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Web inventor uses Safari, iCal. Tim Berners-Lee -- who invented the World Wide Web in 1990 while working at CERN, the European laboratory for Particle Physics -- said he did his work using a NeXT computer and is a fan of Apple's Safari Web browser, according to Macworld UK. He made the announcements Monday during a lecture at the Royal Society in London, England. [MacCentral]
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Apple Power Mac G5: Neck-and-Neck with Intel PCs. [base "]When Apple's Steve Jobs introduced the Apple Power Mac G5 this summer as the fastest personal computer any company had built to date, we took it with a grain of salt...
[per thou] writes Troy Dreier in PC Magazine, [base "]After testing a loaded ($4,349 direct, after we opted for more RAM and upgraded graphics) dual 2.0-GHz Power Mac G5 on a range of high-end content creation applications and comparing the results with a similarly configured (and priced) Dell Precision 650 Workstation running dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors, we see that indeed the G5 is generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available.[per thou] [Sep 19] [Apple Hot News]
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Virginia Tech prepares to deploy Apple supercomputer. Virginia Polytechnic and State University is racing to deploy its new supercomputer cluster based on Apple Computer Inc.'s G5 desktops by Oct. 1 in order to make the next ranking of the Top 500 list. Faculty and students hope to set up the 1,100-node Terascale Computing Facility by the end of this week, said Lynn Nystrom, a Virginia Tech spokeswoman. The university thinks the new cluster will rank among the top 10 fastest supercomputers deployed at academic institutions, and among the fastest overall in the world, she said. [MacCentral]
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