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Apple Ships 733 MHz PowerMacs With SuperDrives, Right On Time!
Apple® today announced it has begun shipping its new 733 MHz Power Mac™ G4 with the SuperDrive, a combination CD-RW/DVD-R drive that can read and write CDs as well as DVDs that can be played in consumer DVD players. Apple unveiled the SuperDrive at MACWORLD Expo in San Francisco last month. The Power Mac G4…
Remembering 1984 With The Mac 128K, Apple //c, & Education Ad (With Pics)
As part of our series of articles remembering the early days of Apple, the Mac, and computing we bring you two more great ads from Apple. Observer Charles Mangin has sent us several vintage Apple ads (and a really great Microsoft ad from 1983 we will share with you later :-), including these two ads…
Remembering 1984 With A Macintosh & Lisa Brochure (With Pics) [Updated]
The ProFile was the 5MB disk that in the brochure is sitting on top of the Lisa. I believe this was also used with the Apple II, but I donit recall. The 10MB disk was code-named the "Widget" and it was an internal hard drive. Thanks for the information Larry! Last week, we brought you…
Remembering 1984 With An Original Mac Magazine Article (With Pics)
Tim Mityok, president of Public Access Software, has sent us a gem. The Computers & Electronics magazine dedicated its March 1984 cover, along with two articles for 7 pages of content, to the first born of the platform that you happily use today. The writer in question, Vanessa Schnatmeier, did a good job at describing…
Ready Or Not, The Titanium PowerBook G4 Ships! (With Pics)
During yesterdayis Financial Analyst meeting, it was clear that Steve Jobs, Fred Anderson, and Phil Schiller were quite proud of having gotten these machines out the door on time. Apple will be archiving the meeting until February 28th. For those who can not get a stream, we provided live coverage of the four hour event…
Interested In Making Mac Games? Here's An Interview You Should Read
Our friends at iDevGames.com have posted an interview that will be of interest to Mac gamers, especially people interested in making Mac games. The site has interviewed Mark Adams, the now-legendary cofounder of Westlake Interactive. Westlake Interactive has been the porting house behind most (but not all) of the top Mac games you have played…
Connectix Allows Mac's and PC's To Live In Harmony
Connectix Corporation, makers of the best-selling and award-winning Virtual PC? family of products, today announced Connectix DoubleTalk, a software application for the Macintosh that allows users to access Windows networks from their Mac. This new product is designed for the Mac user who has little or no Windows knowledge, but needs to share resources, such…
A PowerBook G4? Be Still, My Wallet...
align=”center”> "I have seen the future, and it will be" — Prince, "The Future"
iDVD: Create DVDs with Your Mac, Play Them On Your TV
Todayis keynote brought a number of multimedia surprises. One of the more welcome surprises helps answer the question that many current owners of DVD-RAM drives have, namely, “but can I record DVD movies with it?”. Unfortunately, the answer for DVD-RAM owners was no. But with the introduction of the new iDVD and DVD Studio Pro…
Fuzzy Logic - The Importance Of The Mac: What's In A Pretty Face?
