APPLE RELEASES MAC OS X PUBLIC BETA; UNVEILS NEW IBOOK LINE.During the kickoff keynote at Apple Expo Paris, where over 250 exhibitors are showcasing solutions and services for the Macintosh platform, Apple (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AAPL) released Mac OS X Public Beta The Mac OS X Public Beta was an early beta version of Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system. It was released to the public on September 13 2000 for US$29.95. It allowed software developers and early adopters to get a taste of the upcoming operating system, and develop software and introduced a new iBook line in all new colors. Apple also announced that it will offer the Radeon graphics accelerator card as a build-to-order option on The Apple Store (www.apple.com) for all Power Mac G4 and Power Mac G4 Cube Power Mac G4 Cube was a quiet, fanless, compact Macintosh personal computer from Apple Inc. It was sold from 2000 to 2001. Features This diminutive 8" x 8" x 8" cube suspended in a 10" tall Lucite enclosure, housed a PowerPC G4 processor running at 450 or 500 megahertz, systems. Immediately available in English, French and German through The Apple Store for $29.95, Mac OS X features state-of-the-art technology throughout, including advanced Internet and graphics technologies, a new user interface named "Aqua," and an open-source UNIX-based foundation named Darwin. Mac OS X features true memory protection, pre-emptive multi-tasking, and symmetric multiprocessing when running on the new dual-processor Power Mac G4 line. Mac OS X includes Apple's new Quartz 2D graphics engine (based on the Internet-standard Portable Document Format (file format) Portable Document Format - (PDF) The native file format for Adobe Systems' Acrobat. PDF is the file format for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. ) for stunning graphics and broad font support; OpenGL for spectacular 3D graphics and gaming, and QuickTime for streaming audio and video. In addition, Mac OS X features Apple's new user interface named "Aqua," which combines superior ease-of-use with amazing new functionality such as the "Dock," a breakthrough for organizing applications, documents and miniaturized windows. Mac OS X Public Beta includes many applications, including Apple's new Mail client (IMAP and POP compatible) and new versions of the QuickTime player and Sherlock Internet searching tool, as well as a beta version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the most popular browser for the Mac. Apple has also unveiled a new iBook line featuring FireWire ports and iMovie 2, the world's most popular and easy-to-use digital video editing software Video editing software is application software which handles the editing of video sequences on a computer. It usually includes the ability to import and export video, cut and paste sections of a video clip, and add special effects and transitions; and it sometimes includes the . Apple's new iBook now comes in Indigo and the new iBook Special Edition, which includes a DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. drive for watching DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. movies on the go, comes in Graphite. The new iBook models include: a 366 MHz or 466 MHz PowerPC G3 processor; a 10GB IDE hard drive, configurable to 20GB; a 400 Mbps FireWire port for connecting high-speed peripherals such as digital camcorders and hard disk drives; a CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive; an AV port providing audio and composite video output; and the blazing ATI RAGE Mobility 128 controller with 8MB of SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. for great games and graphics. Providing advanced 3D graphics processing for the Macintosh, the Radeon graphics card is available immediately for order through The Apple Store for all Power Mac G4 and Power Mac G4 Cube models for an additional $100. |
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