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Wednesday, June 25, 2003

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Slashdot - Apple Hardware VP Defends Benchmarks: 'Joswiak went over the points in turn, but first said that they set out from the beginning to do a fair and even comparison, which is why they used an independent lab and provided full disclosure of the methods used in the tests, which would be "a silly way to do things" if Apple were intending to be deceptive.'

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Power Mac G4s and G5s compared: "The PowerPC 970 is the first modern PowerPC to embrace a 64-bit architecture." [Computerworld News]

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Olympus E-1 detailed preview: "The embargo is over and we can finally bring you our detailed preview of Olympus's long awaited E-1 digital SLR." [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

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Google Update Esmeralda: "For those of you who aren't regular Google-watchers, the Google dance (update) refers to a time roughly once a month when Google updates their index of the web with info from the last month's crawl of websites. During the update, the results Google displays differ in various servers in the Google cluster, hence the term Google is dancing." [kuro5hin.org]

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IBM establishes supercomputer center: "IBM on Tuesday is announcing the opening of a facility for delivering supercomputing-class processing power to developers over the Internet, which is intended to eliminate the exorbitant costs of owning such a system." [InfoWorld: Top News]

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Note to Apple: it's baaaa-aaaack: "Some of you aren't going to like this, and I'm going to get flamed up and down the Nile, but if anything is clear from yesterday, it's that Apple has lit a fire up under the bums of many a PC user. What I'm interested in is the phenomenological aspect of the debate. As our own Battlefront attests to, there have been battles between PC and Mac users for ages, and those looking to do so can find stuff to fight about all the time. But as of yesterday, the war is back on, and the experience of it is different now, at least for me." [Ars Technica]

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Apple WWDC Wrap-up: "Apple's new digital camera, the iSight, when combined with iChat A/V, will be something that sells Macs. Not only will I get one, but if it works properly my family will want to get in on the action, too. My dad already covets my 30GB iPod, and when he figures out that he can do video chat with his kids from across the country he's going convince my mom to spring for the whole Mac package. Jobs knows that iSight will sell Macs via this type of "network marketing", which is why he so generously offered to give a free iSight camera to each of the developers at the conference. They'll take them home, plug them in, and then suggest an iSight purchase to their friends and family so that they'll have someone to do video chat with." [Ars Technica]

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3 Months Ago: Apple Switch: "Apple will switch to Intel processors within the next 12 to 18 months." (PC Magazine via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Apple Says New G5s Will Scream: "CEO Steve Jobs claims the line of Power Macs set for release in August will be the world's fastest personal computers. People who've seen the 64-bit monsters in action tend to agree. By Leander Kahney." [Wired News]