The release of Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will be postponed to October 2007 to allow Apple to make new 64-bit operating system support Windows Vista OS through an integrated version of Boot Camp software, Digi Times reports.

“The sources pointed out that the launch delay is not due to software design problems with Leopard but instead is attributed to Apple’s plan to have its new OS support Windows Vista through an integrated version of Boot Camp. Boot Camp is an Apple software application that currently assists in the installation of Windows XP on computers using Apple’s latest OS. The company hopes with support for Vista, Mac computers using the new OS can grab more market share,” Digi Times has learned at industry sources.

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Tyan Computer Corporation announced today the immediate availability of the TyanPSC T-600 series Personal Supercomputer featuring new low-power 50-watt quad-core server processors from Intel. The TyanPSC T-650 QX can be configured with up to 40 processing cores and up to 60GB of system memory.

“With a maximum power draw of 15A the TyanPSC can be deployed in many non-traditional computation environments: starting with the office or home and extending to the ship, plane or remote outpost. With 40 processing cores available for high-performance computing there is a lot of compute power in a compact system. The system utilizes the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor L5320. The new 50-watt quad-core processor operates at 1.86 GHz and features a unique 8 megabytes (MB) of on die cache for faster memory data communication and interfaces with a dedicated 1066 MHz front side bus. The TyanPSC allows individuals and workgroups access to computational power formerly only found in data centers,” the company announced.

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Nero has announced Nero Linux 3 with 64-bit support at CeBIT 2007 show.

“The new version of the definitive burning application for Linux OS added Blu-Ray and HD DVD data recording support as well as an improved graphical user interface (GUI) that is similar to the current Nero Burning ROM 7 edition. In addition to Blu-ray and HD DVD burning capabilities, Nero Linux 3 will also natively support 64-bit systems, as well as Unicode in all languages currently supported in Nero 7. Many Linux distributions will be supported in the new upgrade including Red Hat Enterprises, Fedora Core, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Linspire,” and Mandriva After Dawn reports.

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Asus P5K-WS, one of the first motherboards based on the Intel P35 chipset (codenamed Bearlake), is showcased at ongoing CeBIT show.

The P5K-WS supports Intel Core 2 Duo / Extreme processors and DDR2-800 memory and provides 1333MHz front-side bus. Asus P5K-WS offers SATA2 hard drive support and has dual Gigabit LAN, as well as 8-channel HD audio, Digit Life reports.

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Sapphire has announced its PURE Innovation PI-AM2RS690MHD motherboard, based on the latest AMD 690G chipset with AMD’s socket AM2 processor support and with HDMI output.

“Now with HDMI, the new Pure Innovation HDMI mainboard boasts support for the impressive AMD Athlon 64/FX/ X2 processors, memory exapnsion of up to 8GB of 533/667/800 Dual Channel, PCI-Express Technology, onboard X1250 graphics and HDMI to fill your multimedia needs, onboard LAN/Firewire/USB 2.0 affords the luxury of connectivity without limitations, and for peak hard drive performance and backwards compatibility both IDE and RAID 0/1 SATA II suuport,” the Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-AM2RS690MHD product page says.

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The first upgrade of Intel Core 2, code-named Conroe, architecture is coming soon. The refreshed Conroe processor line-up with a 1333 MHz front-side-bus will arrive Q3’07, around the same time of Intel’s Q3’07 price cuts, Daily Tech reports according to Corporation’s roadmaps.

“With the introduction of Core 2 Duo E6×50-series processors, the entire Intel Core 2 Duo desktop lineup will fall below the $300 price point. The Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 takes the top spot of Intel’s Core 2 Duo lineup at $266 per processor, in 1,000 unit quantities. Intel clocks the Core 2 Duo E6850 at 3.0 GHz, higher than last year’s flagship Core 2 Extreme X6800 and it costs a fraction of the X6800’s $999 launch price,” the report says.

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Micro-Star International presented the motherboards it will be releasing in the coming months at the ongoing CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. The one of this motherboards is MSI P6N Diamond based on Nvidia chipset which supports Creative’s X-Fi Extreme Audio. X-Fi onboard means lower costs and better performance than other integrated audio solutions, Digi Times reports.

