Daily Archives: February 29, 2004

Apple

SF: Grand Opening

Apple opened another retail store yesterday (Saturday the 28th)

If I can count right.. its the 76th store opened… and the first one in San Francisco. Its another flagship store. Which means its multiple stories, has the cool glass staircase, a comfy theatre, and about a bazillion people in line for the opening.

Apple has posted a gallery from the opening, you can see it here.

Something new at this opening, was allowing people to purchase ‘surprise bags’ for $249. Each of which contained anywhere from $600 to $1000 worth of Apple and Non-Apple goodies (I haven’t seen a full list, and not of all them contained the same thing apparently) But, it would be interesting to see if they sold out of the bags…

Just Stuff

Clone Wars: Season 2

Its almost time…

The second and final season of Clone Wars animated shows (they fill in some of the story between Episodes II and III) is going to begin airing on Cartoon Network on March 26th… Cartoon Network is now starting to run some commercials for it, although they don’t have any up on their website yet. If you really want to see it… follow this link …(Quicktime required)

Just Stuff

Star Wars on DVD

So, according to the rumor sites (you knew there were Star Wars rumor sites didn’t you?)

It appears the packaging for the DVD release of the original Trilogy (Episode 4,5, and 6) this September. Go here (some French site) for a peek at them..

At first glance, my preference is going to be the Jedi vs Darkside packaging…. (everyone make note of that, in case you’re planning on buying it for me). Although, the Imperial Collection would probably be my second choice.

Tech

Even Microsoft loves the G5

Everyone knows its one of (if not the) fastest, most powerful chips out there.

And even M$ wants in on the action… rumors indicate that M$ is now shipping the Xbox2 SDK… which just happens to be a PowerMac G5 dual processor system….and the Xbox2 is supposed to also contain at least one variant of the G5 chip… so if M$ is truly going to run the Xbox on a PowerPC chip (remember, Nintendo runs the game cube on a version of the PowerPC G3).. I wonder if it would make it easier for game developers to port their xbox games over to the Mac?