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I'll quote it below in full and hold his name and e-mail address. æ Sent: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 From: [withheld] Subject: GCC on By Tom Yager Jun 24, 2003 3 mins Technology Industry Apple, please don’t mess with SPEC In his keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the Power Mac G5 is the world's fastest PC. He used SPEC (System Performance Evaluation Corporation) benchmark results to support that claim. Having some credentials in that area, I pulled the deta By Tom Yager Jun 24, 2003 2 mins Technology Industry Epiphany Almost two months ago, I was thinking about the current state of videoconferencing on the desktop. Today, I downloaded iChatAV beta. The seamless nature of the VC features in iChatAV was actually scary. As soon as a friend with a FireWire camera sent By Paul Venezia Jun 24, 2003 3 mins Christmas Morning It's about 3pm EST, noon PST, and Santa Jobs is still talking. 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