MSI P6N Diamond mainboard marks the first appearance of X-Fi on it and company plans to feature X-Fi on future boards too, including ones based on Intel’s recently unveiled Bearlake chipset family, according to MSI. The company says that Creative has recently submitted both 32- and 64-bit drivers for WHQL testing, and it expects Windows Vista certified drivers to be available around the time the P6N Diamond launches, according to Digi Times.

MSI P6N Diamond has three x16 PCIe Express slots. The four slots are paired up electrically as two x16 and two x8 and allow the P6N to support SLI plus a couple of PCIe add-in cards now, but MSI also mentioned SLI Physics and Quad-SLI will also be possible in the near future. Additionally, MSI highlighted that the RAID controller on the P6N supports hardware RAID 0 and 1 as well as RAID 5 in software.

The second interesting motherboard that MSI has on show at CeBIT is the P956 Neo2. This Intel 965 Express based board has been customized to support ATI Crossfire which is implemented via a PCIe x16 slot and an open ended x4 slot.

There are also AMD 690 chipset-based motherboards, as well as boards based on an Nvidia IGP – likely to be the upcoming MCP 73 for Intel and MCP 68 for AMD.

Digi Times says P6N Diamond will be priced around US$280 and P956 Neo2 will be priced around US$170. Both motherboards are scheduled to launch in the second quarter.

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BIOSTAR Microtech has launched TF7050-M2 motherboard, based on the new NVIDIA GeForce7050PV/ nForce630a Chipset. TF7050-M2 comes with integrated HDMI with on-chip HDCP and High Definition Audio(HDA), according to Biostar.

The on board HDMI connector is designed to meet the output protection management (HDCP) and security specification of the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD Formats, allowing the playback of encrypted movie content on PCs when connected to HDCP-compliant displays. High Definition Audio (HDA) brings consumer electronics quality sound to the PC delivering high quality sound from multiple channels. Using HAD, system can deliver stunning 192kHz/32-bit quality from eight channel, supporting the latest audio formats. And TF7050-M2 offers both HDMI and TV-Out ports to support HDMI and HDA function, according to Biostar.

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Notebook PC maker Clevo will release at CeBIT Show in Germany this week the new D900C gaming notebook, based on desktop-use Intel 965 Express chipset, which support Core 2 Extreme processors and with Nvidia’s SLI graphics system utilizing two video cards.

Clevo D900C laptop features a 17-inch widescreen display with 1680 x 1050 or 1920 x 1200 resolution and can be configured with one of the desktop Intel Core 2 Duos or with Core 2 Extreme processors. D900C will feature dual Nvidia Geforce Go 7950 GTX or forthcoming Geforce Go 8800 GPUs, according to NotebookReview.

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Commodore, known for its popular computers in the eighties of last century, is coming back on the computer market with a new line of high-end custom gaming PCs. The Commodore’s 64-bit gaming PCs will come with a two-year warranty on parts and service. The various models, from entry-level to high-end, are the Commodore Cg, Cgs, Cgx, and Cxx, DV Hardware reports.

DV hardware also published the specifications of the high-end Commodore Cxx.

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Intel will launch Bearlake chipsets for desktop computers at CeBIT 2007 show. The new series introduces support for DDR3 memory, front side bus speeds up to 1333MHz and are designed to support Intel’s upcoming 45nm-process CPUs, the Core 2 Duo (Wolfdale) and Core 2 Quad (Yorkfield), DigiTimes reports.

“The main chipset on show is known as the P35 and is to be positioned as the successor to Intel’s current 965 Express series for mainstream desktops, according to sources. Motherboards based on the P35 will be able to support FSB speeds up to 1333MHz (up from the 1066MHz of the 965) which will be required for several of the CPUs Intel is planning to launch in the second half of the year. The P35 also introduces support for DDR3 memory which is currently specified to run at up to 1066MHz, versus DDR2’s 800MHz, and so offers greater memory bandwidth. DDR3 also operates at just 1.5V compared to DRR2’s 1.8V,” the report says.

CeBIT 2007: Intel to launch Bearlake chipsets for desktops (part 1)

SiS announced today that it will unveil the most advanced chipsets supporting Windows Vista at CeBIT 2007. The SiS672FX series, SiS671FX series, and SiS771 series chipsets are SiS special innovations.

