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**DealBITS Drawing for browseback Still Open** -- As you may or
  may not have noticed, we had a spot of trouble with our server
  last week. Much hair was lost, but more important, most DealBITS
  entries from Monday and Tuesday and early Wednesday morning
  were also lost. Everything should be working properly again
  now, so if you entered DealBITS to win one of three copies
  of SmileOnMyMac's Web history utility browseback and did not
  receive an email confirmation of your entry, please enter
  again at the link below. Don't worry about possible duplicates;
  my system will find and eliminate them. My apologies for the
  inconvenience; the problem was quite subtle and, annoyingly,
  I couldn't personally reproduce it, which made troubleshooting
  more difficult. Wet noodle self-flagellation will now commence.
  [ACE]

<http://www.tidbits.com/dealbits/browseback/>


**20-inch iMac G5 Drops $200, 17-inch Gone** -- Now we know why
  Apple continues to sell the iMac G5 after debuting the iMac
  Intel Core Duo model at Macworld Expo last month: to clear out
  inventory. Apple has stopped selling the 17-inch iMac G5 and
  dropped the price of its remaining stock of 20-inch iMac G5
  models by $200 to $1,500. The Intel-based iMacs sell for
  $1,300 and $1,700, depending on whether you want the 17-inch
  or 20-inch model.

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060202/tc_cmp/178600318>

  Early testing by Macworld shows that for most purposes, the Intel
  iMac is slightly but noticeably faster for native applications;
  system boot time and application launches happen much more
  quickly. The G5 won't become obsolete: universal binaries will
  be developed for years to come, so if you were on the fence on
  an iMac or just need a mid-range desktop that runs non-universal
  software (such as Adobe Photoshop, for example), this might be
  the time to buy. [GF]

<http://www.macworld.com/2006/02/firstlooks/imacbench2/>



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