Year: 2002

QPS today debuted the Que! DVDBurner+RW, a FireWire DVD+RW drive that will sell for US$650. QPS also introduced the Que! FireWire M5 Combo Drives ($379), which include a combination of CD-RW and hard drive storage, and Que! M5 RAID Drives, which are available with either FireWire (200GB, 240GB and 320GB capacities) or SCSI LVD (72GB and 146GB capacities) connectivity. Pricing for the RAID drives is dependent on configuration. Finally, QPS also announced 2-bay and 5-bay Que! DVD Dupe Towers, which can replicate two or five CD or DVD discs simultaneously.

SanDisk today introduced Cruzer, a pocket-size USB storage device that uses removable and upgradeable flash memory cards for storage. The Cruzer—which measures three inches long, one and three-fourth inches wide and about three-quarters of an inch thick—will accommodate both SD cards and MultiMediaCards. The device requires no extra drivers and is compatible with Mac OS 8.6 and later and Mac OS X.

MacMinute has learned from sources that Time Magazine last night accidentally broke an agreed embargo with Apple regarding its flat-panel iMac story, which was not to have been posted until noon ET today. The story appeared on Time‘s Canadian news Web site. With the embargo now expired, the story appears on Time‘s main page. The embargo did not include the release of the actual magazine, which hit selected newsstands with the flat-panel iMac cover story in New York City last night.

Apple this morning will introduce a revised iBook with a 14-inch screen, MacMinute has confirmed. Also, three flat-panel iMac models will be introduced, topping out with an 800MHz PowerPC G4 processor.

Willow Design has introduced four second-generation slipcases for the PowerBook G4 and iBook: Titanium Two Slipcase (Model SC-08), Titanium Slide Two Slipcase (Model SC-09), iBook ‘Away Two Slipcase (Model SC-10) and iBook Whumph! Two Slipcase (Model SC-11).