Apple Newbie

Apple’s filing for an integrated horizontal axis swiveling webcam gives us an insight into what Apple might add to their desktop and notebook lines.

AppleInsider says sources have reported sightings of iMac prototypes that feature a webcam. A built in webcam would be useful in this day where VOIP is getting hotter and hotter. With video talk getting more popular with 3G handphones, it’s only logical that with broadband connections, video phone calls using PC would be in demand. An iMac with a built-in iSight camera is logical and would definitely sell, since iChat AV 3.0 is one of the main features of Tiger.

With a little Photoshop magic, the camera equipped iMac might look like this…

The lense kind of spoils the clean look of the iMac so I don’t now how Apple’s designers (with far far more creative capability than me) would decide to integrate it. Also, I doubt the iMac’s webcam would have swivel capability as on a desktop there would not be much use for such a feature. But if they did… I wonder how they would implement it?

Wouldn’t it be great if it was true?

Think Secret says the updated Mac Mini systems are already on the way to the retailers. Not sure when Malaysia will get these new ones.

So what are in the new Mac Mini line? The low-end Mac Mini will get a 1.33GHz G4 instead of the previous 1.25GHz one. The high-end Mac Mini will get a bump up to 1.5GHz from 1.42Ghz. Hard drives will be upgraded to 5400rpm. This is what particularly interests me. Would speed up the swap trashing and application loading.

The SuperDrive high-end model will get it’s 4 speed SuperDrive bumped up to a 8 speed model capable of writing dual-layer discs.

Prices are expected to remain the same.