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TechRadar.com reports on some preliminary benchmarks on Intel's upcoming Nehalem EP chips which they say will be sold as the Xeon X5560 CPUs in the 1st quarter of 2009.

Apple has traditionally used the Xeon processors for the Mac Pro line.
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Editora s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Game On blog at PCWorld.com . Once I realized Apple's new MacBook Pros were available with a 2.8GHz processor upgrade option, I couldn't resist, so I ...

Once I realized Apple's new MacBook Pros were available with a 2.8GHz processor upgrade option, I couldn't resist, so I mortgaged my house and bought one.

"NVIDIA is bringing PureVideo features to Linux through a major update in their binary display driver.

Phoronix: "We have now had the time to benchmark the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix and have seen the benefits of PureVideo features finally arriving on alternative platforms."

Earlier today we shared that NVIDIA is bringing PureVideo features to Linux through a major update in their binary display driver.

Here's a look at the LLVM 2.4 release on ars technica.

"One very significant part of the LLVM effort is the Clang project, which aims to build a completely new LLVM front-end - one that can be used in place of the current GCC-based front-ends - for C-like languages.

Clang is progressing rapidly and is already capable of compiling some C applications. Clang offers a lot of really compelling advantages over GCC.

In our performance exploration of Ubuntu we now have additional tests to publish this morning. This time around we're switching out the hardware we're testing on to Intel's newer Core 2 series and we're comparing the performance of the x86 and x86_64 editions of Ubuntu 8.10 against Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.5 operating system.

Phoronix: "In our performance exploration of Ubuntu we now have additional tests to publish this morning. This time around we're switching out the hardware we're testing on to Intel's newer Core 2 series and we're comparing the performance of the x86 and x86_64 editions of Ubuntu 8.10 against Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.5 operating system."

Phoronix compared the performance figures of Mac OS X 10.5.5 with those of Ubuntu 8.10 . They conclude: "Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard had strong performance leads over Canonical's Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex ...