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Mention Mid-Atlantic Computer Solutions to a friend and get a 1 hour discount on your next service visit. Make sure to tell them to mention your name! If they agree to an inital (no charge) visit with MACS, we'll give you the discount! |
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Lease Your New Power Mac G5
AFS Commercial Credit has provided innovative financing solutions to thousands of businesses. Whether you need short- or longer-term financing, they'll tailor a lease just for you. With AFS Commercial Credit, you can combine hardware, software, services, and non-Apple products to meet your technology plan, with a payment that meets your budget.
Come in today to explore your options. |
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Burn a CD Right From Your Finder Window
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| If you've loaded a blank CD (or a DVD) into your Mac, you'll see it appear in the Sidebar of any open Finder window. You'll also notice a little Burn button appears to the right of the blank CD's name (which is "untitled CD" by default). So now, when you're ready to burn that disc (maybe you're using this disc to back up some files), you can simply press the tiny Burn button that appears right within the Sidebar. Burning doesn't get much more convenient than that. |
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MACS Updates
Welcome to another addition of Necessary News. This newsletter brings a new phone number, more growth and an out-of-office update.
If you haven't yet updated your address books, our new number is 703.236.5800. The old number will be going away "real soon now," so please update your records.
We would like to welcome yet another new addition to our ever-expanding team. Craig Kabis comes to us from the New York City area with extensive server experience as well as strength in all other areas of Macintosh hardware and software. Taking on a full time position, Craig has enabled us to see the future of MACS, and it is good. Craig can be reached at ckabis@4macsolutions.com or on 703.236.5800 x 7.
On a different note, Will O'Neal will be out of the office and unavailable from November 8th-18th. But never fear, our trusty Project Manager Jay Guilaran will be filling in, responding to emails, scheduling and any other needs.
Coming soon... a new website and new extention numbers as our phone system will be growing as well! |
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Apple Enhances PowerBooks |
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Now Featuring Higher-Resolution Displays, Longer Battery Life
New introductions make the PowerBook G4 line of notebook computers even more desirable for business and creative professionals with higher-resolution displays and up to one hour more battery life on the 15- and 17-inch models.* In addition, every new PowerBook now includes a DVD burning SuperDrive with prices starting at just $1,499.
The new higher-resolution PowerBooks provide significantly more screen real estate and include the 17-inch PowerBook with a 1680-by-1050 pixel resolution-36 percent more than the previous generation-and the 15-inch PowerBook with a 1440-by-960 pixel resolution-26 percent more than the previous generation. Ideal for business and creative professionals, the new 15- and 17-inch PowerBooks make reading text and viewing images even easier with brighter displays-up to 46 percent brighter on the 17-inch model. The 15- and 17-inch PowerBooks also provide up to an additional hour of battery life to get even more work done while on the road.
The PowerBook line includes three models: the 1.5 GHz 12-inch PowerBook with an 8X SuperDrive and the new 1.67 GHz 15- and 17-inch PowerBooks with an 8X SuperDrive with double-layer support. Both the 15- and 17-inch PowerBooks include ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics with 128MB DDR dedicated video memory and now feature built-in Dual Link support to drive Apple's groundbreaking 30-inch Cinema HD Display as an external monitor, providing more than four million pixels of additional workspace.
Every PowerBook includes built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), integrated AirPort Extreme 54 Mbps 802.11g WiFi wireless networking**, a scrolling TrackPad and Apple's Sudden Motion Sensor technology. Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger," the fifth major release of the world's most advanced operating system and iLife '05, Apple's award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, are included with every PowerBook.
*Battery life depends on configuration and use. **Actual speed will vary based on range from the base station, environmental conditions and other factors.
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Apple Reveals New Power Mac G5 Family |
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New Line Features Quad-Core Processing, PCI Express & Workstation Graphics
Apple has unveiled its new Power Mac G5 desktop line featuring the Power Mac G5 Quad, providing quad-core processing with two 2.5 GHz dual-core PowerPC G5 processors. All Power Mac G5 models now feature dual-core processors, a new PCI Express architecture and higher performance graphics options including NVIDIA's Quadro FX 4500, bringing the industry standard for workstation graphics to the Mac.
With two 2.5 GHz dual-core processors, each with 1MB of L2 cache, the Power Mac G5 Quad delivers breakthrough performance on applications used extensively by creative professionals and scientists.
The Power Mac G5 line offers leading-edge expansion with industry standard PCI Express architecture, providing four expansion slots to support high-performance video and audio devices and multiple standard graphics cards to drive an array of up to eight displays. The Power Mac G5 delivers up to 16GB of 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM and now features two Gigabit Ethernet ports-ideal for customers working in an Xsan environment. Providing industry-leading connectivity and high-performance I/O, every Power Mac G5 also includes one FireWire 800 port, two FireWire 400 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 1.1 ports, optical and digital audio input and output, and built-in support for AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. The new Power Mac G5 line also includes Apple's next generation mouse, Mighty Mouse, featuring up to four programmable buttons and an ingenious Scroll Ball that lets users scroll in any direction-vertically, horizontally and even diagonally.
The new Power Mac G5 comes standard with either the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE with 128MB of video memory or the NVIDIA GeForce 6660 with 256MB of video memory, both provide support for dual-displays and Apple's breakthrough 30-inch Cinema HD Display, now priced at $2,499. The NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT with 256MB of video memory and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 with 512MB of video memory are both available as build-to-order options. The Quadro FX 4500 is ideal for demanding animation, special effects and scientific visualization applications such as Alias' Maya and DeLano Research's PyMol. The Quadro FX 4500 can drive up to two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays and includes a stereo 3D port to connect goggles for stereo-in-a-window applications.
The 2.0 GHz and 2.3 GHz Power Mac G5 Dual are available now and the 2.5 GHz Power Mac G5 Quad will be available in early November. Starting at just $1,999 there is a Power Mac G5 perfect for your needs. Call or come in and let us configure yours today. |
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Tiger Up-close: Automator |
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 Automator makes it easy to accomplish all of your time-consuming, repetitive manual tasks quickly, efficiently, and effortlessly with Automator workflows. It's simple to create custom workflows just by dragging items, pointing, and clicking. Perform the task once or many times using an Automator workflow.
Easy-to-understand application actions are the building blocks, so you don't have to write any code-no technical expertise required. Actions can be dragged into your Automator workflow. Each action has all of the options and settings you need; you don't have to work hard to figure out how to make it work. You can even incorporate Spotlight searching into workflows to identify items automatically.
Tiger includes a number of built-in actions, and developers can add actions for their applications. Workflows are reusable-you can save them to use later or share with friends and colleagues. Best of all, they give you access to some of the most powerful technologies in Mac OS X without requiring you to write any code. |
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