a post by Griffin, filed in Apple, Computer, technology on February 27th, 2008. Read the full post »
The Macbook Pro is getting an upgrade; new Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn processors are coming in 2.5 and 2.6GHz flavors. These new laptops are bundled with a Mac-specific model of the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB of GDDR3 RAM. The lesser Macbook has also received an upgrade, but only the Macbook Pro is getting the much-rumored multitouch interface. Unofficial sources have been saying that the multitouch interface was only a software upgrade away, and Apple was about 100 days late on its average updating time for laptops.
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a post by Justin, filed in Uncategorized on January 17th, 2008. Read the full post »
Professor Yi Cui and associates at Stanford’s Department of materials Science and Engineering are currently working on increasing the life of chargeable lithium batteries. They hope that by using silicon nano wires as the anode instead of Graphite the battery life will be extended. They are saying that Two day batteries could be on the market in a matter of years. They have known about Nano wires for 30 years but before now they were impractical to use. Apparently the can change volume by 400 percent when inserted and extracted with lithium. Not only do they handle extreme volume changes, they also provide good electronic contact and conduction.
