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This Ars post confirms an Apple distributed computing network product called XGrid Today at a colloquium for a new tech park at Purdue, Jim Bottom, VP of IT, discussed the new high-load processing capabilities we have on campus, including IBM big iron, as well as three different distributed computing networks... one of which is from Apple. He called it "X-Grid" and said it was a "to be...

MacBidouille posts a report that there are changes a comin' Google Translation: Many concordant rumours imply that the APPLE range would be deeply altered very soon. It should be the case as well for the machines general public, as for the range pro. APPLE seems very in a hurry to finish some with Mac OS 9. However, certain configurations of the old range could still remain in...

MacWhispers gives a name to a rumor that's been going around that Apple will compete head to head against Microsoft Word. Besides the application's name "Document", the only other info seems to be that it will support a wide variety of input/output formats. Reliability is in question... It should be noted that this report is less solidly grounded than most items published on ...

MacWhispers reports that the new iMacs will have front-based...

Thinksecret reports that Photoshop 8 will be Mac OS X only. There was unverified net gossip floating around that Adobe would be dropping Mac support entirely with PS8... but this has yet to be...

Powerpage notes that in one Behind the Scenes video, Jack Osmond reportedly owns a 40gig iPod. Seems...