac rumour sound crazy to you? It should – according to LOOPRumors, Apple intends to host a special event in the next sixty days to reveal a refreshed, touchscreen iMac, which will come preinstalled with both OS X and iOS. 
A hybdrid iMac/iDevice, as it were.
Cult of Mac says "Needless to say, it’s a lie, and you have to be pretty gullible to believe it. While it looks likely that Apple will try to merge OS X and iOS over time, it’s not going to happen in the next “sixty days.”
OS X 10.7 is at least a year away, and the next Apple event is in two months – Apple’s annual iPod event. There’s no time for them to announce anything, and hacking Snow Leopard to run iOS apps isn’t a simple task within the scope of an iterative point update."
Yep. Who wants a touchscreen iMac anyway?

Microsoft's 150 million Windows 7 licenses: Microsoft has reportedly sold 150 million licenses for the Windows 7 operating system. According to a Windows' team blog. The company claims Windows 7 is the fastest-selling OS in Microsoft's history, with approximately 75 percent of enterprises are said to be actively deploying or evaluating it.
Electronista has more. Kinda puts numbers for OS X into perspective though, doesn't it?

Intel sneaks out faster i5, i7: Intel has upgraded its mobile processors in a low-key move. The Core i7 940XM is now Intel's fastest quad-core notebook chip at 2.13GHz. It can Turbo Boost to 3.33GHz, carries 8MB of cache, and still uses the same 55W power draw as the older 2GHz Core i7.
Also rolling out are the 1.86GHz i7 840QM, its fastest mainstream chip, and the more economical 1.73GHz i7 740QM. They carry 8MB and 6MB of cache respectively, but they use a more miserly 45W of energy.
All three quad-core chips are relatively expensive, starting at US$378 in bulk for the 740QM and scaling up to US$1096 for the 940XM.

OK – I updated this a little earlier than usual and also posted 5 Tip Friday (with iOS4 tips) as I stayed up to watch the NZ football team play Paraguay in the Football World Cup.
Then I sleep long time ... hopefully happily.