Brand: MacNews

Amazon.com today launched its new computers store today, carrying several brands, including Apple. Prices are set at suggested retail — for a limited time Amazon is offering free shipping.

Sig Software has announced the release of Classic Menu for Mac OS X. Classic Menu brings the classic Mac OS Apple Menu to Mac OS X, replacing the system’s built-in Apple Menu, while keeping it within easy reach. Sig Software is also offering a bundle of Classic Menu and Drop Drawers for US $20 — a 20% savings.

The Omni Group has updated their popular Web browser for Mac OS X. OmniWeb 4.0.5 offers several bug fixes, feature additions, language updates (Spanish, Dutch and Italian) and other tweaks. A full list of changes is available from the site.

Pangea Software has released Cro-Mag Rally 2.0, as noted by VersionTracker, although servers are currently overloaded. The new version should be fully Carbonized for Mac OS X; other changes are not yet known.

Intel today demonstrated a new technology called “hyperthreading” that takes advantage of unused circuitry in the Pentium 4, making a single processor appear as two and boosting performance by as much as 30 percent. The technology isn’t expected to be ready until 2002 or 2003, however. Intel also demonstrated a 3.5GHz Pentium 4, which managed to run four games of Quake 3 at the same time without a hitch.