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ATI Technologies is offering a US$150 instant rebate for customers that would like to trade in their Apple-provided ATI RADEON 7500 or NVIDIA GeForce4 MX for a RADEON 8500 Mac Edition. The trade up program expires on May 31, 2002. RADEON 8500 Mac Edition sells for $299.

Sun Microsystems is considering including some Apple-written code in its Java HotSpot virtual machine to boost performance, according to Macworld UK. The modifications, already a part of the Java implementation in Mac OS X, involve improvements to shared system libraries that reduces the time required to load applications.