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The new iPhone Manual

iPhone hysteria? Not yet ....

Chicago / San Francisco

 

We just stopped by the Chicago Apple flagship store and were greeted by chaos — at least 35 to 40 people in line and a media frenzy of interviews taking place. Tyler Tessmann, the first guy in line, had gotten there at 2:30 and was holding court with NBC 5, while the rest of the media patiently waited to pounce. The store seemed busy but ready — employees told us that most of the prep was done, and that the store was closing down tomorrow just to manage to crowd flow.

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San Francisco

So far, the throngs of iPhone-demanding humanity beating on the glass shells of Apple Stores across the globe haven’t materialized — at least not here in Apple’s backyard. At this point, the line consists of about one woman, four gentlemen, and three clowns. For whatever reason, we were expecting more (way more) people and generally fewer clowns. Are the contract requirements and price keeping the buying public at bay? We’ll know tomorrow! Stay tuned for more updates live from the San Francisco outpost.

 

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New Picasa Mapping Option

I think this is rather nice, just drop your pictures in Google's Picasa Web Album in a map.

 

 

From Engadget: Apple iPhone review roundup

Apple iPhone review roundup

 

With just a few days to go before launch, Apple has apparently lifted its embargo on the lucky few journos to get their hands on an iPhone a couple weeks early, and David Pogue, Walt Mossberg and USA Today's Edward C. Baig are doing the first honors. And honors abound: three out of three reviewers agree that the iPhone is pretty much the sexiest phone to ever hit the market, and there was no small amount of praise for the high resolution screen, svelte form factor and sturdy construction -- nano scratchers rejoice, nobody managed to make a mark on this thing. The iPhone turns out to be a bit of conundrum, excelling and even revolutionizing certain phone functions, while utterly failing at others. First the bad: call quality is only average, and AT&T's weak sauce signal wasn't doing the iPhone any favors. It also can be a rather multi-step affair to even make a call, since there's no home screen speed dial or voice recognition, and the phonebook can't be searched, only scrolled through. Other failings like the lack of MMS, IM chat and video recording are even more mysterious. And that EDGE data? Pogue found himself longing for the days of dial-up, while waiting 1-2 minutes for popular sites to load, and while WiFi was quick to save the day in many instances, that's hardly an excuse in the year 2007. Luckily, there's plenty to love about this new approach to phoning, like an excellent web browser, mail client, visual voicemail and Cover Flow-enhanced iPod functions -- they're what Apple has been tooting its horn about, and they all seem to work as advertised. The keyboard more or less requires "faith" in the word auto-correction -- an Apple rep likened it to using The Force -- and while all three reviewers were able to get up to speed sooner or later, it's most certainly agreed that this is no BlackBerry-killer. Battery life was a non-issue, outstripping most smartphones, and nearly meeting Apple's claims.

Read - David Pogue "The iPhone matches most of its hype"
Read - Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret "Despite its network limitations, the iPhone is a whole new experience and a pleasure to use" (Check out Walt's video review after the break)
Read - Edward C. Baig "Apple's iPhone isn't perfect, but it's worthy of the hype"
Read - Steven Levy "one of the most hyped consumer products ever comes pretty close to justifying the bombast."

Continue reading Apple iPhone review roundup

 

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From Engadget: iPhone rate plans revealed, at-home activation announced

Even though they could probably charge $500 a month for service and still sign up a grip of Apple fanboys, AT&T has announced that it will be offering the iPhone for much more reasonable rates, starting at just $60 for 450 minutes and "unlimited" data; that's right, the data plan is wrapped up nice and tight with voice service in your obligatory two-year contract. Scoring 900 or 1,350 minutes will set you back $80 and $100 per month, respectively, although no matter what plan you choose, you're getting 200 text messages, unlimited mobile-to-mobile calls, and a ton of night and weekend minutes (5,000 for the starter plan, unlimited for the other two). If you're unfortunate lucky enough to be stocking up on iPhones for the whole family, shared bundles of 700, 1,400, and 2,100 minutes (all with 200 SMS messages and unlimited night and weekend calls) can be had for $80, $100, or $120, depending on call volume. Finally, to keep existing customers from going crazy waiting for their contracts to expire, AT&T is also offering its current subscribers a $20 option to tack on the iPhone data plan -- which goes up to $30 or $40 if you need to jack up your SMS limit to 1,500 or unlimited messages.

