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Friday, October 11, 2002
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Quick review of Mathematica 4.2 -- Comment()
I updated my quick review of Mathematica 4.2 with some additional material. This program is nice, but the price is high.
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iPod instead of iBook -- Comment()
I ordered the 20 GB iPod mp3 player today. I have been thinking about this for some time, and finally decided to take the plunge. At the same time I used up the rebate coupon Apple sent to .Mac early adopters. I believe this is a good buy. Now I can listen to my cd collection even when not having the iBook with me. This model of the iPod was reviewed in the recent issue of MacWorld, and got 4.5 stars.
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Apple Pitches Mac OS X To Linux Fans: "At this year's Expo the business giants and Linux geeks were joined for the first time by consumer-friendly Apple, which is pitching its Mac OS X operating system as the ultimate workstation environment for developers, researchers and system administrators." (ZDNet UK via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Ars Technica writes about IBM's upcoming desktop Power4 derivative and quotes Peter Glaskowsky, the EIC of The Microprocessor Report: Unlike IBM's original Power4, the device to be described next week will use one, not two, internal processor core and will support extensions that make the Power4 compatible with the PowerPC architecture. "Because it supports a full 32-bit environment, this chip should be able to boot the Mac OS just fine," Glaskowsky said... "Apple would have to be crazy not to use this part," said Glaskowsky. "Its performance will be in the upper reaches of any CPU. I can't comment on its speeds, but they are good numbers. Apple would be able to produce for the first time machines that not only have great performance but support full 64-bit addressing.
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