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Extend wireless range and signal strength on your iMac G5

58565418 22c5f50805 m Extend wireless range and signal strength on your iMac G5Apple iMac G5 users can now connect to wireless networks that were previously out of range, or where connections were made but the data rate was just too slow to be of any use. The QuickerTek iMac G5 Transceiver is not much larger than a antenna, clips temporarily onto the iMac case and connects to the new AirPort card inside the iMac G5.

The QuickerTek iMac G5 Transceiver offers 500 milliwatts of RF power. By comparison, iMacs tend to have average RF power of little more than 30 milliwatts. The challenge to the iMac G5s own antenna comes from the desktop computer’s internal metal shield that limits the effectiveness of the built-in wireless. The QuickerTek gets outside this problem by, well, getting outside the shield.

At only USD$200, the iMac G5 Transceiver is available from QuickerTek dealers. And, like most QuickerTek products, it’s backed with a one-year warranty on parts and labor.

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The Ratio of Things to Come? Apple 16×9 displays on the way?

We’re not sure if we’re the only ones that noticed this, but looking at one of the screenshots on Apple’s site showing off the features of Tiger’s Widgets may give a hint of a new Apple Display line.

10357111 afec855f91 The Ratio of Things to Come? Apple 16x9 displays on the way?

The screenshot above specs out to be about 1280×720, or the mystical proportion of 16:9, otherwise known as High Defininition. The interesting thing is that NONE of Apple’s current displays are 16-by-9. The PowerBooks, iMacs, and Cinema Displays are 16:10, while the iBook remains 4:3. As far as we can remember, Apple has always used screenshots that match the aspect ratio of their current products.

Does this forbode the announcement of a new Apple display, to complement the new HD features of Apple’s video editing tools? Or is it just a fluke caused by a webmaster working on a non-Apple HD monitor? Stay tuned, true believer!

Note:Here’s the URL the image came from.

ZDNet asks, ”Will Mac Mini spur petite-PC revolution?”

In a ZDNet article posted this morning, reporter John G. Spooner poses the question to which anyone who has followed Macs has already subconsciously asked and answered themselves weeks ago: Will the Mac mini inspire PC copycats? The answer is clear if you look at the computer marketplace’s track record since Apple introduced the original iMac back in the late 90′s–the PC market is bound to copy.

I’m not saying everything that Apple does is golden and everything that the PC market produces is a copy of greater things for Mac. No. But, were their copycat iMacs? iPods? Powerbooks? iBooks? Is a Mac mini copy to be expected? Well, DUH!

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