Swimming in Mac Aquariums; Microsoft's Tablet PC; more
Swimming in Mac Aquariums; Microsoft's Tablet PC; more
Swimming in Mac Aquariums Wired News explores the burgeoning world of Mac aquarium collecting, noting that "Comedian Jay Leno has an iMac aquarium. Steve Jobs reportedly has a couple of them. Timothy Leary had a Mac aquarium, and so did Abbey Hoffman. Wall Street is positively swimming in them: For some reason, they're a favorite gift among stockbrokers and bankers." More.
New TiBooks/iBooks Last True Macs? Andrew Orlowski's The Register speculates that Apple's newly revised Titanium PowerBook G4 and iBook models will be the last to boot into Mac OS 9. "These are the last True Macs in a way, if you're sentimental. Future models starting next year won't boot the ancient MacOS, running older applications only in the OS X Classic environment, and good riddance many will say. But it's the end of an era and the start of a (probably short-lived) black market as designers rummage around for recent models that can still run Quark natively and allow them to use their existing peripherals." More.
Microsoft Bets on Tablet PC Media Unspun opines on Microsoft's $70 million US promotional campaign to accompany the debut of its Tablet PC specification. "Coverage of the technology blanketed the dailies like a Seattle fog. Squinting through the hype, Unspun discerned wistfulness, even hope, that this latest effort from Microsoft -- a pet project of Bill Gates, according to the Wall Street Journal -- might put some life, and profit, back into the desultory business of selling PCs." Microsoft's propreitary handwriting technology used in the Tablet PC offers much of the same functionality as Apple's Inkwell component in Mac OS X 10.2.x. More.
Formac offers 17.4" LCD for $699 Formac Electronic has announced Formac gallery 1740 OX, a "snow-white" designed 17.4" LCD display with a contrast ratio of 400:1 and a pixel response time of 10-25 ms, as well as incorporating Multi-Domain Vertical Alignment (MVA). The new display will be available at the end of November for $699 US. More.
PowerMate Black Edition Introduced Griffint Technology has debtued a black and blue version of its PowerMate multimedia controller that can be used as a volume knob, or programmed for any number of other uses such as a jog/shuttle wheel for movie editing or a scroll wheel for long documents. The device is priced at $45 US. More.
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