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Apple is now accepting iPad apps for a “grand opening” of the iPad App Store, according to an email just sent to registered developers.
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Security Expert: “Mac OS X Is Safer, But Less Secure”

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Tech site H-Online has an interesting story today, quoting security expert Charlie Miller about his forthcoming talk at the CanSecWest conference next week.
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Apple Devotes Entire Home Page To Jerome York Obituary

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Coming Soon: Steve Jobs, the Sitcom

Fake Steve creator Dan Lyons just signed a deal to bring Steve Jobs to another small screen near you.
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Cult of Mac Contest: Name Mystery Apple Object, Win T-shirt

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The first in a series of five t-shirt giveaways, correctly name this mystery Apple item and you could win a T-shirt.

Not just any T-shirt: choose from the Apple-inspired designs at might tees, which include the I Love Lisa we wrote about, a retro-style logo and Steve Jobs in typeface.

The tees are made with water-based eco inks screen printed on high quality tri-blend shirts (part organic cotton, part recycled rayon and polyester) and a $28-$36 value.

We’ll chose a winner at random from correct answers — please name object and model in the comments.
Contest ends midnight, October 14.

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164 comments

    iBook ?

    YAY! First to comment! It’s a MacBook.

    To be more specific, it’s the side of a MacBook. The right side contains the vents, and the left side contains the monitor port. Then there’s the plastic bumper barely visible to the right

    It’s an Apple iBook G4

    Looks like an iBook G3 500 or later to me.

    its a powerbook g4? :)

    I believe it’s a Mac iBook.

    Ibook G4..

    It’s the left side of a white iBook :)

    How do i really participate in this contest?? i see no option to answer this contest question??

    The side of a white iBook?

    That’s my G3 iBook. Display port, headphone jack, and exhaust fan ports.

    G3 iBook. Anything more specific needed?

    It’s a Titanium laptop

    I’m going to have to go with 12” iBook G3, 500mhz.

    it’s an early ibook, maybe late 2001 model.

    G3 iBook.

    That would be the iBook G3, the first white model with the 12″ screen

    -max

    modded ibook g4?

    iBook late 2001

    Apple iBook G4/1.0 12-Inch (Early 2004 – Op) Specs (M9426LL/A)

    FTW…

    iBook G3

    Its a laptop, iBook actually. It would be one of the final iBook body styles, so either a G3 or G4 (looks more like a G3 to me).

    It’s an iBook G3 w/ dual USB

    Boring T-Shirts -.-

    It’s an iBook dual USB. The first model that came with dual USB. So it would be a G3 600MHz possibly.

    The above comment is correct. This is an ibook G3. I’d guess it has a whopping 800 mhz processor and a beefy 256 MB of RAM.

    That would be an iBook G3!

    I’d say it’s an iBook G4…

    It’s an Apple iBook G3 (Laptop)

    It’s a 500 or 600Mhz iBook G3.

    Okay, my guess is an iBook G4. I’m probably off though.

    12″ iBook G3, dual USB circa 2003ish?

    Apple iBook G3

    Apple iBook G4

    definitely 12″ iBook G3 500 MHz… Display port and silver body give it away. It’s not a 700 MHz because those were all white bodies.

    It’s a Macbook

    it’s an Apple iBook G3 900 (2003) (we see the left side) whit video (i think it’s DVI) and audio port. HO! I almost forgot we see the little reset button at the top of the audio output !

    cheers

    iBook G3 but I’m hardly the first to say

    iBook G3

    iBook G3

    It’s an iBook G3 14″ – the 14″ had the reset button next to the headphone jack.

    An early model iBook G4 the thing in the middle is a reset button to reset the PMU. I’m assuming that what is being asked.

    It’s one of 3
    iBook (Dual USB)
    iBook (Late 2001) or
    iBook (14.1 LCD)

    They were the models that had the iBook Power Management Unit (PMU) button near the headphone jack

    Typo meant to say iBook G3 not G4.

    It’s a white iBook G3. Because of that cute little reset button, it has to be either the iBook (Dual USB), iBook (Late 2001) or iBook (14.1 LCD).

    It’s an iBook!

    iBook g3

    iBook G3

    ibook 3G

    Ha! iBook G3

    iBook G3 for reals!

    iBook G3!

    First series of Ice White iBook G3 (Dual USB, Late 2001 and iBook 14.1 LCD) were the only ones that had the reset above the audio port like that. Previously, on the original ibook it was located at the base of the display behind the power button. It was later gotten rid of entirely with the command + option + p + r keyboard reset.

    iBook G3

    iBook G3

    I think its a white ibook g4

    Ibook g3 500mhz.

    white ibook g3

    No, wait. I think it’s a G3; G4 wasn’t as shiny.

    iBook G3

    Is it a combine harvester ????

    I’m pretty sure that’s an Apple II.

    white iBook G3

    It looks like me last generation G4 iBook’s left side vent, headphone jack and monitor output.

    iBook (either dual USB, Late 2001 or the 14.1 LCD)

    White iBook G3

    white iBook G3

    That is 12″ iBook G3. Apple produced two very similar models.