They are designed for optimum compatibility with Windows Vista, and support mobile PCs and desktop PCs platforms. All of these chipsets have received certification from Microsoft. At CeBIT this year, SiS will introduce its full product line of chipsets for powering Windows Vista. For Intel platform, SiS presents SiS672FX, SiS672, SiSM672MX, SiS671FX, SiS671, SiS671DX, and SiSM671MX chipsets; for AMD platform, SiS unveils the SiS771 chipset. With SiS high-end Mirage3+ graphics engine, high quality digital entertainment experiences can be explored thoroughly.

In order to present the high performance systems that adopt the latest SiS Windows Vista ready chipsets, this year, SiS set up a flagship section to live demo its star products. Furthermore, NB live-demo section and static motherboard section will also be highlighted in this exhibition.

In the live-demo section, the SiS672FX/SiS968, SiS672/SiS968, and SiSM672MX/SiS968 chipsets for Intel platforms will be on display; also, the SiS771/SiS968 chipsets for AMD platform will be presented. All of the platforms will be running Windows Vista. With SiS Mirage3+ graphics engine, the SiS672FX, SiS672, SiSM672MX, and SiS771 chipsets support DirectX9. Also, the Mirage3+ graphics engine is integrated with Pixel Shader 2.0, Texture Pipelines, Texture Filtering and Cubic Mapping Technologies to enhance the performance of the 2D and 3D graphics. Combining with the equipped media player and SiS Real Video technology, the video quality can be performed perfectly whenever you are watching TV shows, VCD, DVD, or pictures. In addition, SiS chipsets enhance the security and reliability of the systems when users are surfing the internet, emailing, using instant messenger, and editing documents using Windows Vista.

In the Mobile platform live-demo section, SiS also focuses on customers’ NB PCs which adopt SiS’ latest Vista ready chipsets. The SiS671DX/SiS968 chipsets are adopted by in Asus F5V; the SiSM671MX/SiS968 chipsets are adopted by Clevo M720S.

In static motherboard section, SiS showcased full range of motherboards aiming to fulfill different customers’ requirements. On display are SiS672FX-based motherboards from Asrock, ECS, Foxconn, Gigabyte, MSI, and USI. There is one SiS672-based motherboard from Asus, and the SiS671FX-based motherboards from Asus, ECS, Foxconn, Gigabyte, MSI, PC Partner, PCchips, and USI, will also be displayed. The SiS671-based motherboards from Axper and MSI and the SiS671DX-based motherboard from Gigabyte will be presented in static MB display section. All of the above-mentioned motherboards are compatible with Windows Vista which enable a more efficient search engine for more secure web surfing, better graphics performance, and higher integrated media functions.

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Apple’s UK Store leaks some information which suggests that 8-core Mac Pros are coming soon, MacRumors reports.

Apple appears to have found the leaked information and have removed the text from their site.

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AsRock has released ConRoe1333-DVI/H motherboard based on Intel 945G and ICH7 chipsets compatible with FSB 1333/1066/800/533MHz. ASRock ConRoe1333-DVI/H supports Intel Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Duo, Pentium D, Pentium 4 and Celeron D processors, but not Quad Core CPUs.

ConRoe1333-DVI/H is compatible with Windows Vista Premium 2007 Logo Ready, featuring Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with maximum shared memory of 224MB and 7.1 CH Vista Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec).

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Intel will officially release Pentium E 2000 and Celeron D 400 processor lines on June 3, HKEPC reports according to Taiwanese manufacturers.

“Pentium E2160 (1.8GHz/1MB L2/800MHz FSB) and Pentium E2140 (1.6GHz/.1MB L2/800MHz FSB) will be the replacement of Pentium D 935 and Pentium D 925. The prices setting for this two are $84 and $74. Besides, the prices setting for Celeron D 440(2GHz/512KB L2/800MHz FSB) and Celeron D 430 (1.8GHz/512KB L2/800MHz FSB) are $59 and $49 respectively. According to the testing result from the market, either one could provide a better performance than Celeron 360 running at 3.6 GHz, especially for gaming purpose,” the report says.

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