- Iwill ZMAXdp Dual-Opteron Barebone

Covering new ground in the SFF biz, the folks at AMDBoard have sourced a press release from IWill Corporation announcing their ZMAXdp barebones system to sport dual AMD Opteron 200-series microprocessors. Quite a nice achievement from IWill given the space constraints involved when building upon an SFF design. The system is based on nVidia's nForce3 Pro 250Gb, in turn also providing all the native features the chipset offers. You can catch all the details over at AMDBoard.

- Dont know what PearPC is? Now you do!

OverclockingHQ have a fresh article up which talks of a software project called "PearPC", basically an emulator. This 'aint no normal piece of emulating software though, to the contrary in fact. It allows one to run "Mac OS X" on X86 based PC's, a nifty feat that one previously thought impossible to accomplish. Although still in very early development stages, frequent updates and supporting info can be found over at PearPC's official site. One should also note the following comments before they get too excited :-

Keep in mind this isn't really a production release, more of a proof of concept release. Emulation is about 1/40 speed, meaning that your 3Ghz processor will behave like a 75Mhz processor. Though, OS X will install; albeit at a crawl. It takes about 5 hours to install the first CD on an Athlon XP 1600+. Installation takes all available resources, preventing anything else from being done simultaneously. It's not possible to throw enough hardware at PearPC for it to truly be usable. For reference, that installation on a relatively modern Mac would take 15-20 minutes.

- Articles and Reviews from around the Web

- Bytecc HotDrive 2.5'' HD Enclosure @ Hi-TechReviews
- Next generation DVD under development @ CoolTechZone
- Abit VT7 Pentium 4 Motherboard @ Trusted Reviews
- OCZ PC3500EB Platinum DDR Memory @ PCStats
- Plextor PX-M402U ConvertX @ Hardware Hell
- Trendnet TK-205i KVM 2 Port Switch Kit @ ExtremeReviews