Boosting performance while lowering the price of its popular desktop for home and school, Apple announced an entirely new eMac line offering up to a 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processor, a faster 4x SuperDrive(TM), high performance ATI Radeon 7500 graphics, up to 80GB hard drives and internal support for AirPort(R) Extreme wireless networking. Featuring a stunning 17-inch flat CRT and a remarkably compact all-in-one design that is even less deep than the original iMac, the most affordable PowerPC G4 system now starts at just $799 (US)

Avaible only through Software Update for the moment, the 10.2.6 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, services and technologies: Address Book, Graphics, Printing, OpenGL, and PC Card and USB hub device compatibility.

An update for AudioTools Pro, bringing it to version 4.2. AudioTools Pro is a calculation utility designed for music production environments. The update features several enhancements including OS X support and network operation.

It's a full success for Apple. In a May 5th message, Apple announced that more than a million of titles have been sold on the iTunes music store (only available in US for the moment), after one week only, when the Cupertino Firm had expected to get this result after a month.

Little problem : on the 200,000 available tittles, half has already been downloaded so Apple announces that 3,200 new tittles will be on line since May 6th.

Other good news : the new version of the iTunes software has been downloaded more than a million times in less than a week and there have been more than 110 000 orders of the new iPod during its first launching week !

And in the end, our big friend "the rumour" announces that the 10.2.6 Os will be available in mid-May...

Since the present Digidesign core audio driver is incompatible with iTunes4, Digidesign has announced a new version (1.2) available this week. For the record: Digidesign engineers claim to have received iTunes 4 "like everyone else", on 28th April....