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...line up a card along the front edge of the machine, tilt the laptop's screen down and snap a picture of it; included with the laptop is software called Presto! BizCard that imports the text of the business card into your contacts file. There's also a Gobi chipset that allows you to connect to high-speed cellular networks, available by subscription in the U.S. from the likes of AT&T and Verizon, when wi-fi networks are unavailable. There's even a slot for a SIM card for pay-as-you-go cellular networks abroad...
...front, its chipset is upgradeable to 2.16 GHz for an extra bit of juice. In place of the old PC card slot, there's a 34mm ExpressCard/34 slot. I looked around the Internet, and it doesn't seem like there's much you can do with that slot now. However, Apple says that many such products will soon be available, including memory-card readers and networking devices. (Be aware: some devices, such as current Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess PC-card modems, won't work on the MacBook Pro.) One noticeably absent feature is the FireWire 800 port found on G4 PowerBooks...
...first thing you notice about Apple's new iMac - running the Intel Core Duo chipset rather than an older PowerPC chip - is that it's almost identical to the iMac that the company introduced in October. The second thing you notice, though, is that it is noticeably faster. It only takes around 30 seconds to restart the entire system...
...carved out a growing business by selling lower-priced laptop PCs to consumers. Without the burden of costly assembly lines and inventories, Acer can reduce the price of its PCs quickly. Rolling out new technology happens faster, too. Earlier this year, Acer started selling laptops with Intel's Sonoma chipset a month ahead of the competition. The company is also able to focus on creating innovative, consumer-friendly designs, such as snazzy, red, Ferrari-branded laptops that are proving popular in Western Europe...
While still enrolled at Harvard, Gates put the finishing touches on the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800 chipset...