Year: 2003

Apple retail stores offer “Early Bird Special” for new PowerBooks

Posted by | Jan 9, 2003 | |

Apple’s retail page has been updated with information on a new “Early Bird Special.” The posting reads, “Order early and you’ll not only be one of the first people to get a new 12″ or 17” PowerBook G4, you’ll also get an official launch t-shirt and a special day at our store. A Mac Specialist will help you choose software and accessories for your new PowerBook and ring up your 10% discount. A Mac Genius will install any new software you buy and answer any questions you have.

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SmartDisk announces Rover MP3 player/USB storage device

Posted by | Jan 9, 2003 | |

SmartDisk today announced its new Rover portable USB data storage device that doubles as an MP3 audio player. “Small, lightweight and sturdy enough to clip to a shirt, and versatile enough to be used as a USB storage device, Rover is simple and easy to use.” The unit slides apart to plug directly into a USB port and is automatically recognized as a removable storage device. The user can then drag and drop music, digital images or data files.

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Apple’s Safari breaks single day download record

Posted by | Jan 8, 2003 | |

During his “Power of X” presentation at Macworld Expo today, Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller announced that Safari, Apple’s new Web browser, has broken the company’s single day download record. Schiller said that since its introduction on Tuesday, Safari has been downloaded 300,000 times. The previous download record for Apple was held by iTunes with 100,000 downloads.

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OWC offers Giga Designs Power Mac G4 CPU upgrades

Posted by | Jan 8, 2003 | |

Other World Computing (OWC) today announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Giga Designs to sell its G-celerator family of Power Mac G4 CPU upgrades. The G-celerators offer user-selectable bus speeds and are compatible with any Apple PowerMac G4 model with an AGP slot made prior to August 2002. The G-celerator GC5-1000-D2 ($559) features a 1.0GHz G4 processor, 64KB of L1 cache, 256KB of L2 cache, and 2MB of DDR RAM.

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