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According to MacWorld, Hitachi has announced at the CES show in Las Vegas they plan to at least double the current capacity of the 1" microdrive used in iPod minis within the year. At present Hitachi's most capacious Microdrive can hold 4GB of data, but the new drives, due in the second half of this year, will be able to hold between 8GB and 10GB, said Bill Healy, senior vice president of product...

According to one source, the ATI X800 video card could be debuted for the Mac as early as January 5th. The X800 was apparently shown as a demo at the Digital Life Expo in New York in a Power Mac G5. It will be capable of driving ONE 30" display, because there is one ADC port and one Dual-link DVI port. Additionally, the card will only take up ONE slot (its own AGP 8x slot), unlike the 6800...

Apple lowered the prices on its line of LCD displays today across the board (as rumored), with the 20" model now falling below the $1000 mark. Pricing is as follows: * $999 - 20" Cinema, 1680 x 1050 optimal resolution, 16.7 million colors, DVI Display Connector, 2 port USB 2.0 Hub, 2 FireWire 400 ports * $1799 - 23" Cinema HD, 1920 x 1200 optimal resolution, 16.7 million colors, DVI Display ...

Apple unveiled this morning Xserve G5 upgrades, moving the line to Dual 2.3 Ghz G5 as previously rumored. The new lineup includes: * $3999 - Dual 2.3 Ghz G5, 512K L2 cache/processor, 1.15GHz system bus/processor, 1GB DDR400 ECC SDRAM, 80GB Serial ATA drive, Mac OS X Server (Unlimited Client), Dual Gigabit Ethernet, No video card and Combo drive * $2999 - Dual 2.3 Ghz G5 Cluster Node, 512K...

According to both AppleInsider and MacShrine.com, Apple is expected to release new higher-end Xserve 1U servers on Tuesday in the following configurations: * Dual 2.3 Ghz G5 Server - 1 GB ECC Ram, 80 GB SATA HD, 2x Gigabit Ethernet, Combo drive and unlimited server license for $3999 * Dual 2.3 Ghz G5 Cluster node - same as above, without an optical drive & 10 user license for $2999 * Dual...

According to Spanish site CanalPDA.com (translated) in an interview with Apple's VP of Mobile Platforms and Services business unit Albert Slope, Apple is lining up their ducks to be a new mobile carrier. "creating our own mobile carrier is the next logical step in our strategy of providing the Apple experience to the users of our products. We believe that existing carriers are not offering the...

Apple Australia are holding a press conference to coincide with MWSF on January 12. Historically, Apple Australia do not hold events like these to coincide with the US Macworld conferences, the appearance of which leads to suspicions of a release of the iTunes Music Store. [Update] There is another theory: Apple Retail Stores in Australia...

Both AppleInsider and Think Secret report that Apple has seeded a new developer's pre-release build of OS X 10.4 Tiger Server (8A325). In light of the recent legal filings against developer builds being released into the wild, Apple has included the following note in bold red: "PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE IS APPLE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. YOUR UNAUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTION OF PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE OR...

From CNET News: Apple Computer filed suit this week against three developers it says posted a prerelease version of Mac OS X onto the Internet. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in San Jose, Calif., alleges that the three men posted a developer release of Mac OS X Tiger onto sites used by the BitTorrent file-trading network. Apple is seeking an injunction to prevent further releases of ...

CNET News takes a look at IBM's PowerPC 970FX chip and the likely roadmap IBM plans to take the POWER line. From the article: The next-generation chip will have technology that lets it run multiple operating systems simultaneously, said Karl Freund, vice president, IBM eServer pSeries. Doing so allows a computer to handle more jobs at the same time and to be used more efficiently. With the...

In an article on CNET News Apple has said it will miss the deadline for shipping its Xsan storage management software. As recently as last month, Apple reiterated the software would ship in the fall of 2004. The delay in the software was previously rumored, along with possible upgrades to the Xserve line of Apple...

In a story found on Forbes.com today, Apple and Motorola have admitted they are working on a joint-venture phone to support a mobile version of iTunes. "We've said we have something coming on this in the first half of 2005 and we're definitely on schedule for that. Hopefully you'll be able to see more about it soon," says Eddy Cue, vice president in charge of applications at Apple. The coalition ...

In a press release, Apple announced that the iTMS has successfully sold over 200 million tracks, with the second 100 million coming since July 12, 2004. The 200 millionth song was part of The Complete U2 and was purchased by Ryan Alekman from Belchertown, MA. iTunes has made it easy to give the gift of music this holiday season with iTunes prepaid cards that are available from retailers like...

According to sources close to AppleInsider, the previously-rumored revision to the iPod mini line is already in production in Asia. Teaming up with Seagate to produce the revised mini, Apple plans to introduce the new 5 GB model in early 2005. According to the source, Apple plans to build a stockpile of the devices to meet the initial demand. The new mini is expected to debut alongside a...

Toshiba, maker of the 1.8" hard drives currently used in iPods, has announced that it is planning to ship an 80 GB in the 3rd quarter of 2005. The annoucement of the drive comes a year after it announced the 60 GB version currently found in the iPod photo. Unlike the 60 GB announcement, Toshiba has chosen to not name names of who might order this upcoming 80 GB drive, but given that the sizing ...

An anonymous tip to MacRumors says that 10.3.7 is ready for release this week. Expectations for it include improved AFP support for saving documents with long file names, improved OpenGL technology and updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers, improved FireWire device compatibility, updated Preview application, improved compatibility for third party applications, and previous standalone security...

Now available via Software Update: iCal 1.5.5 includes improvements in iSync synchronization on computers running Mac OS X version 10.2. iCal 1.5.4 or later includes security enhancements to help protect your computer when subscribing to calendars or importing events with alarms that open files or applications....

In a China Daily article, news comes of Toshiba's intent to supply Apple Computer with flash memory chips "early next year." This news fuels speculation of Apple releasing a previously rumored flash memory-based version of the iPod at MWSF in January. Toshiba already supplies Apple with 1.8-inch hard drives for use in larger iPods models such as the 40-gigabyte version that can store 10,000...

An anonymous submission today points to some possible releases at MWSF in January: New eMacs 1.6 Ghz G5 across the line -- 533 mhz bus like the iMac. ATI Radeon 9600 with 64 MB VRAM. Combo $899 Superdrive $999 New Powerbooks G5s are nowhere near ready as are dual G4s. There will however be slight upgrades and price drops. 12" - upgrade to 1.5 Ghz G4, BT/AE built in (like the new...