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tgdaily.com - 12/8/2008
DisplayPort and HDCP in your Mac: What you need to know
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Chicago (IL) – Steve Jobs told us during the unibody Macbook keynote that Apple will integrate DisplayPort in all Mac hardware down the road, but he forgot to mention out that HDCP is part of the deal. Developed by Intel, HDCP stands for “High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection” and is ...
INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material
theinquirer.net - 12/9/2008
INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material
— theinquirer.net — By Charlie Demerjian : Tuesday, 09 December 2008, 11:20 AM WHEN THE NEW Macbooks came out a... few weeks ago, Nvidia stated that the chips they provided to Apple did not contain the proverbial 'bad bumps'. Unfortunately for them, an investigation lead ... (more) INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad ...

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INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material
theinquirer.net - 12/10/2008
INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material
— theinquirer.net — WHEN THE NEW Macbooks came out a few weeks ago, Nvidia stated that the chips they provided... to Apple did not contain the proverbial 'bad bumps'. Unfortunately for them, an investigation led by The Inquirer proves that not to be the case. Background If ... (more) INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have ...

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What Mac users need to know about HDCP and DisplayPort
MacDailyNews — ... requires a chain of HDCP-equipped devices, including an HDCP graphics card and HDCP monitor. But since we know that Apple will not adopt Blu-ray, why would Apple need HDCP? Some believe Hollywood is forcing Apple to integrate HDCP into iTunes content," Zibreg reports. "Indeed, Hollywood will likely not allow HD movie streaming or purchase on anything beyond Apple TV until Apple transitions the entire Mac lineup towards a DisplayPort+HDCP environment." Full article - recommended - here . MacDailyNews Take: DRM only inconveniences paying customers while the thieves just ...

Particle Debris (Week ending 12/12) What Apple Learned from Kodak and More
The Mac Observer — ... than up the clock speeds to obtain higher performance, memory bus latency and throughput haven't kept pace. In the recent past, Intel has told developers to get ready for a lot more cores, but perhaps the company is already anticipating a technique that will help: stacking memory chips on the processor. Sun and IBM have also looked into this. In any case, we have some time -- as developers learn how to properly exploit the cores they do have: 2, 4 or 8. On Monday, there was a nice recap of the situation with DisplayPort and HDCP at tgdaily It's a complex subject, and one ...

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