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Apple's New Digital Device

Wednesday October 17, 2001 2:52 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Mike Ryder wrote in to tell us of a Yahoo News article describing "the
unveiling of a breakthrough digital device," by Apple on Oct. 23. And according to Apple, "hint: it's not a Mac."
Very interesting. Sources near the company claim it's likely a digital music device. Portable MP3 player? Component CD-RW / MP3 player?


Quite the intriguing report.

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135 months ago
please be a Newton :)

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135 months ago
According to uk2.net and a whois / trace-root search. Apple has re-registered newton.com as of the 16th of October.

Curious!

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135 months ago
Wow. That would be INSANE if they came out with a new Newton. Christ. But, I dare not let myself get hopeful for such a device. I would throw my iPAQ on eBay so fast it would make your head swim, if a new Newton was released.


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135 months ago
Did http://www.newton.com always point to http://www.apple.com?
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135 months ago
yep, newton.com always pointed to Apple - every since Newton was killed.

... and Apple never let Newton.com expire... they've held onto it. They probably just reregistered it because it was expiring. But... who knows.

I have my doubts they would use the Newton name again...

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135 months ago
May it be that this GigaWire technology could like the "New Digital Device" to your mac???

Thanks,

Guy

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135 months ago
My guess is it's an airport-enabled MP3 player that looks like an audio component.
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135 months ago
Can you imagine me with a Newton? in place of carry the Pismo every where, even the TiBook still too heavy. A Newton with a firewire port would be long way too nice.
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135 months ago
right... a FireWire Newton
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135 months ago
It is a music device, but not what you think! God its so AWESOME!

Its WAY better than any MP3 player because it plays ANY QUICKTIME FILE FORMAT!

It looks like a TiBook/iBook (squared, clean lines, muted tones, metallic) only like small-ish. It runs on batteries or bus powered (yes, bus powered when plugged into a Mac).

When plugged in it mounts like a drive, drag 'n' drop to from it (on OS X only, 10.1 includes secret support for it, read the release notes they mention it). Unplug it, its standalone. RCA audio out stereo, phono plug stereo out, small LCD screen some controls to see file names and play/stop/skip features.

CRAP someone's coming! EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED. DELL CANT TOUCH THIS!

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