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Dreaming of a new G5 iMac but you want something a little more like the fruit flavored iMacs of a few years ago? Fear not, ColorWare has you covered. For about $500 extra you can order an iMac in any of the 20 shades they offer. Not insterested in an ...

Apple just released the latest iteration of the iMac with faster processors, a built-in iSight camera for easy video conferencing, an 8X dual-layer DVD writer (and CD-RW combined), among other spiffy new features. The new software featured on the iMac is FrontRow, a new multimedia interface that can be controlled ...

Judging by the number of websites detailing the strange ways of case modding PC's, there must be a huge number of geeky individuals that enjoy rolling their own hardware. And yes, there are those (me included) that like to tinker with case mods for Macs, despite Apple's relatively small market ...

This could be fun! Think Secret says they know what The Steve will be unveiling at the January 11 Macworld Expo: a bare bones, G4-based iMac without a display that will retail for $499. This new product will be for a Windows user who has experienced the iPod, the ease ...

While we re waiting for the first round of iMac G5 reviews to hit the net, MacMinute found Apple s Developer Note on the new system. I found a few interesting tidbits amidst the technical stuff. Available as a fully-integrated, build-to-order option, Bluetooth is an open specification that enables short-range wireless connections ...

Gizmodo had this snapshot of what is reportedly Apple's new iMac G5. It's supposed to be released next week, but somebody got a sneak peek in an elevator at Charles DeGaulle Airport. Looks to be little more than a thick flat panel monitor, with the computer's guts tucked behind ...

Top 10 Mac Failures: An interesting look at Apple miscues. Among them, the Flower Power/Blue Dalmation iMac and my personal choice of unforgiveable design, the round mouse. Users were not universally pleased with the new mouse. It was now totally symmetrical, preventing many users from easily telling which way is ...

The common perception is that because you can find PC's for under $500, a PC is a better value than an Apple Macintosh. I've always felt that you get what you pay for a cheap PC is just that and because of its ease of use, higher quality ...

Apple has started shipping its brand-spankin new iMac G5 computers. Some geek out there has taken delivery of one and apparently tore the thing apart before he even booted it up, and he even took pictures. As is usual for Apple these days, the arrangement of the innards is about ...

Apple - iMac G5: Well, as much as I dislike the all-in-one computer concept, I imagine that one of these new iMacs will become the household computer in a couple of months. Apple squarely plugged the hole in their product line that I mentioned a few months ago, and these ...

What is a geek to do when his iMac dies? Why, bring it back to life in another body, of course. Here's an interesting solution to a fairly common -- and expensive to fix -- problem experienced by many rev. A and B iMac owners. Old Macs never die; they ...

Macintouch did a poll this week, asking Mac mini users about their experiences with the machines. Of those responding, a miniscule 3% reported having problems with their minis, compared to 11-12% for the rev. B iMac G5. And according to Consumer Reports, Apple desktops and portables have for years had ...

Alex Salkever of Business Week has written an open letter to Apple's Steve Jobs in a recent column that provides some interesting perspectives on where Apple should go next in terms of its computer business. Most of his points are awfully hard to argue with. You've been to Target, right? ...

iLojack - A true story : Chris helped me find this story again about the stolen iMac. It's actually not a story it's a collection of newsgroup postings about how this guy got his sister's machine back after it was stolen in a bulglary. His sister had a remote ...

I'm writing this from the second floor of the Apple store on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. We spent the day with the guys from 37 Signals at The Building of Basecamp Workshop. I'm on a little iMac, and I have to admit it's impressive...the store, I mean. Everything is ...

Apple to sell Macs at Best Buy: I wonder how this will affect the plans for the Apple Stores around the country? Will they only sell in Best Buy markets where they don't have a retail presence? "The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker plans next month to launch a pilot program ...

Here's a funny hacked version of Apple's new iMac ad. (Watch the whole thing to better understand the post's title.) I guess when the Mac haters can't come up with any real criticisms they go making things up.

