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Sinbad is Still Alive, Also a Gigantic Mac Nerd

This video, found on the VMWare Fusion Site, illustrates not only that Sinbad hasn't passed away—as many of us previously thought—but he's a gigantic nerd on the caliber of Gizmodo readers. Just listen to what he says regarding how he runs Windows and OS X simultaneously and marvel at how much more he knows about Macs and virtual machines than even some of your own friends. [VMWare]

2:05 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Jason Chen
6,335 views, 38 comments

Latest by TurboFool: I had the good fortune of working with Sinbad many, many years ago, and stayed in contact with him for more »

laptops

Suit Up Your Laptop

One thing that Apple has bashed into our heads, what with all of the Mac vs. PC commercials, is that Macs aren't very accepted in the stodgy corporate world. More »

10:00 PM on Wed Apr 18 2007
By blongo3
3,811 views, 8 comments

peripherals

NERV Mouse for Anime Nerds

Any anime nerd worth their weight in Pocky has seen Evangelion, the prototypical brainfrak anime that fans cite when they want to show how much deeper Japanese fare is than, say, Jackie Chan Adventures. Now you can get your own NERV-inspired mouse, complete with NERV leaf, red laser glow and Apple-ish design. More »

7:20 PM on Wed Feb 14 2007
By Jason Chen
3,132 views, 9 comments

Latest by Evangelion: omg... EVANGELION IS GOD!!!!! more »

gadgets

Server With Eight Hyperthreaded Dual Core Chips Goes 32-ways: Windows Goes Schitzo

Last week, a reader sent in a photo of Windows Task manager showing off a multiprocessing machine's sixteen gonads. Not bad, pretty cool. In the spirit of one-up-man-ship, I present this: An IBM System x3950 server with eight CPUs, All hyperthreaded Xeons.
The result? Windows goes schitzo seeing 32 separate processors. Eric Long, who submitted this screenshot tells us the machine has 32GB of RAM, and is used to do the back end on "This call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes" type voice systems. More »

11:07 AM on Fri Sep 8 2006
By Brian Lam
375 views, 8 comments

Latest by YellowDucati: in reply to middy "You'd think none of us had ever heard of Sun Sparc servers with 72 processors that *actually more »

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Mad Hatter's Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways


This one goes out to all my IT homies. More »