Word: imac
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...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...
...once a year: it's an amazing company that makes great products. Apple has been declared dead more times than I can count, but it is special and better than most other U.S. companies. If only the rest of them could do as well as Apple. I use my iMac to make movies, access my AppleWorks cookbook, keep track of dates and addresses and listen to music as I recharge my iPod. What's next? Christine Lowe Slater Northbridge, Massachusetts...
...somewhere in my early high school years that a friend first showed me his vast catalogue of illegally procured tunes. This was indeed the Holy Grail: a never-ending supply of music was just waiting to be pulled from an immense, digital horn-of-plenty, and my iMac was my very own, blueberry-flavored ticket to sonic heaven...
...computer is the respectable work of engineering you might expect: a tad trimmer than the last iMac, this one has a faster G5 processor, faster RAM, a souped-up graphics card and up to 500GB of internal hard disk storage. It has all of that plus a built-in iSight camera. That means easy access to iChat AV, or fun snapshots from the new, slightly gimmicky Photo Booth software. You pick an effect, like Fish Eye or the Warholian Pop Art, then pose for your portrait. You can e-mail the resulting image, or bring it into iPhoto or even...
...iTunes), still images, song files and DVDs, respectively. The idea is that you can play music or look at pictures while sitting on a couch at the other side of the room, anywhere up to 30 feet away, in fact, as long as you're within sight of the iMac...