Word: macs
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...student than a Harvard freshman during reading period. But as reported on Wednesday in The Crimson, for Nicholas M. Ciarelli ’08, these subjects have just become very important: Nick has been sued by Apple Computer, Inc. His alleged crime? A post he made to a popular Mac rumor mill he runs (www.thinksecret.com), describing products that he said were to be announced at the MacWorld expo keynote address by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, which occurred this past Tuesday...
...dieu! - that great French cultural gem, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon. - By Peter Gumbel Apple Gets Hard Core Profits at Apple more than quadrupled to a record $295 million in the first quarter, thanks to a 525% jump in sales of the iPod. Meanwhile, the computer maker unveiled the Mac mini, a cut-price desktop, and a no-frills, smaller iPod...
...iPods were more the Apple CEO's speed. But after his company's strong holiday sales and the quadrupling of its first-quarter profits from the year before, Jobs can afford to be generous. As of next week you will be able to buy an entry-level Mac for $500 and a scaled-down iPod for $99. The new iPod is no heftier than a pack of gum, while the Mini Mac is smaller than your average Harry Potter hardcover...
...course, you're making some sacrifices for those prices. The Mini Mac is what Jobs calls BYODKM--bring your own display, keyboard and mouse. That makes it ideal if you're a Windows user who wants to switch teams and already has those peripherals (the Mini Mac will work with just about any recent brand). But BYODKM is not such a bargain if you're starting from scratch--especially if you want extras like a wireless Internet card, which will set you back another...
...Mini Mac is a surprisingly powerful beast for its size. It has roughly the same memory and hard-drive size as a low-end G4 Power Mac and comes with the latest version of Mac OS X. Plug in the peripherals, and you will rarely notice the difference. The $99 iPod Shuffle, however, could never be mistaken for its larger cousin. There's no screen on which to view the song currently playing, and it holds only 126 tracks. (A $150 model doubles that capacity.) It's called the Shuffle because that's the best thing you can do with...