Year: 2001

MacMinute has learned that Apple has added previous-generation 600MHz iMacs (Blue Dalmatian M7675LL/A, Flower Power M7679LL/A, and Graphite M7680LL/A) to its Snap It Up promotion, which offers customers a US$150 rebate or free HP PhotoSmart 318xi digital camera. In short, all 600MHz and 700MHz iMacs that are purchased as new are now eligible for the promotion. Apple has yet to update its materials with this information, however.

One of Taiwan’s largest notebook computer makers today dismissed rumors that it had won a contract from Apple to manufacture 600,000 handhelds. Inventec Corp. manufactures PDAs, but said it knows nothing of a contract with Apple. “Several [of] our top executives met this morning and no one knows anything about winning Apple orders,” Inventec Finance Manager Lee Kui-lan told Reuters.

Apple reportedly lost $50 million to $75 million as a direct result of the September 11 attacks, according to a Bloomberg News report that quoted Apple controller Peter Oppenheimer. The losses came as a result of reduced consumer demand and the disruption in air traffic that crimped supplies of components and deliveries of computers. Oppenheimer added that “it’s difficult to tell” how much of the lost business will return, due to the continued weakness of the economy.

Quantic Dream has announced that Fahrenheit, its upcoming 3D real-time television series, will be available for both the Mac and PC in early 2002. The interactive adventure game will be released in episodic form on a monthly basis. In Fahrenheit, players take on the role of the hunter and the fugitive in a para-normal thriller set in Manhattan that unfolds gradually as new episodes are released.