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Here you will find the update that is supposed to correct the performance problems DP 4 has had, specially on mono processor machines.

Steve Jobs started the long awaited World Wide Developer Conference with a Keynote. He showed:

- Panther, the next OSX (10.3). Panther will cost $129 and will be available before year's end.

- iSight, a new firewire webCam at $149

- a few iApps update (iChat brings Video, Mail is enhanced, etc...).

- the G5: The rumors was true! The new macs feature 64 bit processors up to 2GHz, 1GHz front-side bus, 400 MHz 128-bit DDR memory, AGP 8X Pro Graphics, 133 MHz PCI-X slots, Serial ATA, connects to HyperTransport interconnect. memory up to 8GB (!!!), an all aluminum enclosure (twice quieter than previous G4), GeFore FX5200 Ultra in the low-end, SuperDrive in all.

Three Models: 1.6GHz, 80GB HD, 256GB RAM, $1999: 1.8GHZ, 160GB HD, 512GB RAM, $2399; dual 2GHz, 160GB HD, 512MB RAM, $ ...