http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/internet.explorer.9.still.early/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/ie9-pdc2009.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft on the second day of its Professional Developers Conference by providing an early look at Internet Explorer 9. The new browser is just three weeks into development but is already expected to significantly outperform its predecessor. The new version will take advantage of hardware acceleration from graphics chipsets that support D2D in DirectX to offload many of the visual elements of b... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/internet.explorer.9.still.early/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/02/nvidia.fermi.with.snow.leopard.in.mind/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/nvidiafermi.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The just-unveiled Fermi graphics architecture will find its way into Macs and play an important role in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, NVIDIA chief scientist Bill Dally said today. While it's expected that NVIDIA would continue to play an important part of future Macs, the researcher drew a particular connection between the new GPU design and Apple's new OS, expecting that it would provide a significant ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/02/nvidia.fermi.with.snow.leopard.in.mind/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/25/nvidia.geforce.300.at.tape.out.due.soon/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/nvidiageforcegtx295-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Despite a report of NVIDIA's 40nm GeForce 300 series GPUs facing a possible delay until 2010, the card is currently at the tape out (initial silicon production stage), Fudzilla reported on Friday. Codenamed GT300, it was was originally believed to be going on sale in October and may still reach the target if all goes smoothly during testing. The DirectX 11-capable card has already been seen by key... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/25/nvidia.geforce.300.at.tape.out.due.soon/ Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/24/ati.radeon.hd.5800.leak/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/amdradeonhd4890.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AMD's major video chipset update this fall has had its feature set and release date uncovered thanks to a slip of information Monday. The ATI Radeon HD 5800 series should be fronted by the 5850 and 5870, both high-end cards that could be the first to support Eyefinity, a technology that not unlike Matrox cards will support three displays on a single card. They are also to be AMD's first graphics... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/24/ati.radeon.hd.5800.leak/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/01/warp10.software.graphics/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0812/direct3dwarp10intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Windows 7 promises to bring with it a pair of programs that will enable users to process Direct3D 10 graphics on Direct3D 9 hardware as well as processing Direct3D 9-level graphics with no hardware at all, according to an MSDN article. The former feat is made possible with software called Direct3D 10 Level9, while the latter comes courtesy of Direct3D Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP1... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/01/warp10.software.graphics/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/07/nvidia.intros.pair.of.gpus/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0811/quadrofx470intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA on Thursday announced the release of two new entry-level graphics processing solutions for workstations with its first Quadro FX 470 integrated mainboard GPU and the Quadro FX 370 Low Profile standalone PCIe card meant for use in small form factor desktop PCs. Either GPU is certified for CAD and digital media apps by software makers that include Autodesk and Adobe. Both new NVIDIA products ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/07/nvidia.intros.pair.of.gpus/ Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/31/ocz.intros.15.diy.laptops/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0810/oczdiy15inch.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />OCZ on Thursday announced the introduction of its first 15-inch Gaming Notebook based on an Intel Centrino 2 platform. As with the company's previous DIY (Do It Yourself) products, the idea is to let users spec their own systems for their own applications. All of the new 15.4-inch, 1280x800 notebooks include an ATI Radeon HD 3650 GPU with 512MB of dedicated memory and DirectX 10.1 compatibility. T... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/31/ocz.intros.15.diy.laptops/ Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/10/amd.radeon.hd.4600/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0809/amdradeonhd4600.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AMD started off Wednesday by setting a new relative ground floor for performance and hoping to beat NVIDIA's GeForce 9500 cards. The Radeon HD 4600 series is claimed to outperform both the 9500 GT and AMD's own earlier Radeon HD 3650 by including all the hardware optimizations of the 4800 series and still keeping 320 stream (visual effects) processors. It's also one of the least expensive graphi... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/10/amd.radeon.hd.4600/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/23/directx.11.with.gpgpu.tech/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0807/microsoftdirectx.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft's next version of DirectX will have its own alternative to the OpenCL standard proposed by Apple, the company revealed yesterday at its GamesFest conference. DirectX 11 will have support for "compute shader technology" that allows modern, more generalized video cards' effects processors to perform tasks other than rendering video, including physics calculations and other chores that wou... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/23/directx.11.with.gpgpu.tech/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:45:00 GMT