Apple Announces Highest Q4 Earnings in 9 Years
MacNN reports on Apples Q4 financial results. Apple Earned $106M or $0.22 per diluted share. This was above the estimated $0.18 per diluted share predicted. The increased earnings are mainly attributed to a 500% increase in iPod sales over Q4 of 2003. as well as an all around increase in portables and desktop CPU sales.

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20040927 - iMac G5 - Elegant, Powerful and Surprisingly Affordable

iPod A/V, Tiger and New iBooks
iBooks
MacGadget.de is reporting that Apple may update the iBooks this Tuesday. While my sources are saying that the iBooks and PowerBooks will be updated soon, they have not heard a specific date. They could also not rule out a Tuesday release.

Apple traditionally releases updates on Tuesdays to maximize press time. It would not be a stretch to beleive that Apple is going to release the new iBooks in line with the opening of the EDUCAUSE Conference in Denver Colorado, October 19th.

Tiger
A number of sites have reported that Amazon.com has "let the cat out of the bag" on the release date of Tiger. Amazon reported a release date of March 31, 2005 for Apple's Latest OS but has since relisted the OS as discontinued.


iPod A/V
As I reported in June of 2004, Apple appears to be readying the iPod A/V for launch. Many rumor sites have picked up this story and are reporting that it will be compatible with iPhoto for users to carry their photo libraries in their iPod. My sources still contend that the iPod A/V is being designed to allow users to download full length Music Videos and hopefully feature length films for viewing on the 2" color LCD or through the A/V ports on a Television.

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20041012 - OS X 10.3.6 Soon


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New eMacs Out
Apple announced its "Faster, More Affordable eMac" today. The specs are as follows;

The 17-inch flat CRT eMac, for a suggested retail price of $799 (US) includes:

1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 processor;

256MB of 333 MHz DDR SDRAM;

a 32x Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) optical drive;

five USB ports (three USB 2.0) and two Firewire 400;

ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB video memory; and

a 40GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive.
The 17-inch flat CRT eMac, for a suggested retail price of $999 (US) includes:

1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 processor;

256MB of 333 MHz DDR SDRAM;

an 8x SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) optical drive;

five USB ports (three USB 2.0) and two Firewire 400;

ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB video memory; and

an 80GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive.