Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

We’ve seen there’s a bit of confusion after a certain not-entirely-lucid portion of Steve’s WWDC keynote yesterday, wherein he announced “top to bottom” 64-bit integration in Leopard, what he characterized as a first for the industry. As we all know, Apple is only shipping on one version of Leopard, so that led some to believe they’d be left in the lurch, their G4s, G5s, Core Solos, and Core Duos rotting on Tiger and unable to make the jump past 10.4. Thankfully, that ain’t the case.

As we mentioned yesterday (but didn’t really dig into), Leopard isn’t entirely like Windows, where you’re expected to install the 32 or 64-bit variants of the OS based on the system / CPU that will run it. We discussed this with Apple, which expressed that this latest version of OS X takes a far simpler approach for the end-user than multiple hardware-centric OS versions, opting instead to run both 64 and 32-bit apps and drivers on any 64-bit machine (read: Core 2 Duo-based), and defaulting to the usual 32-bit app / driver operation on 32-bit Macs. In other words, users with 64-bit capable Intel machines will see a performance boost if running 64-bit apps, but those that don’t have a newer Apple box won’t be at all penalized — nor will they be unable to upgrade. So, we cool?

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Filed under: Digital Cameras

More from Kodak in the form of these four from Kodak’s M series of ultracompact shooters. The 7 megapixel M753, 8 megapixel M853 (pictured), and 8 megapixel M873 each sport 2.5-inch LCDs while the 8 megapixel M883 dials it up to a 3-incher. The top-end M883 offers face detection technology, a full metal chassis, and ISO 3200 sensitivity. All the cameras feature a panorama stitching mode and MPEG-4 video capture which maxes out with a 640 x 480 resolution at just 15fps. The $149 M753 hits in June, the $179 M853 and $199 M873 in August, and $229 M883 in September — each available in several colors. More photos as we get ’em.

[Via Photography Blog]

Continue reading Kodak’s four slim shooters: the M753, M853, M873, M883

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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals

Well, we knew it wasn’t going to be earth-shattering, but this first shot of the mic for EA‘s Singstar-meets-DDR Wii game Boogie doesn’t even set off mild tremors. The USB unit is the first mic for the Wii, however, and that’s gotta count for something, right? Still, we’re not giving up hope for Nintendo to finally ship the fabled Wiimote microphone that plugs into that unused “audio translator” chip — it’s gotta happen sometime. Right?

[Via Wii Fanboy]

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Filed under: Gaming

European gamers hoping to score a PS3 with a larger-than-60GB hard drive had better bust out their screwdrivers — Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves isn’t planning on selling that 80GB PS3 in your hood anytime soon. Writing for MCV, Reeves says the larger hard drive only makes sense in a market like South Korea, which has “very high broadband penetration and the people there are used to downloading content, so they require a certain size hard drive.” Ouch, way to underestimate your customers — better start downloading more movies, Europe. Reeves goes on to say that he doesn’t “feel” competing with Xbox Live since Sony is in a “different stadium,” and that it doesn’t have “eyes on the competition in any way.” We’re not going to tackle that one, except to point out that if Sony was looking at the competition, it might notice that 120GB hard drive said competition now has available.

[Via PS3 Fanboy]

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Filed under: Cellphones

Can’t afford the $750 or so required to pick up a Nokia N95 right now? Fret not, as the Chinese knockoff factories have been workin’ overtime in order to crank out a somewhat similar alternative to fit the bill. The E-PDA V16 comes in a bit larger than the authentic iteration and includes a three-inch QVGA touchscreen, three-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, multimedia player, and a touch of tacky to top things off. Of course, any of your pals that are in the know won’t be impressed by your futile attempts to fool ’em, but considering that this thing won’t cost you nearly as much coin as the real deal, it might be worth the embarrassment (or not). Catch a few more snapshots of the impostor after the jump.

[Via iTechNews, thanks lionsense]

Continue reading Keepin’ it real fake, part LIX: E-PDA V16 mocks Nokia N95

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