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October 19, 2005
New PowerMacs and PowerBooks
In what could be one of their last updates before the switch to Intel, Apple's PowerMac and PowerBook lineups are now a little more powerful. Here are the major changes:
PowerBooks
- Still G4s processors, 12-inch: 1.5GHz, 15/17-inch: 1.67GHz
- All models come with SuperDrives
- 15- and 17-inch PBs now have 5.5 hours of battery life, 12-inch now has 5 hours
- 15-inch now has 1440 x 960 display, 17-inch now has 1680 x 1050
- 80GB hard drive in 12- and 15-inch models, 120GB on the 17-inch
- Built-in optical digital audio output on 15- and 17-inch models
- 128MB VRAM graphics cards for 15/17-inch PBs
- 512MB memory standard on all models
PowerMacs
- New "Quad-Core G5" with two dual-core 2.5GHz G5 chips, four processors in all
- PCI Express expansion slots
- New graphics cards with as much as 512MB of VRAM
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October 12, 2005
Adam Curry on Front Row Demo
Looks like whoever was demoing Apple's new iMac G5's Front Row feature was subscribed to Adam Curry's Daily Source Code. Check out this screenshot in the middle of the music portion of the demo.
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October 02, 2005
EverythingDigital Podcast 2005-10-02
The iPod nano, iTunes 5, the ROKR phone, problems with defective iPod nano screens, SanDisk's hopes for a replacement to CDs, the RIM BlackBerry's plan to use Intel chips, Dell's new XPS models, and RealNetwork's agreement with Cingular to stream video content to phones.
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