The cover of the upcoming issue of Newsweek, dated July 26, 2004, will apparently feature Steve Jobs holding an updated, previously rumored iPod with this text:
Steve Jobs and The Must-Have Music Player Everyone Is Talking About iPod, Therefore i Am
The new iPod shows incorporation of the iPod Mini's pushbutton scrollwheel design, removing the 3G iPod's row of 4 control buttons above the wheel. Size seems comparable to 3G models, while price is expected to decrease.
The cover can be seen at the MSNBC Newsweek site in medium and large sizes.
The issue should be shipping Sunday, on newstands Monday, and received by subscribers Tuesday. Update: William Crawford provides a link to the full Newsweek article.
Benchmarks for the new MacBook Neo surfaced today, and unsurprisingly, CPU performance is almost identical to the iPhone 16 Pro. The MacBook Neo uses the same 6-core A18 Pro chip that was first introduced in the iPhone 16 Pro, but it has one fewer GPU core.
The MacBook Neo earned a single-core score of 3461 and a multi-core score of 8668, along with a Metal score of 31286.
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Apple this week unveiled seven products, ranging from the iPhone 17e to the MacBook Neo, but new Apple TV and HomePod mini models were not among them.
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In September, ...
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