In more good news -- well, depending on how you look at it -- Apple has announced that customers will be able to activate their new phones via an iTunes sync, saving them from spending even an extra minute in an AT&T store they will have surely grown to despise. On the down side, if you do have problems with your activation -- remember the initial iTunes / Vista issues? -- it'll be just that much more difficult to troubleshoot as you and 2 million other frustrated users flood AT&T's customer service line simultaneously. Good times, folks, good times.

 

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Are they nuts?

THE FBI IS visiting the nation's top technical universities in a bid to stop students taking their holidays outside the country.

MIT, Boston College, and the University of Massachusetts, have all had a visit from the spooks to warn them about the dangers of foreign spies and terrorists stealing sensitive academic research.

The FBI wants the universities to impose rules that will stop US university students from working late at the campus, travelling abroad, showing an interest in their colleagues' work, or have friends outside the United States, engaging in independent research, or making extra money without the prior consent of the authorities.

The rules are part of guidelines given to administrators by the FBI.

The Feds are convinced that if you are doing any of these things you are likely to be a foreign agent who is nicking technology for foreign powers.

Following rules which have been abandoned in Eastern Europe, faculty, staff and students are encouraged to spy on their colleagues for signs of suspicious behaviour and report any concerns to the FBI or the military.

There is no indication yet that the universities will follow this advice.

Some housing pictures in Weesp

Growth at site

actually a factor 25+ (with June not finished), nice to see :-).

 

Frankenreview: 7 Takes on the Santa Rosa MacBook Pros

Frankenreview: 7 Takes on the Santa Rosa MacBook Pros

 

We've already shown you the new MacBook Pro benchmarks, which show respectable improvements over the old model, not just because of the new Santa Rosa chipset, but Nvidia's new monster 8600M makes short work of 3D gaming. But what about the other features? How's the battery life? What's the deal on those LED screens? Is the MBP still hot enough to sterilize me if actually left on the lap? Hit the jump to see what they reviewers have to say on the new 15-inch laptops beyond the benchmarks.

Touchy Fire-Fly
If you touch the computer it results warm, but much cooler than my previous MacBook Pro with the lower limit of the cooling fan setted to 2000 rpm.

CNET
Perhaps the biggest improvement in the revamped MacBook Pro is in battery life. ... we got an impressive 3 hours and 35 minutes with our DVD battery drain test--that's 36 minutes more than the non-LED version of the MacBook Pro...[and] you can expect longer life from casual Web surfing and typical office use.

Ars Technica
Intel's new mobile platform ups the front-side bus speed to 800MHz from 667MHz while adding support for Dynamic FSB Switching, which allows the FSB to be underclocked in order to save power. There's a new 965 Mobile Express chipset and built-in support for 802.11n, as well as Intel Turbo Memory.

PCWorld
The new [GeForce 8600M] chip is designed to improve performance with demanding programs, such as 3-D games and HD video editors. Indeed, in frames-per-second tests with id Software's Quake 4 and Doom 3 games...improvements of 25 to 60 percent...

Notebook Review
LED back-lighting is touted to provide a more evenly lit screen with sharper images and colors without sacrificing battery life. All these I find to be true, the screen is without a doubt the best i've ever seen on a laptop, and better than a lot of desktop monitors I use. With the brightness up to full, even in the most well lit rooms, solid whites are almost blinding,

Computerworld
The only difference in software is the version of OS X being used. Earlier models run Build 8P2137; the new one runs 8Q1058 -- tweaked, no doubt, to run smoothly on the new chips...the best laptop Apple has ever made.

MacInTouch
Past MacBook Pro models have not been without their issues, from overheating to sparkly displays to uneven lid gaps to optical drive problems. If our test unit is indicative, all of these issues have been addressed

Now if I could convince my wife that I needed to upgrade from my old model...

