OS X Leopard and Darwin. What might it mean?

I apologize in advance for the long post; it is necessary.
I am attempting to give more direct information about what you will likely conclude; is a roadmap for where Apple is taking OS X.

DARWIN is named for Charles Darwin. He was known as the guy who brought us evolution theory.

DARWIN is an open source product that Apple has been creating via "Open Source for years. It's purpose has always been about creating an OS X like experience on non apple computers. There is no refuting this. Check out how long this has been going on here. and I will write down the URL here as well because I want everyone to see that this is APPLE'S puppy; not anyone else. It's part of the site map for APPLE. http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/

Ok, that being said, the following webpage used to solely explain Apples development of an O.S. named Darwin. It was/and is open source so as not to create to much thunder. You can see it here. Again, notice the URL when this page comes up. It's APPLE'S.

Last year, this Apple website was directly making Darwin as an "experiment" to see if they could provide a "open source" solution to folks who wanted OS X on a P.C.

At this time; unlike last year, it doesn't work so hard to misdirect you to thinking it's just an experiment. In a year, it has become a very blatant instruction guide on how to get OS X to work on a P.C.

Also, consider that there now is purportedly a "Hack" that makes OS X Leopard install just fine on a P.C. (Nelson posted it just a few days ago here) How do you think it was possible that in 2 or 3 days, a person could get Leopard to work on a P.C. ?

I guarantee this person was WELL VERSED in Darwin.

It's hard for me to see how can one conclude that Apple is not intending to eventually market either a straight version of Leopard on a P.C. or completely accurate facsimile called Darwin?

For Pete's sake, the whole O.S. what rebuilt to run on Intel chips! This was one of many steps pointing out the "roadmap" or "Evolution" named DARWIN has created an new species of the OS X Leopard.

Please all, tell me your thoughts.

Personally, I think it's wonderful! Finally some real head to head competition may arise!

Leopard Working on A PC?

Hell has frozen over my friends!!!

In what could be one of the biggest hacks of all time, the guys at DailyApps have come up with a way to run Apple's famous new OS Leopard on a regular PC.

Now how cool is that!!!

Now to their credit, they state that the hack is in its early stage and all the bugs haven't been worked out. But to have the opportunity to dual boot Leopard and Windows on a PC could change everything. This could be huge for Apple if you consider how many copies of Leopard could be sold because of this.

Now I'm very interested!!!

Hack Attack : Install Leopard on your PC in 3 easy steps! [DailyApps via Crunchgear]

SEE Fight

According to ZDNet, the normal battles between Intel & AMD have gotten kind of bad lately- due to nondisclosures for upcoming chips which will have new SSE extentions. Problem is, neither manufacturer will be on the same page for the next two years. What this will cause is AMD and Intel chips having different innate instruction sets and perfomance.

Read more here.

Tilera Shows Off Their 64-Core Processor

Forget those punk-ass dual and quad-core processors out there, Chipmaker Tilera has developed a 64-core processor.

That's right, a 64-core processor!!!! Now that's just sick!!!

It has a bandwidth of something like 32TB per second and has a unique "mesh" architecture which allows each core to be decentralized an able to communicate more freely with other cores on its grid. Tilera thinks that this could be the beginning of hundreds or even thousands of cores using their new system.

Check more out here. [TG Daily via Engadget]

QX6850 Core 2 Extreme: Xeon Power Without The Price Hit

If you're looking for Xeon power but don't want to get bent over for the boost?

Well Intel just released their new 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6850 quad core processor for standard Intel Socket T (LGA775) boards, and the performance scores are said to be amazing. According to Hot Hardware called the process "absolutely amazing" for a consumer level processor thanks to the Kentsfield XE class (65-nm) processor's 8MB (2x 4MB) L2 Cache and 1,333MHz front side bus.

The QX6850 should be out in the next few weeks at a price of $999.

Hit the jump for more information. [Hot Hardware via Engadget]

ABIT overclocks Core 2 Extreme to 5GHz with liquid nitrogen

If you like overclocking, and who doesn't, and you have some spare liquid nitrogen just sitting around, why not just overclock a Core 2 Extreme to 5GHz?

That’s exactly what Universal ABIT did at this year’s Computex. They took a Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93 GHz) and strapped it to one of their AB9 QuadGT motherboards and throttled it all the way up to 5 GHz while cooling it with liquid nitrogen.

They were able to keep it running continuous Pi calculations for some time without any issues. This isn’t exactly the greatest achievement in the history of overclocking, but it’s still pretty cool.

This ranks pretty high on the geekometer!!!

Check it out here. [ministryoftech]

Some Intel Santa Rosa Chips To Have Seperate HD Decoder

Multitaskers rejoice!!!

Intel is going to start using seperate decoders for HD DVD and Blu-ray playback in certain versions of their Santa Rosa chips. Now your little graphics card won't have put up with your love of High-Def on its own.

That means no more computer slow down when you're watching Planet Earth on Blu-ray (or HD DVD) and checking out Porn at the same time.

That's a win for me, and a win for you-thanks Intel.

Intel brakes out the big guns for lappies

Attention all laptop gamers!!!

Intel's prepping a mobile version of their Core 2 Extreme processor. It's expected to give laptops (gaming laptops in particular) a nice shot of adrenaline without zapping your battery (Intel claims the dual-core CPU will have energy-saving features). It'll use Intel's Santa Rosa 800MHz front-side bus, though actual clock speeds are still up in the air. It's expected to come out in Q3, so you might wanna wait if you're shopping for a gaming notebook.

Clickity clack for the article. [Laptoping]

Worlds thinnest laptop: Razr thin

Intel has created a sexy masterpiece this time around. It's as pretty as a supermodel, and thinner, too. Codenamed the Intel Mobile Metro Notebook, this prototype was designed by Intel along with Ziba Design.

This one has it all!!!

With it being a mere .7 inches thick and weighs just 2.25 pounds, which is only a quarter of an inch thicker than a Motorola RAZR cellphone.

It will also include a magnetically attached folder that will be available in different fashion colors. That folder will also be able to charge up the laptop wirelessly, and ladies (at whom this design is clearly aimed) can attach a strap to it and make it look just like a purse.

This is hot!!!

Vista SP1 released in the fall

Looks like Intel's CEO let the cat out of the bag by stating that the first Service Pack for Vista will be released in October or November. I'm sure that this didn't please Microsoft, due to that fact that no one likes to buy new software without most of the bugs being worked out.

Paul Otellini, president and CEO of Intel made this statement:

"In the corporate space, I believe most companies will act like Intel and do some pilots and testing today, but the deployment will actually happen when the service pack gets released in the fourth-quarter timeframe -- probably the October, November timeframe,".

Now that there is a release time table, I'm sure that this may slow people down on purchasing Vista until the service pack does come out.

Read the entire article here.