Cody Taylor

Surely you were warned, most likely by your mother: You shouldn’t swallow gum, because it stays in your digestive system for seven years. But if that were true, what kind of havoc would that wreak?

Apple has unveiled its greenest Macs yet, it’s cut down on bulky packaging, it’s removed some of the worst nasties from its products and it’s now happy to take old computing kit when you buy new Apple kit.So how green is Apple – and is there anything we can do to make it greener still?

On the heels of announcing its plans to bail on Macworld Expo next year, Apple will be instead attending the more generic Consumer Electronics Show in 2010, according to sources familiar with the matter.

arcticstoat writes “AMD is planning to use over 1,000 Radeon HD 4870 GPUs to create a supercomputer capable of processing one petaflop, which the company says will make ‘cloud’ computing a reality. When it’s built later this year, the Fusion Render Cloud will be available as an online powerhorse for a variety of people, from gamers to 3D animators. The company claims that it could ‘deliver video games, PC applications and other graphically-intensive applications through the Internet “cloud” to virtually any type of mobile device with a web browser.’ The idea is that the Fusion Render Cloud will do all the hard work, so all you need is a machine capable of playing back the results, saving battery life and the need for ever greater processing power. AMD also says that the supercomputer will ‘enable remote real-time rendering of film and visual effects graphics on an unprecedented scale.’ Meanwhile, game developers would be able to use the supercomputer to quickly develop games, and also ‘serve up virtual world games with unlimited photo-realistic detail.’ The supercomputer will be powered by OTOY software, which allows you to render 3D visuals in your browser via streaming, compressed online data.”

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ZDNet reports that the iPhone 3.0 firmware will support quad-core processors in an upcoming iPhone hardware revision. While Apple has not yet detailed iPhone 3.0 firmware, MacRumors has independently heard from a reliable source of this same multi-core support in the 3.0 firmware which should accompany the next iPhone.

The new version of the Modbook is made of machined aluminum, finished in black. While its design is clearly not Jon Ive’s, the 0.93-inch Modbook Pro is thinner than the Macbook it is based on, and more elegant and straightforward than their previous model.