With consumer desktop CPU’s reaching 8-cores per CPU, we can expect to see similar tech find it’s way into our upcoming tablets and mobile CPUs. Playstation’s Vita for example features a mobile GPU with 4 cores! It’s called the SGX543MP4. It’s little brother, the the SGX543MP2 is a dual-core variant and it is at work in Apple’s iPad 2.

In OpenGL benchmark tests (3D Graphics and User Interface) the iPad 2 is 4x faster then the original iPad and 3x faster then the Motorola Xoom. 1.

• SGX543MP2 – 2 cores -iPad2 – 67M polygons – 2Gpixels/sec @200MHz
• SGX543MP4 -4 cores- PS Vita- 134M polygons – 4Gpixels/sec @200 MHz

The PS Vita as mentioned early has a 4-core GPU and a 4-core CPU. That’s double the power in half the size of an iPad 2. It’s only logical assume that Apple’s next iPad will be at the very minimum 4x faster than it’s predecessor. I don’t think it is out of the question to expect a 4, or possibly even 8-core A6 chip in the iPad 3.

Apple’s WWDC 2011 keynote just wrapped up and we heard some good news. Steve Jobs said that OS X Lion will be available this July, and it will only cost $29! No extra costs for physical distribution or media means apple can let it go for much less.

4 Great New Features in OS X Lion:

1. AirDrop – With AirDrop in Mac OS X Lion, you can send files to anyone around you —  wirelessly. AirDrop doesn’t require setup or special settings. Just click the AirDrop icon in the Finder sidebar, and your Mac automatically discovers other people nearby who are using AirDrop
2. Resume – Whenever you quit and relaunch an app, Resume opens it precisely the way you left it. So you never have to start from scratch again.
3. Mission Control – Mission Control is a powerful and handy new feature that provides you with a comprehensive look at what’s running on your Mac. It gives you a bird’s-eye view of everything
4. Mail 5 – Demo’d in the recent Keynote, Apple’s Mail 5 has a beautifully updated user interface with some exiting new features like threaded messaging.

Check out all of the sweet new features here.

FireFox 5 brings some cool features to the table. Specifically CSS animations. Although only available for Intel Macs through Mozzila, The TenFourFox team has already ported us a PowerPC version.

You can learn even more about the awesome features that TenFourFox features by following the link below.

TenFourFox Five is available here.

Sad news for Apple fans everywhere as Apple has now introduced a proprietary connector for SATA drives in it’s new lineup of 2011 iMacs.

“For the main 3.5″ SATA hard drive bay in the new 2011 machines, Apple has altered the SATA power connector itself from a standard 4-pin power configuration to a 7-pin configuration. Hard drive temperature control is regulated by a combination of this cable and Apple proprietary firmware on the hard drive itself. From our testing, we’ve found that removing this drive from the system, or even from that bay itself, causes the machine’s hard drive fans to spin at maximum speed and replacing the drive with any non-Apple original drive will result in the iMac failing the Apple Hardware Test (AHT).” - OWC Blog

Here’s to hoping a remedy is just around the corner.

But you’re gonna have to leave your friends and guild behind (or convince them to move to a free server) Here’s How You Do It:

1. Visit xtremetop100.com/world-of-warcraft and sign up for any server that supports 3.3.5 (Almost every server does)
2. If you have already patched your current version of WOW to 4.0 from 3.3.5, you will have to reinstall.
3. Go to wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors. Using the links provided, download and patch your WOW install all the way to 3.3.5
4. Before you log in you must first patch your realmlist.wtf file, so you log onto the private server and not Blizzards. To do this navigate to Applications ->World of Warcraft->Data->enUS->realmlist.wtf. Open with text edit and replace the first line with the serer address provided by the private server. Save the file.
5. You can now log in and play WOW on your PowerPC.

If you are having trouble I would be happy to help you out. Just leave a post below in the comments.

Some of the best apps , are the smallest apps. Here is a list of my favorite OS X menubar apps.

1. F.lux – It makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. (You need to try it to get the full effect)
2. MenuMeters – A set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools, nestled away in your menubar
3. CalendarBar – Supports Facebook, iCal, and Google Calendar so you can keep track of all your events with ease

Shown but not mentioned is the menubar icon for Dropbox.

Apple’s pro video and film editing app is finally getting a fully Cocoa-fied, 64-bit rewrite, including a UI overhaul and underlying support for full background rendering.

The rewritten app takes full advantage of underlying Mac OS X technologies introduced in Snow Leopard, including OpenCL, GCD, Quicktime X, and Core Animation, to deliver background rendering. Final Cut Pro X can now natively handle up to 4K resolutions as well as the ability to automatically scale CPU-intensive tasks to fully utilize multicore processors and offload certain tasks to available GPUs.

Available June, $299

This is the future now, right? Okay, I thought so. Here are some of the coolest new apps of 2011!

1. Boxcar -Instant push notifications for your social networks, email accounts, RSS feeds and more.
2. AlterVideo Safari Extension – Force flash/embedded videos to use the HTML5 video player when possible.
3. Moso -Moso is a new app that makes editing and sharing videos fast, easy and fun.
4. CalendarBar -CalendarBar is a unique way to keep track of your events. It shows a list of upcoming events in your menubar where it’s easy to access from any application.

I sit here, at my desk in front of my Faithful MDD PowerMac G4 writing a blog post on the new Firefox 4.0. To most of you this means nothing, as there are only a handful of people still using PowerPC based Apple computers. But those who sunk over $2k into a new mac five years ago deserve to be able to run the best browser around. Thanks to a project called TenFourFox PowerPC users now have access to a fully optimized version of Mozilla’s newest browser. They have builds optimized for PowerPC G3, G4, and G5 CPUs.

The build is very solid and javascript speeds beat out Safari 5 in TenFourFox.

Download TenFourFox Here

From the OWC Blog. -”“A wide range of testing – by both internal and leading external performance sites – is in progress on our first to market 12GB and 16GB OWC ‘MaxRAM’ memory options for the 2011 MacBook Pro,” said Larry O’Connor, Founder and CEO, Other World Computing. “Our initial confirmed results, using the same ‘diglloydMedium’ CS5 testing parameters employed by macperformanceguide.com, reveals a nearly 50% performance improvement with 16GB of RAM installed vs. the factory maximum of 8GB.”

High performance PC3-10600 DDR3 1333MHz 8GB memory modules are still very expensive. $1599 is required if you are looking to get the most from your new quad-core MacBook Pro.