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iMac G5: 2-4 shipping days closer to oblivion.

A gold USB stick for your formal file sharing needs.

The Good Mr. Mossbergis review compares the MacBook Pro to a late-model PowerBook G4 and HPis Pavilion dv5000t laptop. He rates Appleis new laptop as better than the PowerBook G4 and better than HPis laptop. Mr. Pogue lets the MacBook Pro stand on its own in his review. He adds a spin to Appleis own…

The iMac G5 was replaced at the Macworld Expo in January by the newer Intel Core Duo-based iMac. Apple has been selling both G5 and Intel-based iMacs ever since. The company phased out the 17-inch G5 model a few weeks ago without any fanfare, and most recently phased out the 15-inch PowerBook G4. The PowerBook,…

Last year, Apple shipped 4.5 million Macs. The introduction of the Intel-based Mac in January, and the MacBook Pro which started shipping on February 14, are expected to help boost Mac sales. The transition of the rest of the Mac product line from G4 and G5 chips to the Intel Core chip should be completed…

He explained: “Both VMWare and Microsoft are promising Intel optimized virtualization software that will run any version of Windows, Linux, or BSD with minimal overhead. ” However, the downside to that solution is the need for a licensed copy of Windows, as well as the fact that graphics are still emulated, which rules out gaming.…

In response, Mr. Boger said: “We tested it two ways. We ran industry-standard benchmarks. SPEC has two types of tests — the integer [test] was three times faster, and floating point was twice as fast. That shows the potential of what the architecture can do.” He added that other reviewers may not have seen the…

Once entered in Yojimbo, data can be encrypted according to the AES-256 algorithm standard and it can be used with Mac OS X Sync Services to stay current with a .Mac account. In addition, Yojimbo takes advantage of Spotlight searches, as well as its own search engine, and uses Core Data frameworks to store data.…

iSuppli senior analyst Andrew Rassweiler noted that those two items account for 35% of the BOM (bill of materials) cost in the new iMac. Other major integrated circuits in the computer include a $30 northbridge for the ATI Radeon X1600 video card and $20 for GDDR SDRAM (256Mbit x 4) from Samsung. The iMac also…

Those who watched Jobsi keynote though will have heard very a different story. During a demo of the new Intel-based Macs, Jobs admitted – to the dismay of professional users everywhere – that Rosetta, the technology used to run PowerPC only Mac applications on Intel Macs, wasnit good enough for professionals. After a demonstration of…

Mr. Oppenheimeris comments were delivered in response to a question from Rob Stempl of Credit Suisse First Boston. In a follow-up from Morgan Stanleyis Rebecca Runkle, she asked for specifics, and the CFO replied: “We received reports from a number of customers from different markets that they were postponing purchases pending Macworldis announcement. However, our…

Monday morning we headed to the Moscone centre to get our badges and then headed out to Cupertino to see the Apple campus. We took CalTrain out to Sunnyvale and grabbed the bus to Cupertino. As I approached Infinite Loop, I took a few snapshots and a nice woman working for Apple made a comment…