 

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Sweikhuizen

Yesterday I was in Liege, Belgium, to visit a client and on the way back visited my nephew and his wife. They live in Sweikhuizen, a very small town (700 people) in the south of Limburg. From their home you can see Belgium and Germany.

Every 3 years there is a pelgrimage, this Sunday again.

This what they designed and constructed this year, the Sweikhuizen Church.

 

 

From Wikipedia NL

Sweikhuizen (Limburgs: Zjweikese of Sjweikese) is een woonkern grenzend aan Geleen en Spaubeek behorende tot de gemeente Schinnen.

Sweikhuizen ligt op een vrij steile heuvel. Halverwege de helling ligt een kleine kerk die in 1739 gebouwd is. Onder aan de Sweikhuizerberg ligt een monumentale hoeve. De Biezenhof.

Aangenomen wordt dat de naam Sweikhuizen afkomstig is van het woord Zweihuizen oftewel twee huizen. De naam slaat op de bebouwing tussen twee huizen. Men vermoed dat de Stammenhof gelegen boven op de heuvel het boven- en de Biessenhof onder aan de heuvel het benedenhuis was.

Het dorp is een bedevaartsoord voor blinden en slechtzienden. Vanaf 1851 kent Sweikhuizen een Odiliadevotie. Sinds 1929 worden er jaarlijks blindenbedevaarten gehouden met deelname vanuit geheel Nederland. De blinden- en slechtziendenbedevaart werd in 1929 gesticht door de blinde pater Lucianus, minderbroeder-conventueel te Urmond en geestelijk adviseur van de afdeling Limburg van de R.K. Blindenbond St. Odilia.

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From Engadget: Stranger every day ...

Ralph Lauren unveils "touch-sensitive window shopping" in London

 

Filed under: Displays, Misc. Gadgets

Alright, the whole touchscreen thing is getting a little out of hand. In the latest example of touch-frenzy, luxe clothier Ralph Lauren is converting a large window at its London flagship store into a giant touchscreen shopping experience as part of its Wimbledon marketing campaign. Much like Microsoft's Big-Ass Table, the 78-inch window is coated with touch-sensitive foil, and the image is beamed onto it by a hidden projector -- allowing users to purchase Ralph's latest duds and even take in a tennis lesson or two. Purchases are paid for via phone or email the next day -- so you can't explain away that $75 pink polo by saying you accidentally brushed the screen.

[Via Switched]

 

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From CrunchGear: That is big ...

AT&T Hires 2,000 Extra Employees For iPhone Launch

 

Never again do I want to hear people complaining that they couldn’t find a summer job. Seems AT&T is so confident that people will show up for the iPhone in droves, it has taken the liberty of hiring an extra 2,000 employees to prepare for the madness. To make sense of how big the iPhone launch is going to be, here are some hot statistics:

 

1,800 AT&T retail stores exist and will all be selling the iPhone

AT&T sales staff have received a total of 100,000 hours of training to sell the device, with each employee receiving about six hours of individual training

AT&T stores will close locally at 4:30 p.m. on that Friday to prepare for the launch, then reopen at 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. that night.

 

I’m going to be laughing all the way home if Apple and AT&T do all this training and preparation, only to find three dudes with fat wallets sitting outside a store on June 29. It’s almost here kids.

AT&T hires 2,000 extra workers for iPhone launch [Yahoo! News]

 

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All in Lego, real Masterpieces …..

Very special ending ….

This evening the semi-finals of the European Soccer Cup “Under 21″ had a bizarre ending. After 90 minutes and extra time 1-1. Penalties had to follow:

Netherlands - England
1-1 nv (1-1/0-1). 39. Lita 0-1, 89. Rigters 1-1.

