Despite Apple claims just last week that ‘thermal challenges‘ might delay the announcement of portable G5 laptops, Taiwanese tech magazine DigiTimes reports on two manufacturers there ready to ship G5 portables in quantity by the end of Q2 2005. The report is headlined in ho-hum fashion: ‘Sources: Taiwan makers receive Apple’s Mac mini and iPod shuffle orders.’ Yawn. Well, what the report fails to highlight is that two Taiwanese vendors are on track to ship 200k+ portables to Apple by Q2 2005.
Asustek Computer is making the iPod shuffle, and is tapped in this report to ship G5 iBooks in quantity before the end of Q2. Quanta is reported to be on track to ship 30-50k Powerbook G5s per month in Q2.
BoingBoing reports on this posting from monkey methods’ blog: photos allegedly from a ‘Teen Beat’ magazine story on Bill Gates, circa 1983. My favorite part of these is not the vintage nostalgia, yadda yadda, but rather the fact that what looks like a 512k Mac appears on the desk next to his stinky AT in the background. I seriously doubt that you’d find a Dual-G5 and Cinema Display sharing space with Mr. Gates P4 if you visited his office at Redmond these days…
Wired profiles one of the more interesting Mac software developers around, Delicious Monster. This is the group behind the fascinating Delicious Library, their first release, an app that fuels what Wired calls some users ‘Nick Hornby-esque desire to catalog every song, book and movie on their living room shelves.’ These guys don’t have an office – the seven employees typically meet in a local coffee shop all day long, paying ‘rent’ by buying lots of coffee. With the innovation and successs of ‘Library,’ which uses an iSight to read bar codes and look up data about your stuff on the ‘net, they might be able to have their own office – with it’s own barista – soon.
Apple-X.net has a scoop this morning. They have an extensive set of screen shots of Apple’s new iWork application. Lots of looks at templates for Keynote2 as well as Pages. No big surprises, but the apps look good. I’m glad I’ve pre-ordered mine ;-).
