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Apple Boosts Performance of Its Laptops.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2001
By Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 18--Apple Computer called 2001 the Year of the Portable, and the company seems determined to end the year in style -- by goosing performance, but not prices.
Updated versions of the iBook consumer laptop and the Titanium PowerBook G4 professional laptop should reach store shelves by this weekend, the company said. Both laptop lines get a performance boost (PowerBook G4s now top out at 667MHz and iBook G3s at 600MHz), a new power adapter design, bigger hard drives, and Mac OS 10.1. The PowerBook line gets loads of memory, gigabit Ethernet, and a CD-burning option.
Let's start with the iBooks. Three additions to the iBook line have 600 megahertz G3 processors...
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