Apple computer canada

MARKHAM, Ont. -- Apple Canada announced an upgrade to its Titanium PowerBook G4 notebook line with PowerPC G4 processors running at up to 1 GHz, company officials said.

The notebook features a slot-loading SuperDrive for reading and burning both CDs and DVDs, a mobile graphics processor, the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, and integrated 802.11 wireless networking, all in a one-in. thick, 5.4 lb. Titanium case with a widescreen 15.2-in. (diagonal) display.

The new PowerBook line pricing begins at $3,699. According to the company, the PowerBook G4 line offers fast PowerPC G4 processors running up to 1GHz with Velocity Engine and 1MB of performance-boosting Level 3 cache.

Combined with Apple's UNIX-based Mac OS X version 10.2 Jaguar, the new PowerBook G4 runs professional applications including Adobe Photoshop up to 44 per cent faster than a 2.2 GHz Pentium 4-based notebook, officials said. The unit now offers more 3-D graphics performance with the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics processor featuring up to 64MB of dedicated Double Data Rate (DDR) video SDRAM and capabilities such as programmable pixel and vertex shading for lighting and shadow effects, photo-realistic 3D performance and cinematic-quality video. The PowerBook G4 also offers fast Ultra ATA/66 hard drives up to 60GB and support for up to 1GB of memory. Pre-installed on every PowerBook G4, Apple's Mac OS X Jaguar offers more than 150 new features including a new mail application designed to eliminate junk mail, iChat AIM-compatible instant messenger, a system-wide Address Book, Inkwell handwriting recognition and QuickTime 6 with MPEG-4.

Contact: www.apple.ca