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Houston Chronicle columnist Bob LeVitus has had his iBook for a month now and is even more enthusiastic about the new consumer portable from Apple. “…the iBook is the best-equipped and most reasonably priced notebook computer Apple has ever built, and every bit as elegant and stylish as its more powerful, more expensive sibling, the PowerBook G4 Titanium,” says LeVitus.

Macworld UK is reporting on a Dataquest study published yesterday stating that the DRAM (dynamic random access memory) market will be worth 55.5 percent less this year — this due to falling chip prices. According to the study, worldwide DRAM revenue is projected to fall from US$31.5 billion in 2000, to $14 billion in 2001. Macworld UK has the full story.

Koingo Software has released Password Retriever 1.9, a handy utility for storing and organizing passwords for just about anything. Version 1.9 offers a number of new features and modifications. Details are included in the download. The following link is also a demo version. [ 741k ]

When Joel Kuwahara’s Internet-based employer closed its doors, he ventured halfway around the world to Dharamsala, India — the location of the Tibetan government in exile. His mission — to help train Buddhist monks to archive and preserve the teachings of the 14th Dalai Lama. He used a 733 MHz Power Mac G4 and a 15″ Apple Studio Display to start work on the task, reports Apple’s Hot News page.

PC World is carrying an article on USB 2.0, the next-generation of the USB interface that offers substantially faster transfer speeds. While the new technology has been slow in coming, vendors are getting onboard and say that we should see should see a wider rollout of products later this year.