Apple Introduces New Products

Apple ^ | 01/07/03

[Djarum]

Software

Safari A free web browser for OS X
Keynote Presentation software offering rich graphics capabilities - $99
iLife iTunes 3, iPhoto 2, iMovie 3, iDVD 3, all bundled for $49 or (with the exception of iDVD) available separately for free
Final Cut Express A lite version of FC Pro - $299

Hardware

PowerBook G4 12" Apple's most compact notebook, starting at $1799
PowerBook G4 17" The largest screen in the portable market, starting at $3299

Apple.com

[Djarum]

Check the links for much more info.

[Djarum]

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[Billy_bob_bob]

Posting this reply from the Safari browser. It's very fast, and from what I've seen so far it works pretty well. Not bad for a beta release. Not bad at all!

[drjoe]

Actually it IS fast. ALas how do I import bookmarks from Omniweb? _ I suppose one at a time. Sigh!!!

[Billy_bob_bob]

Strangest thing just happened. I quit the Safari browser, then went to re-start it, and it won't come up! I've re-installed but still the same problem. Of course, this is BETA software, so perfection isn't expected. But it's no fun to see how great it is and then watch it fold up and quit working at all! I imagine a patch will be coming out very soon, my guess is within the next week or so.

[mhking]

Safari is a port of Konqueror from the LINUX side of the world. I'm pretty impressed with the speed and rendering though. Ah, well. Time to go home and back to the WinTel side of the world...[sigh]

[cmsgop]

I played with Safari today. Very Quick, I like it!

[savedbygrace]

Don't know about Omniweb, but it automatically found all my IE5.2 bookmarks without me doing anything.

I click on the open book icon just below the Back button, and near the bottom of the folder list in the lefthand column is "Imported IE Favorites." Cool.

[savedbygrace]

Maybe your install got hosed. I'm not having that problem (MDD G4 1GHzDP, 1.75GB DDR RAM.)

[Djarum]

More specifics on this thread:

Macworld Expo keynote coverage recap

[HAL9000]

Strangest thing just happened. I quit the Safari browser, then went to re-start it, and it won't come up!

Perhaps your Prefs file is messed up.

Try deleting this file and see if it helps -

{HOME}/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

[Bush2000]

Strangest thing just happened. I quit the Safari browser, then went to re-start it, and it won't come up! I've re-installed but still the same problem. Of course, this is BETA software, so perfection isn't expected. But it's no fun to see how great it is and then watch it fold up and quit working at all! I imagine a patch will be coming out very soon, my guess is within the next week or so.

So much for the much-vaunted Mac "quality"...

[TomServo]

So much for the much-vaunted Mac "quality"...

C'mon - it's Microsoft's fault. ;-)

[savedbygrace]

So much for the much-vaunted Mac "quality"...

With this logic, it's easy to see why you're a Windoze dude, B2K. For you, "quality" = perfection. Sheesh.

In my office here, I've got a WinXP Pro box (P4 2.4GHz [533FSB] on an Asus P4S533 mobo with 1GB PC2700 DDR SDRAM) in front of me and a G4 (mirror door G4 1GHzDP with 1.75GB PC2700 DDR SDRAM) sitting a few feet to my right.

The Mac has never given me a hint of a problem. The PC I built myself, and today is the first time it's been right since I put it together on Thanksgiving Day. Yesterday I replaced the motherboard, which was the cause of all the problems. Other than that, WinXP on this box and WinXP on my previous box are nearly as stable as Mac OS X v10.2.2.

I say nearly, but all things considered, I'd say the WinXP box is 5 to 10 percent less stable overall.

That's coming from someone who regularly uses both platforms.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Sure enough, that worked! Thanks! I'll keep that Prefs file thingy in mind for future reference. Thanks again!

[MadIvan]

I'm such a computer geek - I must have one of the 17in Powerbooks.

Regards, Ivan

[Billy_bob_bob]

Just FYI, I got the browser working again. Seems to be working fine now. Also, this is beta software, so it is really rather impressive that it works as well as it does. Some companies release software that hardly works at all and call it a finished product. Apple releases software that is %90 complete and calls it a beta version, to be followed by a full release. I like the Apple way better.

[HAL9000]

So much for the much-vaunted Mac "quality"...

It is clearly labeled as a beta version. The preference file problem should be fixed in the final release.

[Last Visible Dog]

The Mac has never given me a hint of a problem. The PC I built myself, and today is the first time it's been right since I put it together on Thanksgiving Day.

Did you build the Mac yourself? Maybe it is not the processor or the operating system that was the problem. When you can build your own Mac, get back to us.

[cmsgop]

For all you Naysayers..........
http://www.apple.com/hardware/video/powerbookg4_012003.html