Year: 2002

Apple drops prices on previous Power Mac G4

Posted by | Jan 28, 2002 | |

In the wake of Apple’s new Power Mac G4 systems introduced today, the company has reduced pricing on previous-generation models. Minimum advertised pricing (MAP) for the dual-800MHz configuration has dropped by US$1,000 to $2,499, while the 867MHz and 733MHz configurations carry $1,999 and $1,299 price tags, respectively (reductions of $500 and $400). While these older systems are not available directly from Apple, they are still available from countless resellers.

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New iMac begins shipping; 150,000 pre-orders

Posted by | Jan 28, 2002 | |

Apple today announced that it has begun shipping the high-end iMac configuration. Additionally, Apple has taken more than 150,000 pre-orders for the new iMac, more than all of the pre-orders it took for the original iMac in 1998. “It’s sure looking like the new iMac is going to be a huge hit with both Mac users and PC switchers,” Phil Schiller, Apple VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, said in a statement.

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CodeWarrior for Mac OS, Pro, Release 7.2 Update

Posted by | Jan 28, 2002 | , |

Software Updates: CodeWarrior for Mac OS, Professional Edition, Release 7.2
Update

See
(http://www.metrowerks.com/download/index.taf?function=detail&updates_uid=294)
for more details.

Warning

This update should only be applied to a CodeWarrior Pro 7.1 installation.
If you do not already have Pro 7.1 installed, please download and install
that patch before applying the Pro 7.2 update.

The CodeWarrior for Mac OS, Professional Edition, Release 7.2 update is a
maintenance release of the PPC PEF, PPC Mach-O, and x86 compilers, linkers,
and command line tools.

Complete release

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Apple Unveils Dual 1-GHz Power Mac G4

Posted by | Jan 28, 2002 | , |

Apple Unveils Dual 1-GHz Power Mac G4
Digital Powerhouse for Creative Professionals

CUPERTINO, California-January 28, 2002-Apple=AE today announced the ultimate
digital powerhouse for creative professionals-the new Power Mac=81 G4
featuring dual 1-GHz PowerPC G4 processors, the industry’s first NVIDIA
GeForce4 graphics card and a DVD/CD burning SuperDrive=81, priced at just
$2,999(US).

Delivering an amazing 15 gigaflops (15 billion floating point operations
per second), the dual 1-GHz Power Mac G4 runs professional applications
like Adobe Photoshop up to 72 percent faster and enco

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