The unit will weight almost 19kg, but have some awesome features. You can choose between two options.

The first one will get you a new quad-core Mac Pro and costs $2,499. It will include:

• one 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon W3530 processor with 8MB of fully-shared L3 cache;
• 3GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 16GB;
• ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
• two Mini DisplayPorts and one DVI (dual-link) port (adapters sold separately);
• 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
• 18x SuperDrive® with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW);
• four PCI Express 2.0 slots;
• five USB 2.0 ports and four FireWire® 800 ports;
• AirPort Extreme® 802.11n;
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
• Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad and Magic Mouse.

The second option will offer you an 8-core Mac Pro with a suggested retail price of $3,499. It will include:

• two 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5620 processors with 12MB of fully-shared L3 cache per processor;
• 6GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 32GB;
• ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
• two Mini DisplayPorts and one DVI (dual-link) port (adapters sold separately);
• 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
• 18x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW);
• four PCI Express 2.0 slots;
• five USB 2.0 ports and four FireWire 800 ports;
• AirPort Extreme 802.11n;
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
• Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad and Magic Mouse.

Additional updates are still available if you plan to improve this monster:

• one 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon W3565 processor for the quad-core Mac Pro;

• one 3.33 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon W3680 processor for the quad-core Mac Pro;
• two 2.66 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon X5650 processors (12-cores) for the 8-core Mac Pro;
• two 2.93 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon X5670 processors (12-cores) for the 8-core Mac Pro;
• two ATI Radeon HD 5770 cards with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
• one ATI Radeon HD 5870 card with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
• up to 16GB of DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory for the quad-core Mac Pro;
• up to 32GB of DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory for the 8-core Mac Pro;
• up to four 512GB solid state drives (SSD); or
• up to four 1TB or 2TB Serial ATA hard drives running at 7200 rpm;
• Mac Pro RAID card;
• dual-channel or quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel card; and
• up to two 18x SuperDrives with double-layer support.

It will cost you almost $5000 to reach a 12-core processor performance and 32Gb RAM, but at least you will know you can ride a machine right from your desk. In a world where you can feed a whole city with $5000, there will be always guys who will spend this amount just for fun.

When you will purchase an Apple Mac Pro you will find in the box:

• Mac Pro
• Power cord
• Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad
• Magic Mouse
• USB keyboard extension cable
• Install/restore DVDs
• Printed and electronic documentation

Accessories include: Magic Trackpad, Apple Battery Charger, wired Apple Mouse, wireless Apple Keyboard, Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter, Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (for 30-inch DVI display), Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter, the AppleCare® Protection Plan; and pre-installed copies of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server; iWork®, Logic Express 9, Final Cut Express 4 and Aperture 3.

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The image posted by Google is quite clear where Google search is heading: to deliver best results in the shortest period of time.

Basically this is what Caffeine does, it woks 50% faster than the old index and it provides more fresh results in real time, now more than ever. Year by year Internet evolves and Google must search through more and more websites to deliver some of the best queries. PageRank had a big importance at the old index, but now Caffeine wants to go to the next level and take into consideration more factors.

Articles, images, videos are posted almost instantly in any corner of the world and searchers need to find the latest relevant content, while publishers expect to found their content as quickly as possible. Google have to keep up with social networks( Twitter, Facebook, MySpace) and choose live results from them, because this is some of the user demands.

Here’s how the old index worked:

Our old index had several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would update every couple of weeks. To refresh a layer of the old index, we would analyze the entire web, which meant there was a significant delay between when we found a page and made it available to you.

And now what Caffeine means:

With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index. That means you can find fresher information than ever before—no matter when or where it was published.

Caffeine lets us index web pages on an enormous scale. In fact, every second Caffeine processes hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel. If this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second. Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles.

We’ve built Caffeine with the future in mind. Not only is it fresher, it’s a robust foundation that makes it possible for us to build an even faster and comprehensive search engine that scales with the growth of information online, and delivers even more relevant search results to you. So stay tuned, and look for more improvements in the months to come.

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This week seems to be very busy as Mobile World Congress begun this week in Barcelona, Spain(15-18 February) and there are gonna be a lot of interesting announcements.

We received and expect to receive news regarding launches of new OS from Windows(Mobile), Nokia(Symbian) or some new phones from HTC, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung.

Hope we have our fingers rested cause it’s gonna be a long week full with previews and announcements.

Enjoy it!

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Lockerz

It claims to be an activity site, where users will make several actions and they will be rewarded with PTZ. PTZ is the monetary unit used on site: either you login, play, answer questions, watch videos and so on you’ll get rewarded. You can redeem the PTZ points and get: T-shirts, Laptops, PS3, Xbox360, DVD’s, iPod’s, Digital Cameras and much more.

The site is now only in Beta version, so you can make PTZ just by logging in and answer the daily question. Sending an invitation to a friend will also bring you 2 PTZ and if you gain at least 20 friends by this method, you’ll become a Z-Lister. What Z-Lister means?

It’s a tight community of in-the-know Lockerz members who get first dibs on the hottest brands and exclusive access to VIP experiences, videos, music and games – all in one place. Since you are a Z-Lister you receive double the PTZ, VIP Shopping, and you get a Free Lockerz T-Shirt!

So after all what is the point with this site, PTZ and invites?

We’ve partnered with thousands of the best brands and stores to bring you the latest and greatest in every category – electronics, designer gear, stylish accessories, sports equipment and more. Members will soon be able to purchase digital assets such as music, videos, art, and decals.

We wrote a mail to Lockerz guys saying that we want their accept so we can make a review, but till now we didn’t receive any response yet. We registered an account and now we wait to make PTZ so we can redeem into prizes. We don’t know yet if Lockerz is a spam or not, but we saw on youtube unboxing videos of items that several users had received from Lockerz.

If you want to get invited inside Lockerz please post a comment including your email and we will send you an invitation as soon as possible.

Good luck earning PTZ!

Happy Hollidays!

We don’t know any details yet and it seems the companies try to hide a little this important partnership. It is expected that Nokia will replace the Symbyan S60 platform with a Linux based one powered with technology from the Intel processor.

Intel, the leading microprocessor producer is incorporated in the 80% of personal world computers.

The company had designed a new chipset called Atom, special for mobile devices that access the Web and send e-mail. We believe the main goal of this big partnership is to create unique mobile phones with great Internet experience, more than a smartphone and close to our personal computers.

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The first and the most important thing is the speed, 8 times faster than version 2, Bluetooth 3.00 promise data transfers at 24Mbps through his 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL). Another good thing is “no wires”. Why I say that? Is because this new device helps us very much to move large data files between our gadgets/devices, without the need of cables and wires.

Economy and stability are good words describing this version. Now you can use more time your mobile and you can move it through your pocket without the fear that the connection will drop as we were used to in previous versions.

We can use Bluetooth 3.00 in various situations such us: wireless sync between pc and music player or phone, transfer photos to printer or pc, transfer files from camera or phone to pc or television and much more.

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