The Importance Of The Mac: What’s In A Pretty Face? December 27th, 2000 Since the beginning, Apple Computer has been accused of making toys. The Apple II in the late seventies was one of the first personal computers, a concept that in itself was ridiculous to many (why on Earth would a private individual want…
iBrotha - Mac Daddy Psychoanalyzes George Clinton, Apple Spiffs & other Cupertino Flaws
Mac Daddy Psychoanalyzes George Clinton, Apple Spiffs & other Cupertino Flaws December 19th, 2000 The company says they’re revolutionaries J. Michael Straczynski, Rising Stars [Editor’s note: He’s back! This week, Rodney (re)introduces us to "Mac Daddy," an imaginary friend and fellow Mac user who is always quick to set forth his culturally-biased opinion on…
Blizzard Entertainment Does More For Mac Gaming Than Apple
Thatis a stinging title, I know, but itis true. Blizzard Entertainment is doing more for Mac gaming than Apple, and I think that is sad. What is Blizzard doing, you may ask? They mention the word Macintosh in a TV ad about a computer game. That, my friends, is more than Apple seems to be…
3dfx To Cease Making Their Own Cards, Voodoo (For Mac) Line Continues
When 3dfx announced the Voodoo3, shortly after their acquisition of board manufacturer STB, the company also announced that they would begin to make their own cards instead of licensing the technology to others. This is when the company also began to support the Mac for the first time with an extended series of beta drivers…
Mac Architecture Site On The Move
Architosh, the only site examing architecture and CAD from a Macintosh perspective, is on the move. After having problems with their prior hosting company, Los Angeles’ Reprahduce.com, the site is currently negotiating to switch providers in hope of continuing to serve the Mac community. According to Architosh: BritasMedia, the publisher of the Architosh.com Web site…
But I Digress... - The Mac Is The Smartest OS? Not For Everyone
The Mac Is The Smartest OS? Not For Everyone November 10th, 2000 Two weeks ago, we looked together at the Mac OS and briefly, the theories of Howard Gardner, Professor of Education at Harvard University. Today, I am going to flesh out those original thoughts, and present you with an entirely different way of looking…
Why Are Apple's Laptops A Year Behind Dell's?
"What? Pitiful? XGA resolution of 1024×768? Are you crazy?" Yes, thatis just what I mean. In case you havenit noticed, Dell and IBM have had laptops with much higher screen resolution for a couple of years. 1280×1024. 1400×1100. And finally, this fall, one of the mythic milestones was passed. Dell introduced a laptop whose 15-inch…
iBrotha - Wanna appreciate your Mac? Try using a PC
Wanna appreciate your Mac? Try using a PC November 6th, 2000 If you want to know what water is, don’t ask a fish. Chinese proverb For the last few months, I’ve been settling into a new job. Also, for the last two months, I’ve been playing with OS X Public Beta. There’s a…
Fuzzy Logic - The Usefulness Of Net Speed & How To Get It For The Mac
The Usefulness Of Net Speed & How To Get It For The Mac November 1st, 2000 "Broadband" Internet is slowly spreading over the world, taking root in the urban areas first. Actually Steve Jobs expresses the opinion that it makes more sense to just call it "fast Internet," since to most folks "broadband" makes as…
The Mac Observer: On The Flip Side - Group Thinking & The Macintosh Explained
Group Thinking & The Macintosh Explained October 31st, 2000 To be a Mac user, you have to think differently. We have to go past the usual "I stick with what I know" barrier and adventure into the unknown. No matter what we say about Mac users, we all know one thing: we like something other…
[Review] Dual Processor Power Mac G4: The Multiprocessing G4 Reviewed
Introduction The unit came with two 450 MHz PowerPC processors, 128 MB RAM, DVD-ROM, a 20 GB hard disk drive, an internal Zip drive, a SCSI adapter card, gigabit Ethernet, 16 MB ATI Rage 128 video card and Mac OS 9.0.4, without modem. It has 2 USB ports, 2 FireWire ports, Apple Display Connector, power,…
Star Trek Voyager Elite Force For Mac Reaches Final Candidate Status
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, just to recap, is a first person shooter set in the franchise of the Star Trek universe. It utilizes the well known and well liked Quake III engine and is being described as one of the best games to come out since Halflife. High praise, but we will have to…
But I Digress... - The Hip Factor: The Mac's Shift From Cool To Hip
The Hip Factor: The Mac’s Shift From Cool To Hip September 29th, 2000 If you read this month’s Macworld, and this month’s MacAddict, you aren’t likely to notice more than the usual distinctions between the two unless you look really closely at the magazines. Sure, Macworld and MacAddict differ wildly as publications, but there’s always…
The Ongoing Conflict: iMac Budget, Power Mac Taste
The most obvious problem is its built-in monitor. Yes, 15" isnit a bad size. But monitor prices have been dropping steadily, and many consumers now want a larger 17" or even 19" screen. While the iMac does offer video-out, you are still stuck buying a 15" monitor, and you canit use multiple monitors to display…