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Sony wants bite out of Apple iPod
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Fri, 2005-07-15 22:00
Don't call it a comeback yet, but Sony Corp. has a new lineup of digital music players that are slicing into the popularity of Apple Computer's iPod device in Japan.
Apple is still squashing Sony in Europe and North America, where the iPod has achieved iconic status and a big selling point is the availability of iTunes, an easy-to-use music downloading service that has not yet been launched in Japan.
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Speed of Apple Intel dev systems impress developers
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Thu, 2005-07-14 22:00
The speed of Mac OS X running on Intel hardware is impressing some developers who've been privy to one of Apple's first Intel-based developer transition systems.
The systems started shipping to Mac OS X developers three weeks ago, each equipped with a 3.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with 2 MB L2 Cache, 800MHz front-side bus, 1GB of 533MHz DDR2 Dual Channel SDRAM, and an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900.
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A first look at Apple's Intel Mac
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Fri, 2005-06-24 06:37
The Apple Development Platform ADP2,1, as the systems are officially designated, features 3.6GHz Pentium 4 processors with 2MB of L2 cache operating on an 800MHz bus with 1GB of RAM.
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Dell would sell the Mac OS, but Apple holds back
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Fri, 2005-06-17 06:42
Dell said that if Apple Computer ever decides to let its Mac OS X operating system outside of its confines, the company can count him in as a possible customer.
With the recent news that Apple plans to become a fellow customer of Intel for x86 processors, Dell has expressed interest in selling Mac OS X-based PCs, he said in an e-mail to Fortune published on the magazine's Web site Thursday.
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Apple Computer's switch to Intel raises no security fears
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Thu, 2005-06-09 22:01
Yes, Macs will have the same hardware at their core as Windows PCs, but it is the operating system, not the hardware, that has made those Microsoft-based computers vulnerable to attacks, analysts and security researchers said. "Mac OS has generally a better track record and reputation than Windows for security. I don't think taking Mac OS to Intel silicon would change the robustness of the operating system," said Dana Gardner, a senior analyst at research firm the Yankee Group.
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