[MyAppleMenu] Apr 14, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

== AppleSurf (Top Stories) ===============

Apple Posts Mac OS X 10.0.1 Update (Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news/01/698.html>
Mac OS X users have been anxiously awaiting the first update to Mac OS X. Apple late Friday delivered the first update to the new operating system.

== AppleSurf (News) ===============

Apple Posts Mac OS X 10.0.1 Update (Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news/01/698.html>
Mac OS X users have been anxiously awaiting the first update to Mac OS X. Apple late Friday delivered the first update to the new operating system.

667 Gets Eighty-Sixed (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2001/04/13/motorola.html>
If you don't already own a 667MHz Power Mac G4 or have an order pending for one, it's likely that you'll never get your hands on that machine. Apple has stopped taking orders for the 667MHz configuration of its G4 Macs, and it doesn't appear that the company will resume taking those orders anytime in the foreseeable future.

Apple Employees Working At CompUSA (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0104/13.compusa.shtml>

Is Apple Seeing Double? (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5594950.html?tag=lh>
Apple Computer has stopped selling the 667MHz Power Mac G4, possibly making room for new dual-processor computers later this month.

Apple Launches New CompUSA Initiative (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=5474>
Nine stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and nine stores in the SF Bay area will have one employee spending 40 hours a week at each location helping to sell Apple product, ensure that Apple's store-within-a-stores are well maintained, and train CompUSA employees in Apple technologies.

== AppleSurf (Opinions) ===============

Metatarsal Distress (MacEdition)
<http://www.macedition.com/muse/muse_20010413.shtml>
They could have gained a copious amount of good ink for proactively helping Macintosh owners improve their machines' stability and usability by announcing this change and preventing users from unknowingly disabling their machines.

== The Wintel Empire (Top Stories) ===============

Windows XP Will Support USB 2.0, Somehow (EE Times)
<http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20010412S0047>
Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation operating system will be limited in its support of USB 2.0 when the initial release hits the shelves later this year. But Windows XP will find a way to support the bus standard, the software giant said this week.

== The Wintel Empire (News) ===============

Windows XP Will Support USB 2.0, Somehow (EE Times)
<http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20010412S0047>
Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation operating system will be limited in its support of USB 2.0 when the initial release hits the shelves later this year. But Windows XP will find a way to support the bus standard, the software giant said this week.