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I have been Macified. After not owning a Macintosh for more than 12 years I finally decided that the undeniable coolness and beauty of the hardware and particularly of OS X meant that it was time to get religion! The beast, which arrived a couple of weeks ago, is a Power Mac G5 with dual 2-GHz processors and 1.5G bytes of RAM running OS X Tiger. What a gorgeous piece of engineering! It is an elegant design even under the hood: When you need to take off the side to, for example, add extra RAM, one latch frees the panel....

Editors' rating: Excellent - 9.0 out of 10 Thanks to a much lower price and a new, photographer-friendly feature, the latest version of the iPod Photo should get more than its share of looks. Offering a full-color, 16-bit screen as well as 30GB and 60GB capacities, the iPod Photo displays photos and album art in an interface that's undeniably Apple. From the ease with which one loads photos on to the device to the browsing of thumbnails and images on the iPod itself, the overall experience is positive and warm. Plus, the mammoth 60GB iPod can hold as many as 15,000...

No article - Apple has announced the winners of their iPhoto contest. There are some outstanding entries, but I thought to for our military friends and fans, you might appreciate the entry made by the entry by Scott Varley, who submitted a variety of images taken with digital cameras on board the U.S.S. John C. Stennis and the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln aircraft carriers. Go to iPhoto Contest Winners and scroll down to Scott's entry. It loads a nice slide show.