Blake Patterson

Lurking about a Mac IRC chatroom, I discovered a link to a page on macmod.com that shows how a user took his iBook (dual USB) and baptized it in a bit of 99% isopropyl alcohol, leaving the normally white plastic perfectly clear. Interesting project. As to whether this enhances the unit's sex appeal, well, you'll have to...

Anonymous writes "At Ingram Micro's online database for resellers, the CD-RW iBook is already showing EOL (End Of Life) which seems really odd to me. These models were just introduced not too long ago. I wonder if there is a change in store for these or if they are pulling the CD-RW model? Just thought this was was very interesting considering how new they are. " If true, this would perhaps...

Bite.org has posted an article that tries to "use common sense" to cut through inflated rumors and get right down to what is going to be announced at Wednesday's MWNY keynote. They make some logical points throughout. Take a look. Overall, the only givens in this keynote are new iMac and new Power Mac G4s. There's been no keynote in recent memory that so little was known ...

rfitz writes "MWNY, its going to be big, real big. New iMacs, and upgraded G4's. iMac: Will be LCD all around. Will have a G4 in all models. Will have combo-drive in all models. Limited Ed. model may be introduced. This all depends on last minute part supplies and some other conditions. For more info read the posts I(rfitz) have in the MacNN forums. ( see forums ) PowerMac: The...

MacCentral has an article reporting that, according to Quality Education Data's recent report, Apple is #1 in the education market, having over twice as many units in place in schools as Dell, the closest runner-up. Interestingly, Dell recently claimed that it was the education leader, ahead of Apple. Poor...

Nick Webb writes "Go2Mac has [another] inside scoop of what will appear at MWNY!!! http://www.go2mac.com/story.lasso?newsID=8021 " ...interesting user specualtion. To quote a passage: Expect to see this line of products: - Single G4 iMac; - Single G4 iBook (the so-called SOP, replacing iBook 2 which was only to take our attention away from the real thing); - Dual G4 Towers (new...

Go2Mac.com has a pretty exciting posting of rumours surrounding the release of new G4 towers (in new "metallic" enclosures) and of "Tessera," the new iMac. Quotes from article (thru several updates): "...the new PowerMac G4s will ship in 733 MHz, 850 MHz and dual 850 MHz configurations." "The new G4s have 166 Mhz CPU bus asynchronous with 133Mhz DDR memory bus. They are not 733 and 850, but...

zebedee writes "Apple's UK Distributors Ingram and TechData (Computer2000) have cut dealer prices on the 733 and 667 G4 towers 'until 21st July 2001, or while stocks last'... Is that a a stock cleardown ahead of the Expo? Servers are unchanged, as are the 466 & 533... "...

Phil Quinney writes "Hi All, Just thought you would like to know that Apple has now officially "suspended production" of the cube. Here's the URL for you to surf over to... http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/jul/03cube.html -Phil."...

Cory writes "If you got to the Apple store and configure a cube or a G4 tower pieces are starting to be unavialable. Example the video cards. I think the guy at Compusa is right. :) "...

Shawn writes "Hey Guys, I work at CompUSA and I have some information that may be of interest to you. As of today (7.01.01) at least one of the iMacs of each speed, All of the PowerMac G4's and all of the Cubes underwent a change in the source codes. They went from -A01 which is an active item to -N01 which is an item that we no longer carry. Just thought that may be the proving factor...

Well, we told you it was coming... :-) Seriously though, Apple has finally released the Mac OS X v10.0.4 upgrade. Reach it via the normal Software Updates app in the "Control Panel." Relevant links (Apple TIL items): Mac OS X (10.0.4) Update Information and Software Mac OS X (10.0.4) Combined Update Information and Software...

Matt writes "MacOSXCentric has word of a leak. "Builds of 10.0.4 have been leaked and are appearing all over the web. Speculation is that 10.0.4 was held so that it could be released at the same time as Mac OS 9.2, which features improvements that are more beneficial when run as Classic under OS X. We'll hopefully have more information on 10.0.4 later today." "...

The Cube Zone has posted a rendering of the "new iMac," today. Interesting concept. Seems a little generous on the screensize for an iMac, we'll agree. Still--it, or something like the same, would be quite an eye-catching (and sales-catching) machine, it would seem. (And we do feel here at macrumors that iMacs will go LCD in the not-so-distant...

A user writes "just noticed that the second video card option in the apple store is listed as temporarily unavailable...maybe it's nothing...maybe " That is a curious move. Inventory issue? For what it's...

Yewie sent us a brief heads-up to a rumor article on The Register that points to what could be the next iMac...and Apple web pad...and OS X rackmount server. Which is it? All perhaps...but more likely, none. At any rate, it's an interesting bit of...

anonymous writes "Meeting Info: "Unfortunately due to undisclosed problems the Mac OSX 10.0.5 Update has been delayed. We expect the update to be available to public users by the 6th June at the latest." "DVD playback is included but is undocumented and the DVD software player is unfinished (beta version) but functional" "...please emphasis to your staff that Apple has no future plans to...

For a good example of the performance of OS X's OpenGL system (and if you like a good game) check out glTron for OS X. Originally a Linux title, this is the most fun and unique game I have found out there that runs natively under OS X. Most everyone's seen the mid-80's Tron arcade game which features the overhead light-cycle race. This takes the light-cycle experience to a new level, providing ...

Anonymous writes "As of today (24th) Apple has released information about the forthcoming Mac OSX update (10.0.5) to customer support personnel and non-essential Apple employees. Details from the internal memo circulating around the office state: DVD movie playback support is included in this release, but is limited ( forward, play, stop, pause, full screen etc) and is only in beta. This...

The Register reports that tomorrow, May 25th, Apple will release an OS X update, taking the system to v10.0.5. (Indeed, there apparently will be no v10.0.4 update.) Again, this will be accessible through the Software Update "control panel." This arrives only days after Apple's posting of the OS X Internet Explorer v5.1.1 update (available through Software...