Everybody laughed when the iMac came out without a floppy, but give them credit for looking ahead. From CNN: "[Dell]...announced it would stop making floppy disk drives standard equipment on its higher end desktop personal computers. ... Other Dell models may lose the floppy by end of the year, depending ...

How to pick up and carry your iMac G5 In case you couldn't figure this out for yourself Apple provides clear concise instructions. A couple of sad comments here. First, I have to believe that in order for Apple to take the time to write this up, more than one ...

Why your Movable Type blog must die: This is a really great rant about (1) blogging in general, and (2) Movable Type in particular. Very funny. You are all pretentious twats Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on ...

CNN is proclaiming the death of the floppy drive. If you ask me the floppy has been dead for some time now. Once it became easy to email attachments I all but forgot they even existed. I think the deciding factor for most people was probably the widespread use of ...

Road to Expo: iWork '05, Jam Pack 4 arriving: Think Secret who predicted a monitor-less iMac last week is now talking about Apple's planned Office-killer: iWork. Chatter surrounding iWork then called iWorks, as it was speculated to be the successor to AppleWorks first emerged almost two ...

Apple has been hinting about a new iPod, and Monday's Newsweek cover has been leaked, and guess what's on it? Steve Jobs and the newer, smaller, higher capacity (why?!) iPod. Much like Time and the new iMac back in 2002, Newsweek has leaked an image with Steve Jobs and the ...

From the 'Let it Die' Department: A couple of Apple hackers have modded up their Apple ]['s so that they can run web browsers (yes, you read that right). Oliver Schmidt and Glenn Jones have made a working prototype Apple ][ port of Contiki that works with Glenn's self-built Apple ...

Apple Computer introduced today a G5 tower with a single 1.8GHz processor in it, which adds a new lower rung on the G5 lineup. Priced at $1,500, it's aimed directly at those who need a bit more power and more expansion possibilities than the G5 eMac or G5 iMac, but ...

ColorWare is an outfit that specializes in customizing Apple products (and lots of others) with most any color you can wish for. Recent reports suggest that they're gearing up to do the Mac mini in color as well! Some of their colors like Wet, Lilac, Envy & Mystique sound ...

I saw something yesterday about a new computer that Sony just released the VIAO VA TV-PC and my first thought was, "Great. Another cheap iMac G5 knockoff." Then I saw the price. $1,999.99 for the 17" model and $2,199.99 for the 20". Crimony! Compare that to the iMacs ...

Rumor site AppleInsider got hit with a lawsuit Wednesday, in the wake of two articles leaking information on what is to be released in the Macworld Expo next week. The suit, filed Tuesday in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, Calif., aims to identify who is leaking the information ...

Apple Computer posted it's fourth quarter earnings results today, and it was chock full of good news: For the quarter, the Company posted a net profit of $106 million, or $.26 per diluted share. These results compare to a net profit of $44 million, or $.12 per diluted share, in ...

Steve Jobs just wrapped up his keynote at this year's World Wide Developer Conference and aside from the 30-inch Cinema HD Display the primary focus of his talk was Tiger, the next generation of OS X due in 2005. Some highlights of Tiger include: Spotlight - A new search utility ...

Early yesterday morning Apple sold its 1 billionth song through iTunes Music Service. The billionth song ”Speed of Sound” was purchased as part of Coldplay s “X&Y” album by Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan and as the grand prize winner he will receive a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth generation iPods ...

I know this is late, and you've probably already heard, but today Apple cut loose the new Mac Pro the successor to the G5 Power Macintosh. Prices start at $2,199 for a dual-processor, dual-core 2GHz machine. An extra $1,100 will replace the 2GHz Xeons with 3GHz processors. The exterior ...

The MacWorld Expo is going on this week, and Steve Jobs gave the big keynote address this morning. Highlights of what he had to say are... The first Intel-powered Macs will be the iMacs. They'll sport a either a 1.83GHz or 2GHz dual-core Intel chip, with an integrated 17 or ...