A spokesperson for Microsoftis Mac Business Unit told The Mac Observer Thursday that plans are on track for an October delivery date. “We anticipate that Virtual PC 7 with Win XP Professional and Home will release to manufacturing in September and be on store shelves by early October,” a company statement said. “Virtual PC 7…
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Oppenheimer: iMac Delays Due to G5 Problems at IBM
Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer revealed during a quarterly earnings conference call with analysts that the new iMac that will begin shipping in September will be powered by the PowerPC G5 processor, but that an IBM chip shortage was behind the delay of the new consumer Apple desktop not being released sooner. Mr. Oppenheimer…
MacVault 2.0 Beta Version Released
Chronopath, Inc., today, has released MacVault 2, a new upgrade to its data organization app. MacVault is an application designed to let you effortlessly organize your serial numbers, passwords, credit cards, or any other information into different categories. This version of MacVault is rewritten in Cocoa from the ground up. It also features an improved…
IBM Points The Way To Mobile G5s
One of the items most mobile Mac users have on their wish list is a G5-powered PowerBook. Such a device, thus far, seems many months away, to say the least. The current crop of G5 processors, exclusively produced by IBM, require hefty heat management in the form of heat sinks and liquid cooling that can’t…
Dr. Mac: Rants & Raves - Drum Machines on Your Mac: Not for Drummers Only
When it comes to creating drum tracks, GarageBand kinda sucks. Sure you can use loops and many of them sound fantastic, but if you want to record drum tracks from scratch, your choices are as follows: Record real drums one track at a time, which is both difficult and tedious. Record Software Instrument drums using…
Default Folder X Updated With Dialog Synchronizing
St. Clair Software is happy to announce the availability of Default Folder X 1.9.4, the latest revision of its Eddy Award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs. Default Folder X 1.9.4 now offers the option to keep Open and Save dialogs "synchronized" so they always point to the same folder, and gives users control…
Ihnatko - I Love AppleScript Studio
Studio Sessions Boy, the more I work with AppleScript Studio, the more I love the thing. I don’t use any commercial apps to maintain and manage my weblog. When I started YellowText in 1995, the word "blog" didn’t even exist. A simple script to automatically upload an HTML file to my webserver became a…
Apple Announces 2.5 GHz Dual G5 Power Macs
Apple announced today a long-awaited and much anticipated update to the Power Mac G5 product line. The company has announced a new lineup that includes 1.8 GHz, 2.0 GHz, and 2.5 GHz units, all with dual processors. The dual 2.5 GHz unit includes two independent 1.25 GHz front-side busses that Apple says supports data throughput…
iPontificate: The Mac is Dead, Long Live iPod!
The Mac is Dead, Long Live iPod! That’s the word from a lot of so-called Mac pundits concerning the news last week that Apple is creating a separate iPod division within the company. Once again, these guys must be in need of a boost in readers, because we all know that the easiest way to…
A Low-Cost Graphic Card Solution For Old Macs
E arlier this year, I wrote an article for TMO entitled, "Low-Cost Graphic Card Solutions For Macs." In it, I mentioned my "quest" to find a replacement graphic card for my G4 Sawtooth model. This is a great little machine and I hope to get 2 or 3 more years of use from it, especially…
TMO Scoop - Mac Office 2004 Ships (W/Screen Shots)
T MOis Devilis Advocate, John Kheit, received notice from the Apple Store yesterday that his copy of Mac Office 2004 had shipped, and it did indeed arrive last night. TMO contacted Microsoft to verify that the product was shipping in wide release, and a spokesperson confirmed that the newest Mac Office was in stores. An…
May 1 - 8: Big Blue Becomes Cloner, The iMac is Born!