Young 0-1, Babel 1-1, Milner 1-2, Drenthe misses, Noble 1-3, Janssen 2-3, Hoyte misses, Beerens 3-3, Derbyshire 3-4, Maduro 4-4, Ferdinand 4-5, De Ridder 5-5, Carson 5-6, Zuiverloon 6-6, Rosenior 6-7, Rigters 7-7, Reo-Coker misses, Kruiswijk misses, Taylor 7-8, Waterman 8-8, Young 8-9, Beerens 9-9, Milner 9-10, Drenthe 10-10, Noble 10-11, Maduro 11-11, Hoyte 11-12, Janssen 12-12, Derbyshire misses, De Ridder misses, Ferdinand misses, Zuiverloon 13-12.

Originally by the Dutch (murdered) moviemaker Theo van Gogh

1408 - Trailer 1r The only demons in room 1408 are those within you. Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin (Cusack) only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin’s phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project, “Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms.” Defying the warnings of the hotel manager (Jackson), the author is the first person in years to stay in the reputedly haunted room. Another bestseller may be imminent, but like all Stephen King heroes, Enslin must go from skeptic to true believer - and ultimately survive the night. Directed by: Mikael Hafstrom Starring: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub

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From Engadget: iPhone Dock

Looks like the inclusion of a handy YouTube button isn't the only fresh news on the iPhone front this morning, as two strangely protective photos of the iPhone dock attempt to show off an accessory that could be dangling by your wallet whilst waiting in line to check out next Friday. The two pictures of the unsurprisingly white device (one shown after the break) fail to reveal any ports or connections whatsoever, but "sources" over at ThinkSecret are suggesting that a charging port will indeed be included to give iPhone dock purchasers a single base to juice up their mobile and headset. Not too many details beyond that just yet, but don't expect such a useful hunk of plastic to run you cheap when it lands.

[Via Think Secret]

 

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Pagico

I am also working on the translation of Pagico. Check it out for yourself, really nice product!

Latest info on the product written by Pagico.

The lite version of Pagico (Standard). It comes with exact features for you to manage all kinds of your data (take notes, make lists or to-do lists, make outlines or plans, and manage documents), build your own knowledge base.

Pagico allows you to centralize your stuff in “topics” and manage your topics with extremely powerful tagging feature — “TagExplore!,” which automatically generates tree views out of your tags, on the fly.

There is no relationship and schedule management features, so it’s easier to get on hand and enjoy.

Suitable for educators who do not manage students, and businessmen who do not manage customer relationships. More details on the comparison between Basic and Standard are listed on website.

What’s New in this Version
- Two editions: Basic and Standard!
- Bug fixes for TagExplore! feature

From Engadget: Youtube on the iPhone

The wait is over, and you can finally train that Apple Remote of yours on videos of passable karaoke, mind numbing video blog confessions and the genius that is Daxflame. That's right, YouTube is hitting the Apple TV today, an announcement that is totally overshadowed by a little surprise Apple packed into the press release: YouTube is the iPhone mystery app. Sure, it might not be GPS or anything useful like that, but Apple seems to be aware of our addiction and is happy to oblige. YouTube videos can be viewed through an Apple-built application on the phone, and will be encoded in H.264 by YouTube to improve video quality and battery life on mobile devices. They'll have 10,000 videos ready by June 29th, and should complete transcoding the collection by this fall. Videos can be viewed over WiFi or EDGE, we don't want to even imagine the painful load times of the latter.

 

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Space Intruder

What?

19,000,000 People Want to Buy the iPhone

According to the market research firm M:Metrics, 19 million Americans have a “strong interest in purchasing the iPhone.”“This data confirms that the iPhone has sparked the imaginations of consumers and is not merely a topic of conversation among insiders and technology enthusiasts,” said Mark Donovan, senior vice president and senior analyst, M:Metrics.19 million Americans is a lot of people! And don’t worry: they assured us in their study that they did in fact tell people how much it would cost them and how AT&T is the only provider. Even more staggering, 67% of those people are subscribers on other phone networks.Here are some stats to put the 19 million number in perspective:Current U.S. Population: 302,121,988Current number of iPods Sold: 100,000,000+Current number of Motorola RAZRs Sold: 50,000,000+Current number of AT&T Wireless Subscribers: 49,100,000+[Via PC World]

 

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From Gizmodo

Apple: Apple Corrects iPhone Competitive Data Chart

 

 

As several alert readers already noticed, iPhone isn't the only Wi-Fi device in the chart. The Nokia N95 does indeed have it too. Above you'll see the corrected chart that Apple released a few minutes ago. Follow the jump to see them both. Why? Because it's fun to laugh at human error on a Monday morning, I suppose. – Wilson Rothman

Original chart:

 

Apple Gives iPhone Glass Face and Extends Talk Time To 8 Hours [Gizmodo]

 

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Could this be true?

