Apple thinks the Mac for its Retina Display

The Developer Preview 2 for Mac OS X Lion contains wallpapers with a resolution of 3200 x 2000 and icons 1024 x 1024, which suggests that the firm is planning Mac with a screen high resolution like the Retina Display iPhone 4. Apple has also developed a method HiDPI which allows developers to more easily adapt their applications to the new resolution.

As a reminder, the firm came up with the term to refer Retina Display screens whose pixels are distinct in principle invisible to the naked eye. If the appellation is primarily a marketing maneuver, the iPhone screen 4 is one of his strengths and one wonders when Apple will install slabs such high resolution on its other products.

Can we do a RAID disk 3.5 "?

Dear readers, have you had a good Easter weekend? Yes? So much the better, we! Forced to put our delicate skin geek safe from the aggression of the sun's rays, we embarked on a really good test: building a RAID0 cluster of USB floppy drives. But if you remember, the floppy disk 3.5 ", this soft stuff vaguely that some still use to flash the BIOS of their motherboards or graphics cards.

Not really suitable for the RAID at the base, the old storage medium may still serve?

• Ready for the raid (25/04/2011)
• Data Robotics Drobo Storage Robot Enclosure (24/04/2011)
• Review: CRU-DataPort ToughTech Duo portable RAID array (20/04/2011)
• Keeping RAID Alive (19/04/2011)
• [LOTRO] Dev blog on raid difficulty (04/03/2011)

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Intel reaches record revenue.

Intel is the company celebrations, according to reports have just emerged from another quarter with record numbers, nothing more and nothing less than $ 3.2 billion, representing an increase of 29% from the same data in the previous year, to be $ 12.8 billion making a 25% improvement compared to last year.

During the first quarter the company closed and made agreements with companies Infineon Wireless Solutions and McAfee, which resulted in $ 496 million revenue. In the words of Intel processors for its personal computers, data centers and others had an increase of 17%, 32% and 70% from the same data from the previous year, while small Atom sales increased by 4% which make $ 370 million.

Happy birthday ... "Au" Game Boy

22 years ago, Nintendo launched the (the?) Game Boy portable console. This device was a godsend for users of the era, with its mythical provided game bundled, Tetris. Game Boy offered a screen in 160 x 144 with 4 shades of "yellow / green on the original model, and 8 KB of video RAM. The central processor was an 8-bit model clocked at 4 MHz.

Originally proposed in a shell beige, shell version with transparent colors or have existed. A version of "Pocket" was launched in 1995, smaller and with a better screen. A version of "Light", rare, was proposed in 1998, with the main difference a backlit display. In late 1998, Nintendo has the Game Boy Color, a faster version (8 MHz) and has a color screen capable of displaying 56 out of 32 768.

Nintendo confirms Wii 2 in 2012

Nintendo has announced that the "successor to the Wii would be sold in 2012 with a demonstration of the console at E3 will be held from 7 to 9 June 2011 in Los Angeles. The console, which would meet the code name "Project Cafe ', is more powerful than the PS3 or Xbox 360. It is in all cases mature enough for Nintendo promises playable demos at E3.

It should happen after March 2012, the firm explained that it did not include its new console in the estimate recently published and which extend this period. This announcement therefore confirms the rumors that we in our news reports "The Wii 2 would be formalized in June."

• GoNintendo Podcast Webisode 297 (24/04/2011)
• More Nintendo Console Rumors (22/04/2011)
• New HD Nintendo Console Confirmed! (14/04/2011)
• A new Nintendo console has been "confirmed" for E3 (19/04/2011)
• RUMOR - Multiple sources confirm new Nintendo console, HD visuals with a late 2012 launch, devs already at work, E3 reveal (14/04/2011)

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The iPhone 4 white: a reality on April 27

After numerous delays, the iPhone will finally 4 white go on sale April 27 in Europe. This date is supported by European operators and employees of several Apple Store who allegedly received shipments only open on that date. We know that the unit is planned for spring and this date allows Apple to release this new version without too much suffering in the shadow of the iPhone 5 which should be announced in June at the WWDC, if history repeats itself .

The Sunday Quiz (S02E04) (a Monday)

And here's season 2 of our quizzes Sunday exceptionally on a Monday, after 10 episodes in Season 1. The goal is to try to guess what is the image (yes, nothing changes). You have 24 hours to find the right answer, and another shot - easier - will then be posted on the Facebook page of Tom's Hardware.

At the end of the season, we offer a small gift. The scale? 2 points for the first who answers correctly in comments, 1 point for others. Important point is to avoid "spoilers" place your response between the following tags. [# Ffffff] Your answer [/ # ffffff]. The answer is written in white, which will avoid seeing the responses of other competitors "unintentionally." The comments give an answer without being placed in these tags will be ignored.