Apple’s value of stock shares exceeded that of Google’s today

Filed Under (money, news) by Abbas on 15-08-2008

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Apple's value of stock shares surpassed that of Google's

Apple’s value of stock shares summed up to $157 billion today, hence exceeded the $156 billion stock shares value of Google, says Slashdot. Thats quite an achievement surpassing a giant like Google, but its mostly because of the the superb marketing tactics Apple uses to sell its products. Apple has also left alot of big players like Intel,  HP & Dell way behind now, infact Apple’s worth 3 times the value of Dell now.

What do you think about Apple’s current position in the Market? Is Apple gonna keep conquering the market at pace or is it just a temporary jump because of the current Iphone & MacBook Air hype? Share your thoughts by commenting.

Apple’s Macs going to get dedicated video chips?

Filed Under (Apple, Blu-Ray, video) by Abbas on 12-08-2008

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Word on the street is, Apple is working on dedicated video chips for their Mac line of computers. The rumored video hardware, which currently is “pure speculation” will supposedly loosen the load on Mac computers’ CPUs by taking the responsibility of most of the video processing activities. The video processing chips will support decoding H.264 videos, which by the way, is one of the codecs being used in Blu-Ray High definition video discs.

Alley Insider, which is the source of this speculation went as far as saying that Apple will be adding this dedicated video hardware to all of its upcoming Mac computers.

…the rumor I have heard, that I believe to be a fact, that has simply yet to be confirmed. I have heard that Apple plans to add hardware video decoding to ALL of its new computers beginning fairly soon, certainly this year.

Well this is good news for all you Apple-lovin’ folks out there, lets wait and see what else Apple’s got for all your geeky needs.
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