Apple Developing Car Navigation System?

German Magazine Focus is reporting (google translation) that Apple is working on car navigation and sound systems. Apple is said to be working for an introduction in 2009, working with Merecedes exclusively for 6 months.

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From TechCrunch: YouTube Remixer: Edit Videos Online At YouTube

YouTube has officially launched YouTube Remixer, a new service that allows users to edit their videos from within YouTube itself.

The new feature is powered by Adobe Premiere Express and supports insertion of graphics, text and audio as well as overlays and in-video transitions. YouTube Remixer is nearly identical to Photobucket’s Remix tool; both are powered by Adobe.

 

This isn’t an offering that is going to be embraced by serious content creators but it is ideal for casual YouTube uploaders. The interface is fairly simple if perhaps a little bit dull and boring. Creating a one stop shop for all things video at YouTube is a natural progression path that gives prosumers another reason to spend more time on the site; it’s just that it’s grey, uninspiring and so very not Google. I can also find no personal appeal in adding Gingerbread men to my videos; however others may view the service differently.

Safari for Windows Updated to 3.0.1

After security concerns about Apple's new Safari Beta for Windows arose earlier this week, Apple has issued an update to Safari for Windows.

According to Macworld, the update addresses a number of security issues:

The security improvements in Safari Beta 3.0.1 include correction for a "command injection vulnerability," corrected with additional processing and validation of URLs that could otherwise lead to an unexpected termination of the browser; an out-of-bounds memory read issue; and a race condition that can allow cross-site scripting using a JavaScript exploit

The new version is available through Apple's software update or downloaded from Apple's site

That is rather early ...

Amazon Offers Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) for Pre-Order

Amazon has begun offering Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) for pre-ordering on their website.

Amazon first listed Leopard on June 12th, a day after Apple's WWDC keynote announcing Leopard's new features. It is already ranked as the 51st most p...

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From Techcrunch: New direction?

Apple To Integrate iTunes Into Bebo

Apple has announced a deal that will see the its popular iTunes service embedded into Bebo.

According to FT.com, Bebo’s 8.8m users in the UK and Ireland will be able to buy music directly from the profile of any musician who has a Bebo profile and whose music is available on iTunes.

The deal is a first for Apple. Bebo is a market leader in social networking in the United Kingdom despite not taking off to the same extent elsewhere.

It may not seem like major news, but to put it in perspective it’s on half hour leading story rotation on BBC World as I write this. It may also be indicative of a new direction for Apple; the wildly popular Facebook F8 is delivering benefits to many music related sites. To date Apple has remained silent in regards to its position on embracing the growing trend of social networking site integration.

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Not for us Dutch yet .....

Get Ready for iPhone

iPhone arrives on June 29. iPhone features an amazing mobile phone, is the best iPod we've ever created, and puts the Internet in your pocket with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching, and maps. And iPhone makes it all easy to use with its revolutionary multi-touch user interface. iPhone syncs with your PC or Mac just like an iPod, so organizing your content now will help you start calling, texting, emailing, surfing, listening, and watching even faster when you get your iPhone. Here are a few suggestions to help you get ready:

Contacts

Making a call with iPhone is as simple as tapping a name. You won't need to re-enter all your contacts because iPhone syncs with the address book you already use on your computer—Address Book or Entourage on a Mac, or Outlook or Outlook Express on a PC. If you keep your contacts on the web using Yahoo! Address Book, iPhone can sync with them, too. To get ready for iPhone, organize your contacts in one of these applications and make sure they're up to date with the latest phone numbers and email addresses. If you don't have contacts on your computer, don't worry. You can still enter them directly into iPhone.

