Year: 2002

Apple today announced that Dr. Guy “Bud” Tribble has returned to the company as vice president of Software Technology. Tribble’s roll will be to help define Apple’s software engineering group’s technical direction, and he will be reporting to Avie Tevanian, senior Apple vice president of Software Engineering. Tribble began his career at Apple as manager of the original Macintosh Software team, and helped design the Mac OS and user interface. Most recently, Tribble was vice president of Engineering at Eazel, Inc.

The SuperDrive in Apple’s new iMac (DVR-104) is a newer and faster model than the SuperDrive the company uses in its Power Mac G4 (DVR-103), AccelerateYourMac! notes. Both drives write DVDs at 2x, CD-R at 8x and read CDs at 24x, but the iMac SuperDrive writes CD-RW discs at 8x compared to 4x, and reads DVDs at 6x compared to 4x.

XLR8 today reduced prices on its MACh Speed and MACh Carrier lines of G3 and G4 upgrades. Specifics on the MACh Speed reductions are unavailable at this time, while the Carrier products, which allow users to add faster ZIF processors to their non-ZIF-based Power Macs, have been reduced as follows: Carrier ZIF: US$79 ($30 lower), Carrier MPe $99 ($20 lower), and Carrier SSE: $119 ($30 lower).

Our Day One photo gallery contains dozens of photos from the Macworld Expo show floor.