The News Is Picking Up.
It's not likely rumors, at least not in this magnitude. A number of rumor sites are reporting that Apple has ordered a substantial number (60,000) of the new PowerPC 970 chip.
The PowerPC 970 is a 64-bit processor with serious horsepower, as detailed in this Ars Technica article. The 970 has everything going for it and will bring the Macintosh pro desktops to parity--and beyond--with Pentium 4 systems. More to come on this.
Another Apple success: the introduction of iTunes 4 and the iTunes Music Store. In two weeks, Apple has sold 2 million songs from its relatively limited but expanding collection. Apple is also searching for developers to create a Windows version of iTunes that can also collect songs from the service. Apparently, the stock market is happy of the progress: Apple's stock has shot up over 33% since the introduction.
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