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The Pippin

Granted, it was basically Bandai's machine, but it's always interesting to look at what plans Apple had for it in the States.

Linux?
I doubt it, I actually think that Apple
computers are heavily involved in spam.
But hey, dont just take my word for it,
a good article about this:
The Apple Connection with Spam!

From the Article:
"Apple reps admits themselves that their computers are great for sending unsolicited email. The facts are just there, and its an unfortunate fact of business"

I think it's cool enough to be the first PDA I'd actually plunk down cash on. but it's still lacking in two areas: it's not quite small enough (the front should just be ALL screen, or at most just a narrow frame around it) and it's not in color. I suspect it also would not have the horsepower to play 320x240 xvid movies, which it really needs along with a teeny camera.

That system, with one of those 1GB microdrives for storage, would make a killer pocket computer. Use it to record notes, video, and watch and listen. Type? Who needs to type? Just record everything and let the sync software on the home PC do the rest.

When you say look at Apple, do you mean the Pippin? :-)

The *real* oldest mouse is here !

Have you guys read the EULA you have to agree when installing Mac OS X? It says that you can't use it in anyway in connection to flight controls or nuclear facilities, or any form of weapon of mass destruction. So much for putting Macs in to the coolest agencies...

Seems to me that the reason why the Navy used Linux on their newly acquired Xserves were because they couldn't use Mac OS X without violating the contract!

Oh, but maybe you think this maybe be the reason to all this?

Or maybe it's because the government wants to become "hip" again? :)

Don't normally reply to myself, by I just thought about it further and realised that the IBM equivalent of the Imac girl would be Optimus Prime

..Scary stuff :|

We'll copy their default desktop image

Like all things MS, they copy but they don't totally copy. Look at Win95. It has a lot of the features that Apple OS had for years but not all of them. For example you can change the icon used to represent all folders, but you can't change the icon for an individual folder.

I think MS and their lawyers aren't stupid. They go only so far as to look "innovative" but not outright followers. They know Apple has and will sue anyone who copies them (E-Power, the Korean iMac look-alike)

That's why the new computer looks like Apple Cinema display with ugly appendages and Longhorn with OS X features but still distinctively MS.

Actually I thought that XP and Longhorn looks more like a cross between System 8 and BeOS.

They're just trying to keep up with apple...

Here's the competition...

Apples.

It will end when we realise that Bush is a 'switcher' and that windows is the OS of choice among those "who hate us"

I've got an rev. b iMac (the almost-original bondi blue style) with a dead monitor. As near as I can tell the electronics are all fine, but without a working display it won't boot. I'd love to get it running again, minimallly as a "hidden in the closet" server, or better still by finding someone with another dead iMac with a working display where I could merge the parts together into one working machine.

But since just fixing it doesn't seem feasible (a new CRT has been quoted to me for around $500, so that's not an option), and I haven't been able to find anyone for the "franken-mac" idea, my fiance has been trying to get me to throw it away instead, and sooner or later I'm sure she'll have her way on this one.

Plus the empty case would make a nice macquarium

Here's a site with a bunch of apple tattoos. (Warning - contains nudity).

Were you being sarcastic about the fishtank? Have you seen these?

You damn tease!

The best I could find was this or this!

would have cover like that

WOooO I wanna read it! :)

Oops, messed up my URL, sorry, i'm new at this... http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macdesign / 4DualLCD.html

The new product they're making is not a PDA. I have my sources........DAMN! I was gonna link to the segfault iToast, but it appears to be down.this
should do it for now.

can be found at http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macproto/ iWalk.html.

I can't get to the main story link; is this an accurate photo?

More seriously, though, at least this means they'll be able to make the next iMac more kickass w/ less worries of cannibalizing sales of other models.

Sure -- pick up a Power Mac G5 Sphere when you get a chance.

The obvious example of case-reuse.

Here be some good examples: The Apple Collection and Aquarium by Jim.

I've been printing computers and then building them during class for the last few weeks. I get them from the Paper Mac page, and print them out with my laser printer. Then I take them to class and, while the teacher is babbling dumb stuff about what she has done with computers, I build macs. I've got a small army of them collecting here...

Here's a link on that particular one.

Here's AppleInsider's report on the merger rumor, from February 1999! And you think Slashdot is late with the news sometimes!

The Rowenta Surfline iRon existed years before the iMac, so shouldn't Apple rather pay some license fees to Rowenta? And btw, looked from closeby, the iMac is butt ugly.