Calendar

Using its built-in calendar, iPhone lets you check your appointments with the flick of a finger. iPhone uses iTunes to sync with the calendar application you already use on your computer—iCal or Entourage on the Mac, or Outlook on a PC—just like it does with your contacts. If you don't already use one of these applications to manage your appointments, now is a great time to start, so you'll be ready to sync when your iPhone arrives. If you choose not to use a calendar program, that's OK. You'll be able to enter appointments directly into the iPhone calendar.

Email

iPhone is the first phone to come with a desktop-class email application. So now your phone can display rich HTML email with graphics and photos alongside the text. iPhone will even fetch your latest email every time you open the application and automatically retrieve your email on a set schedule, just like a computer does. iPhone works with the most popular email systems—including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL, and .Mac Mail. If you're not already using one of these services, now would be a great time to get an account. iTunes will make email setup on iPhone a breeze by automatically syncing the settings from email accounts stored in Mail on a Mac or Outlook on a PC. Don't worry if you're not on one of these email services; iPhone also works with almost any industry-standard POP3 and IMAP email system.

Photos

iPhone has a 2-megapixel camera and a gorgeous 3.5-inch display, so it's a great way to enjoy and show off your digital photos. iPhone uses iTunes to sync your photos from iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Album, or any picture folder on a PC. You can carry thousands of photos on iPhone, but you can start by creating an album or two with 50 to 100 of your favorite photos, so that when you first sync your iPhone, you'll be ready to quickly show off some of your best shots.

Music and Video

iPhone is the best iPod ever. Its beautiful, 3.5-inch widescreen display allows you to easily enjoy the music, TV shows, and movies you have in your iTunes library. If you already use iTunes, you can start getting ready for iPhone by creating a playlist of a few hundred of your favorite songs. If you don't have iTunes, now is a good time to download it and start a music and video library. That way, when you sync your iPhone with iTunes, you'll be able to take your favorite music, as well as a few of your TV shows and movies, with you wherever you go.

iTunes Account

To set up your iPhone, you'll need an account with Apple's iTunes Store. If you already have an iTunes account, make sure you know your account name and password. If you don't have an account, you should set one up now to save time later. To set up an account, launch iTunes, select the iTunes Store, and click the Sign In button in the upper right corner of iTunes. Sign in and you're ready to go.

Safari comes to Windows: Public beta posted

Safari is now platform-agnostic. Apple's venerable Web browser has made its way to Windows, with a public beta immediately available. The company says it is using the success it found in building Windows applications like iTunes to develop the best browser for Windows. Apple claims it is already the fastest browser for Windows, touting an application launch time of .88 seconds vs. 2.48 seconds for Internet Explorer 7.

Other performance stats: "Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2."

Apple says this testing was conducted in June 2007 on a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo-based iMac system running Windows XP Professional SP2, configured with 1GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon X1600 with 128MB of VRAM. HTML and JavaScript benchmarks based on VeriTest’s iBench Version 5.0 using default settings.

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From Techcrunch: Apple Rental Movies

Rental Movies Coming To Apple

Apple may have enough experience with selling movies now that they realize the music market is very different from the movie market. A lot of people want to own music to listen to it over and over again over the years, but far less want to own movies. Watching it once and moving on seems to be good enough for most people.

So Apple’s model of selling movies for $10 and up may leave a considerable chunk of the market on the table. That explains why they are now apparently negotiating with major studios for rights to rent movies via iTunes as well.

The new service may be coming this Fall, and will cost $2.99 for a 30-day rental.

This is also good news for Apple TV users, who will be able to download new movies and watch them on their living room televisions. The day when we can all simply abandon our cable TV subscriptions is coming; I plan to do it at the end of 2007.

By the way, this isn’t the first time rumors about rental movies on iTunes surfaced. See our post from a year ago on the same topic. It isn’t a sure thing until Steve Jobs gets up on a stage and announces it.

Many other services already support movie rentals. See our roundup post from late 2006 for details.

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