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 Portables From Apple
Apple released its new lineup of PowerBooks and iBooks today. The configurations are as follows;

12" iBook $1,099.00 1GHz PowerPC G4 512K L2 cache @ 1GHz 12-inch TFT Display 1024x768 resolution 256MB DDR266 SDRAM 30GB Ultra ATA drive Combo Drive ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 32MB DDR video memory AirPort Extreme ready	14" iBook $1,299.00 1GHz PowerPC G4 512K L2 cache @ 1GHz 14-inch TFT Display 1024x768 resolution 256MB DDR266 SDRAM 40GB Ultra ATA drive Combo Drive ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 32MB DDR video memory AirPort Extreme ready	14" iBook $1,499.00 1.2GHz PowerPC G4 512K L2 cache @ 1GHz 14-inch TFT Display 1024x768 resolution 256MB DDR266 SDRAM 60GB Ultra ATA drive Combo Drive ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 32MB DDR video memory AirPort Extreme built-in
12" PowerBook(Combo Drive) $1,599.00 12.1-inch TFT Display 1024x768 resolution 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 512K L2 cache 256MB DDR333 SDRAM 60GB Ultra ATA/100 NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 (64MB DDR) Full size keyboard 10/100BASE-T Ethernet FireWire 400 AirPort Extreme built-in Mini-DVI out	12" PowerBook(Super Drive) $1,799.00 12.1-inch TFT Display 1024x768 resolution 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 512K L2 cache 256MB DDR333 SDRAM 60GB Ultra ATA/100 NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 (64MB DDR) Full size keyboard 10/100BASE-T Ethernet FireWire 400 AirPort Extreme built-in Mini-DVI out	15" PowerBook(Combo Drive) $1,999.00 15.2-inch TFT Display 1280x854 resolution 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 512K L2 cache 256MB DDR333 SDRAM 60GB Ultra ATA/100 ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (64MB DDR) Full size keyboard Gigabit Ethernet FireWire 400 & 800 AirPort Extreme built-in DVI & S-Video out
15" PowerBook(Super Drive) $2,499.00 15.2-inch TFT Display 1280x854 resolution 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 512K L2 cache 512MB DDR333 SDRAM 80GB Ultra ATA/100 ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (64MB DDR) Backlit keyboard Gigabit Ethernet FireWire 400 & 800 AirPort Extreme built-in DVI & S-Video out	17" PowerBook(Super Drive) $2,799.00 17-inch TFT Display 1440x900 resolution 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 512K L2 cache 512MB DDR333 SDRAM 80GB Ultra ATA/100 ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (64MB DDR) Backlit Keyboard Gigabit Ethernet FireWire 400 & 800 AirPort Extreme built-in DVI & S-Video out