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macmoguls.com news archive: January 2002
Monday, January 28, 2002
Finally Apple broke the magical 1 Ghz barrier - with one of the new Power Macs.
Unfortunately Apple didn't make it to put a G5 processor into the new models, but nevertheless these machines were improved in speed an performance.
Best model is a 1 Ghz Power Mac G4 dual [combined performance of 15 billion floating point operations per second (15 gigaflops), Superdrive and a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX] followed by a 933 MHz Power Mac G4 [SuperDrive, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX] and a 800 MHz Power Mac G4 [ATI Radeon 7500, CD-RW drive]. All three models support up to 1.5GB of PC133 SDRAM.
Apple says: "The first Power Mac to blast through the 1GHz barrier, the new twin-engined G4 runs professional applications like Adobe Photoshop up to 72 percent faster — and crunches digital video over 300 percent faster — than a 2GHz Pentium 4-based PC."
Read more about the details at Apple's website.
Posted by Corley @ 03:02 PM CST [Link] [No comments]
Sunday, January 27, 2002
Apple's new spot is - of course - all about the new flatpanel iMac.
Five different and mostly famous persons -Annie Leibovitz, Seal, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonothan Ive and Phil Schiller- try to demonstrate the advantages of Apple's new computer by showing what they think of it.
Even if the idea is not really banbreaking, most people think this is really a great ad. Here you can watch Apple's newest iMac spot.
Apple is not only one of the most innovative companies in the technology market, it also ran some of the most provocative and impressive spots in the history of technology advertisement.
About 18 years ago a spot called "1984" was aired. This is probably the greatest commercial Apple Computer ever ran, even if the original Macintosh - which it should promote - was never shown in that ad. Instead of that, the end of the spot was like this: "On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984."
It was created by Apple's advertising agency Chiat/Day, and it was really obvious that this agency was inspired by George Orwell's visions in his homonymous book.
Some of these interesting commercials can be seen at this site.
[Author's opinion]Posted by Corley @ 04:26 PM CST [Link] [2 comments]
Friday, January 25, 2002
Stephen Gary Wozniak, better know as Steve Wozniak or simply "Woz", has founded a new company called "wOz" ("Wheels of Zeus ").
The company's focus will be on designing new consumer electronics wireless products.
Steve Wozniak said: "wOz is designing new consumer electronics wireless products that will have universal appeal among consumers and corporations alike. Recent advances in global positioning software (GPS) systems and antenna technology coupled with the declining cost of processing power and two-way networking make the possibilities for new devices and services really exciting."
By the way: Woz was one of the three founders of Apple Computer in 1976. In 1985 Wozniak resigned from Apple.
[Author's opinion]Posted by Corley @ 07:53 PM CST [Link] [No comments]
Thursday, January 24, 2002
Well, most of the site is complete. Everything works, and the site should look good on any modern browser available for the Macintosh platforms.
I think now it's time to release these pages and wait for some comments to come ;-)...
It is surely a kind of risk to put so much time in creating a website that maybe isn't interesting for most computer users (because they use the wrong operating system...), but it was a lot of fun :-).
I know that macmoguls.com is far from perfect, but it is completely based on my own interests and ideas. Would be very great if I could improve it involving your ideas in the future.
Of course these pages are worth nothing if no one uses its features. So, check it out and contact me personally, if you don't want to post a comment.
Have fun!
Cheers,
Corley
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