Apple embraces Intel and spurns PowerPC platform

Apple is to abandon the PowerPC platform and move all its Macs to Intel processors by 2007. The first Intel-based machines will be available a year from now. Apple embraces Intel and spurns PowerPC platform To move all its Macs to Intel processors by 2007, with the first Intel-based machines to be available a year from now Apple is to abandon the PowerPC platform and move all its Macs to Intel processors by 2007. ...more

Home Office issues consultation document on ID cards

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Price check: DVD burners

Barely two months ago, when we last looked at DVD burners, the cheapest around was a -R burner at ?121. Now they've broken the ?100 barrier. The commoditising powers of Sony and HP and their +R format have enabled drives of this flavour to dominate the lower range. ...more

LaCie announces dual-interface back-up drive

LaCie has announced a 70Gb tape back-up drive with support for both FireWire and USB connections. The drive can write up to 70Gb of compressed data on an AIT1 8mm tape at a rate of 8Mb per second, or 28.8Gb per hour. ...more

UK games chart: Hitman shoots its way to top of charts

Hitman: Blood Money (for PC, PS2, X360, Xb) has shot to number one in this week's ELSPA games chart. A new entry from Eidos, the action-shooter game once again features the hired-gun Agent 47, travelling through New Orleans, Los Angeles and Mississippi, and the dirty work of the ICA, which is definitely not the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The long-running previous number one, EA Sports' FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 (PC, PS2, Xbox and Xb360), drops down to two. ...more