A Mac for all seasons
p2pnet.net News:- With non-stop complaints from the RIAA and MPAA about the proliferation of unauthorised ‘product,’ Apple Computer has just announced its "Complete DVD Burning Solution" at a trifling $999.
Among other things, it offers iDVD for "creating and burning Hollywood-style DVDs" and one of the options is Apple’s 8x SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) "for the ability to burn professional-quality DVDs at double the DVD-burning speed as before".
With Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther pre-installed, eMac provides "everything you need for today’s digital lifestyle" including applications for creating and managing digital photos, music and movies, brags Greg Joswiak, vp of Hardware Product Marketing.
The new Apple comes with iLife ‘04, including iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie "for digital movie-making", iDVD for "creating and burning Hollywood-style DVDs" and GarageBand.
It has 17-inch flat CRT display (16-inch viewable) supporting screen resolutions of up to 1280-by-960 pixels in 24-bit color; 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 processors; either a Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) drive for watching DVD movies and burning CDs or Apple’s 8x SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW).
And it comes with hard drives up to 80GB and high-performance ATI Radeon 9200 graphics with dedicated video memory for outstanding graphics performance and realistic game play.
It also has an optional internal Bluetooth module and a built-in antenna and card slot to support an optional AirPort Extreme Card for 54 Mbps 802.11g fast wireless networking. With a total of five USB ports (three USB 2.0) and two FireWire ports, eMac desktops offer easy plug-and-play connections to popular peripherals such as iPod, digital video camcorders, and digital still cameras and printers," says Apple.
"eMac also includes built-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet and a 56K V.92 modem."
April 13th, 2004 at 6:01 pm
Comes fully loaded with DRM!!! No charge to customers…
Apple has its head so far up the RIAA’s ass I wouldnt trust anything from them now.
April 13th, 2004 at 9:08 pm
what does that last comment mean? “loaded with DRM,” I really don’t understand. If you refer to the iTMS, that has nothing to do with the computer, if you refer to DVD Copying… well of course they can’t make it obvious, Apple doesn’t want to get sued. It’s still very easy to copy DVDs on a Mac. The point is that the new eMac a “Complete DVD Burning Solution” ostensibly for making your own DVDs, and $999 is a damn good price for a video editing, DVD burning machine.
Anyway, What DRM are you talking about?
April 14th, 2004 at 3:09 am
Your an idiot. Let people steal from you and see how you react!
The RIAA may be a bunch of pricks. Record companies may overcharge and screw over their artists. If you have a better answer, start your own record company that gives away all of the music. Lets see how long you do it!
Anything that Apple has for DRM is easily broken, and really is very trivial. And these “asskissers” are the only ones that have some solution that is making most of the people involved in music happy.
Some time I would like someone to come up with a real answer to what they don’t like about a product. Instead, it is the common thing on the internet to say, “It sucks, because I don’t get stuff for free!” Get over it and grow up!
April 14th, 2004 at 3:10 pm
Their is DRM via the iTunes Music Store (though the app PlayFair has cracked the FairPlay DRM), but this hasn’t got anything to do with the machine. Microsoft is actually more DRM obsessed than than Apple! And iTunes 4 will still play whatever mp3 files you have. I’ve made copies of my DVD’s on both my Macs. Do a little research before spouting ignorant crap.