[Authors Note: Owen and I are still behind in this series, but we are committed to getting caught up by Macworld Boston. Look for a blast of This Week in Apple History installments during the next two weeks. – Bryan] Do the Floppy Shuffle! Ah, remember the good ol’ days of constantly switching out floppy…
SGI To Sell Maya Maker Alias, Mac Version To Continue
< A href="https://www.sgi.com/">Silicon Graphics Inc. has agreed to sell its Alias Systems unit, makers of the Maya 3D animation and effects software, to Accel-KKR for US$57.5 million, the companies jointly announced Thursday. Alias President Doug Walker said the sale will be good for the overall future of Alias Systems. “This exciting new partnership enables Alias…
Austrailian Government Office Switches To Macs
By many accounts, Apple’s Switch campaign has been a success. Apple claims that as much as 50% of Mac sales in its retail stores can be attributed to people new to the Mac platform and ex-Windows users. Apple still has a section of its Web site dedicated to convincing those considering making the move to…
Apple Rolls Out 1.25 GHz eMac At US$799, US$599 For Education [Updated]
[Update: We have updated this story with information on Apple’s education eMac models – Editor] Apple Computer announced today a speed bump for its eMac desktop models, starting at US$799 for the low-end, 1.25 GHz model. The two models include a new and faster ATI Radeon graphics chip and a jump from USB 1.1 to…
MacPlay To Ship TRON 2.0 For Mac In May
MacPlay, a subsidiary of United Developers, LLC, and Buena Vista Interactive, a publishing label of Buena Vista Games, Inc., today announced plans to release TRON 2.0, the award-winning action game, for Mac computers in May 2004. Developed by critically acclaimed Monolith Productions, TRON 2.0 is an action-packed story-driven title inspired by TRON, the groundbreaking science-fiction…
Federal Computing Weekly On The Power Mac G5
Apple’s Power Mac G5 product line continues to pull in positive reviews from nearly every corner of the computing landscape, from mainstream press reviews to reports from special interest users such as scientists and mathematicians. Even government users have had good things to say about Apple’s pro-computers, and today we have another example of that…
March 14 - 20: Lots Of Mac History, 1 Million Macs, "Wicked Fast," Tell-All Book, Darwin
This was a big week in Apple history. In fact, this is our largest installment of this series to date. We have some tit-for-tat shenanigans from Steve Jobs (1985), the millionth Mac (all six of them) (1987), and a lawsuit from Apple over Windows (1988), and the officially "wicked fast" Mac IIfx (1990). That’s right,…
Vote For Me If You Want A Headless iMac
Chief Bubba of the National Headless iMac Committee. If Iim elected I will personally ensure that every American who wants one gets a powerful, relatively inexpensive headless iMac. I will personally hold Steve Jobs accountable for ignoring the cries of thousands, nay, millions of Mac users begging for a headless iMac. I will make it…
Apple Launches RAM Promo For New Macs
A pple has launched a new promo through the Apple Store Hot Deals page. Itis called, simply enough, More memory for less," and as the name implies, you can get more RAM for less. Apple is offering up to US$700 off the price of RAM upgrades on Power Mac G5s, Xserve G5, iMac, and Power…
Geeks Make Good On Macs
Every Mac user knows the story, or ought to: The Two Steves, Wozniak and Jobs, created and sold computers from their parents’ garage, and worked that humble beginning into an industry defining business. In the process, of course, they become rich and famous. It’s the computer nerd’s version of the American Dream. Stuff like only…
Mac-To-Go: See The Mac Installed In A Tatra
Talk to any Mac fan about Mac market share — including, it seems, Steve Jobs– and you’ll likely hear a comparison between Macs and BMWs, or Macs and Mercedes, or Macs and Porches. What about Macs and Tatras? Tatras? Yep, Americans who’ve spent some time in Europe may recognize the name. Tatra is a car…
MacMall To Sell Off G5s From Virginia Tech's G5 Supercomputer
Ever since Virginia Tech announced that it would be replacing all of the dual processor 2.0GHz G5 computers in its cluster with new G5 Xserves, some have been wondering what would become of the chunks of the famous cluster. Well, wonder no more. The folks at MacMall will be selling off the refurbished machines for…
BusinessWeek: Free The iMac, And The Sales Will Follow
Alex Salkever of BusinessWeek says it’s time for the iMac to become the Cube. Actually, he never mentions the word "Cube," but Mr. Salkever says that Apple needs to separate the iMac and its monitor — making it into a small, headless Mac — in order to rejuvenate lagging iMac sales. This is, of course,…
