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All New Apple iMac with Intel dual/quad core processors

Oct 25

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Hardware | 1 Comment

Hey can't wait to post this beautiful piece of Apple iMac; basically I am a Windows/*nix developer but got a chance to have hands on it while developing/testing iPhone compatible web application on it over iPhone SDK toolkit.

Apple iMac

Apple iMac

It's all together different experience when we use iMac. Basically I tried installing Mac OS X (Tiger) before few months back over Windows host using VMWare 6.x but was not able to do that successfully.

Downloaded a x86 version of the OS X from osx86project.org but there were some issues with hard-disk detection and couldn't come out of it and stopped trying on it further.

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System Virtualization for Home & Business

Mar 10

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Hardware, Technology, Virtualization | No Comments

Virtualization...! What does that mean in Computing?

Wikipedia defines it as "[Virtualization is] a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact with those resources. This includes making a single physical resource (such as a server, an operating system, an application, or storage device) appear to function as multiple logical resources; or it can include making multiple physical resources (such as storage devices or servers) appear as a single logical resource."

In simple words Virtualization is about making Software fool (whether it is system or application). Sorry for my harsh words. This technology makes guest software feel like they are interacting with real hardware/resource while it is nothing but a layer created by Virtualization enabled software application.

Softwares with Virtualization Technology for System softwares/Operating system are called as Virtual Machine(s), I mean we can install Operating System with such softwares and they will be actually Machine inside Machine. All the resources used by Guest Virtual Machine will be using physical resources from Host Machine/Operating System.

It is good to use Virtualization for Software Testing, Deployment over multiple platforms and it's usage has long list. It will require really good hardware configuration for machines we are willing to install VMs.

Here is the list of System Virtualization enabled softwares for reference. Read the rest of this entry »

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HP Blackbird 002 DE LCi gaming PC with Price tag $6,200

Feb 21

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Hardware | 2 Comments

It's an amazing piece of hardware.. I saw it and can't wait to post it on my blog.

For hardcore computer gamers, there is no such thing as too much power when it comes to their personal computer; there is only the question: How much can I afford? The Blackbird 002 DE LCi is definitely in the "money is no object" category. Sporting dual ATI Radeon X2900 XT video cards, each with 512GB of GDDR4 SDRAM, an Intel Core2 Extreme Quad-Core 3.0GHz QX6850 CPU, 2GB 1066MHz Corsair PC2-8500 SDRAM, three hard drives in a RAID array, and liquid cooling for the video cards and the CPU, this PC is a gamer's dream machine. And at about $6200, for many gamers, it will remain only a dream. HP loaned us a Blackbird 002 to review, and we just had to take a look inside. Read the rest of this entry »