    The key distinguishing feature is the distance from the vent slots to the bottom rubber pad on the lower-left side of the image. If the pic was cropped any more and the pad not shown, it would be impossible to distinguish from several larger iBook models introduced later.

    It’s a white Apple iBook G4

    It is the very first iBook G3

    WHite iBook G3

    It’s a Sinclair QL with a ZX microdrive attachment!

    It is, mystery_apple.jpg

    Its a White iBook G3

    I hereby name it, Fred.

    Its a 12″ iBook G3/500 (Dual USB Model).

    its an ibook g3

    It is the left side of an iBook G3. Most likely one of the first, with a 12″ screen.

    iBook G3 500 mHz

    White iBook G3 500, you can see the reset button which only the first white iBook had

    It is the iBook G3 (“Dual USB”).

     iBook G3 12″

    iBook G3. Good old computer.

    Early “dual usb” iBook G3. Probably 500Mhz from early 2001. The case is still translucent, the video output is VGA and there is a reset button.

    Forgot to mention that it is 12″ if that is relevant to this contest.

    An iBook G3 (12″)

    ibook g4, my first mac

    It’s gotta be an iBook G3.

    Powerbook4,1 M7698LL/1

     ibook g4

    iBook G3
    VGA and composite video out

    It’s an Ibook G3 (obviously white)

    iBook G3!

    Ibook G3 Dual USB

    It’s an iBook G3 dual USB

    It either an iBook (Dual USB), iBook (Late 2001) or an iBook (14.1 LCD) and I’m not telling why, LOL.

    iBook g3

    ibook g3 (o_O)

    G3 iBook 500MHZ 12Inch

    G3 ibook with all it’s white plastic loveliness!

    500 MHz iBook G3

    That’s an iBook G4.

    Apple iBook G3

    It’s an Apple iBook G4. It’s the silver chassis that gives it away.

    TiBook Or PowerBook G4.

    Apple White iBook G3 14 inch.

    I would have to say that’s an Apple laptop…. White iBook G3

    iBook G3

    iBook G4! (left side)

    a white ibook

    ibook g3 500mhz

    ibook g3

    looks like a
    Apple iBook G3 800mhz?

    ibook g3

    First white iBook G3

    iBook G3, viewed from the left…

    It’s OBVIOUSLY a 2006-2007 Ford Pinto Carburator control module, you idiots!

    Apple iBook G3

    Apple iBook G3. That shirt is mine

    Apple iBook G4 White Left Side!

    That’s and  iBook. It isn’t a MacBook, I’m using one and I don’t see this anywhere on it!

    Its the anode side of the Phillips X-ray tube I use at work. How did you get it to clean up like that? After I over-exposed that 97 year old last week with 800 Mas during a routine pelvic exam, I thought that thing was perma-burnt!!

    probably been guessed already, but its an ibook g3 second gen “dual usb” circa 2001. Almost bought one from a guy for 90 bucks, but went with a used DS lite instead…

    iBook G3 (2. Generation (first white G3))
    * RAM: 384 MB
    * CPU: 900 MhZ G3
    * OS: Mac OS X 10.4.3 and Mac OS 9.2.2
    * VRAM: 32 MB
    * Screen size: 14.1 inches

    Definitely an iBook G3 “dual usb”/Late 2001/14.1 LCD.

    Apple KBase article support.apple.com/ kb/HT1431 identifies these computers;
    iBook (Dual USB), iBook (Late 2001) and iBook (14.1 LCD), as the ones that have a dedicated PMU reset buttons. the picture shows the side of an iBook with a PMU reset button so it has to be an iBook (Dual USB), an iBook (Late 2001) or an iBook (14.1 LCD).

    It’s a Apple iBook G3 Dual-USB with the physical reset switch that will be clocked at less than 800MHz on it’s G3 PPC processor and 12″ screen.

    iBook G3. I remember mine fondly.

    Cheese cake

    iBook G3 – could be dual USB

    2nd generation iBook G3 2001-2003 (“Dual USB”) 12.1″

    iBook dual USB

    iBook G3, “Opaque”. Circa 2002

    It is the first 14.1″ iBook (with a 600MHz G3) – aka iBook (14.1 LCD)

    updated – it is the left front side of the first 14.1″ iBook (with a 600MHz G3) – aka iBook (14.1 LCD)

    This is an iBook (Dual USB), iBook (Late 2001), and iBook (14.1 LCD) computer.

    ITS AN IPOD TOUCH!!!!!!!!!!

    It’s an iBook G3.

    Its a blackberry!

    it’s an old iBook g3?

    It’s a iBook G4 (Mid 2005)

    Apple iBook (I have had a few of these apart to replace hard drives)

    Its a iBook G4 White. My current mac laptop. Best money I ever spent by the way.

    Just to be clear from my previous post this is a Apple G3 iBook (Dual USB), iBook (Late 2001), and iBook (14.1 LCD) computer.

    so, who is the winner ?

    iBook G4

    ‘Tis a iBook for sure. Either a Dual USB running 500 MHz, a Late 2001 running either 500 MHz or 600 MHz, or a 14.1 LCD running 600 MHz. Alas when I got my first iBook it was a 16 VRAM and they did away with the reset button starting with that model.

    Its an iBook G4

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