It's not as if we haven't heard the rumors superstructure over the last few months, but Apple's long-standing iMac line is seeing its first real update since the Fall of last year on this fine morning. As predicted, the refreshed family now contains Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 processor options, not to mention discrete ATI Radeon HD GPU options, IPS panels, an SD slot that understands the complexities of SDXC and an SSD option on the 27-inch machine. For some reason, Apple's not throwing in its new Magic Trackpad with any iMac; instead, it'll be a $69 accessory. One swank addition to this line, however, is the ability to order your new all-in-one with both an HDD and an SSD on the 27-inch model. Of course, it'll cost you dearly (a 1TB HDD plus a 256GB SSD is a $750 CTO option, while the 2TB HDD in that combo makes it a $900 option), but at least there's room inside for DIY adds. Here's a look at the utilizable configurations, with last Fall's lineup saved here for reference:

• The low-end $1,199 unit boasts a 21.5-inch display (1,920 x 1,080), a 3.06GHz Core i3 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, ATI's Radeon HD 4670 GPU (256M and a 500GB hard drive. There's also an 8x slot-loading SuperDrive with dual-layer support, Mini DisplayPort, AirPort Extreme 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, iSight webcam, gigabit Ethernet, a foursome of USB 2.0 sockets, a single FireWire 800 port and a bundled field ring up Apple Keyboard and Magic Mouse.


• There's a new $1,499 21.5-inch model that includes a 3.20GHz Core i3, ATI Radeon HD 5670 GPU (512M, a 1TB hard drive and 4GB of DDR3 memory (along with the usual suspects be be featured above).


• The $1,699 model is a 27-incher with a 2,560 x 1,440 LED-backlit display, 3.20GHz Core i3 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, ATI's Radeon HD 5670 (512M, a 1TB hard drive and voluntary
  
  
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• The flagship $1,999 flavor (27-inch) packs a 2.8GHz quad-core Core i5 with 8MB of shared L3 cache, 4GB of DDR3 memory, ATI's Radeon HD 5750 GPU (1G, a 1TB hard drive and feasible CTO options that include a 2.93GHz Core i7 CPU, 2TB hard drive, 256GB SSD and up to 16GB of memory.

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This is an incredibly well-rounded and clever double podcast. It is so well-rounded and wise that it looks like it might turn into a triple podcast and is, quite frankly, the best podcast the Engadget Podcasters have ever seen.



Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller

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00:02:33 - Panasonic's new Lumix lineup: LX5, FZ40, FZ100, FX700, and TS10 all official

00:06:52 - Canon third world nation smaller DSLRs to compete with mirrorless cameras?

00:07:00 - Nikon contraception "new concept" mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras with enhanced video modes

00:21:12 - New Xbox 360 4GB ships August 3rd for $199, Kinect standalone priced at $149, bundle coming this holiday for $299

00:30:48 - webOS 2.0 coming 'later this year,' says HP's Rubinstein

00:30:58 - HP Slate no longer a user product, will arrive for effort this fall

00:31:24 - HP files for 'PalmPad' label -- a webOS tablet, perhaps?

00:31:35 - HP Slate 500 with Windows 7 surfaces on HP's site

00:31:54 - HP confirms that Slate is still kicking, 'next steps' being determined

00:41:52 - HP CEO: Palm could end up a 'sub-brand' of the company

00:46:41 - Samsung Galaxy S review shootout: Captivate for AT&T and Vibrant for T-Mobile

00:48:14 - Dell Streak review redux: hostility from the New World

00:48:41 - Nexus One is sold out in Google's store -- forever

00:56:32 - Motorola mini Droid slider caught by Mr. Blurrycam

00:59:07 - Droid 2 being prepared for launch, set to arrive August 23rd?

01:00:29 - Apple posts record $3.25b profit in first full quarter of iPad sales, says more 'amazing products' coming this year

01:00:48 - Apple begins iPhone 4 Case Program: apply for your free case or Bumper now

01:01:26 - Apple delays white iPhone a second time, won't ship until 'later this year'

01:03:08 - Apple starts refunding Bumper purchases automagically

01:07:45 - AT&T announces 26 percent earnings growth for Q2, $4b profit

01:16:28 - Droid X users gobbling up 5x the data of other Verizon smartphones

01:18:00 - Microsoft reports $4.5b in profit, a record $16.04b in revenue

01:18:30 - Steve Ballmer feeling thrust at Microsoft for stagnating share price?

01:18:48 - Kin listed as at least $240 million writeoff in Microsoft earnings report

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A recent report in the New York Times details a myriad issues that led up to the eventual explosion that started the mess known as the "BP oil spill," but aside from obvious mishandling of warnings and red flags, one lone issue was troubling those working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig long before April 20th. Mike Williams, the rig's chief corporeal laptop* chips technician, has come forward with a multitude of icky details on every side the laxity that was involute in the catastrophe, with the one most germane to our parley being the following: "For months, the now cap machine* system had been locking up, producing what the crew called the Blue Screen of Death." Williams continued, noting that "it would just turn blue," with "no data coming through." Of course, it's not as if BSODs are totally uncommon out in the working world -- Microsoft's Windows powers the vast majority of systems that corporations rely on daily -- but this one rubs just a wee bit differently. Hit the source link for the full spill.

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"http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js">Well, there's nothing like masking bad news with good news, right Apple? Just moments after quietly hype* that the white iPhone 4 is now chosen to ship formerly between tomorrow and your New Year's Eve party, the company has also fired up its iPhone 4 Case Program. Just as Jobs goshen last week at an compulsion press event, this program will ensure that anyone who purchases an iPhone 4 prior to September 30th will be able to receive an iPhone 4 Bumper or select third-party case from the company at no charge. 'Course, you need to be located in a country or territory that Apple absolutely ships to, but if that's all squared away, feel free to hit up the App Store to crunch numbers* the iPhone 4 Case Program app. Once there, you'll need to sign into your iTunes Store account, select your Bumper or case and wait oh-so-patiently (read: "3 to 5 weeks"). Better hurry -- wouldn't want the servers to get overloaded, now would we?



Oh, and if you happened to have already purchased a Bumper, the company should be hitting your credit card with a full refund (including any applicable taxes and shipping) momentarily. As for the case / Bumper choices? Every single option is in hand in any color you like... so long as it's black, of course. There's a black Apple Bumper option, an Incase Snap Case, Belkin Shield Micra, Griffin Motif, Griffin Reveal, Speck Fitted and Speck PixelSkin HD, but again, don't go in hoping to select your well-liked hue. Yeah, you're free to bicker about free things -- we won't judge.



Update: If you're one of those wise guys who purchased an iPhone 4 right away just to sell it, you can forget about getting a free case for the handset you no longer own. Apple has arranged this so that only one case can be ordered per iPhone 4, so even if you ordered two under your account name, you'll need two phones to place both of those orders. Check out the error message below if you still don't believe us.

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You ready to get Lumix'd to the max? Panasonic has five new point-and-shooters prepped for this fall, headlined by the well-leaked LX5. That camera aims to keep what was good about the stylish, high-end LX3 while pushing image quality up a notch, with better image processing and a better lens in front of the same 10.1 megapixel CCD resulting in better low light performance. There's also HD recording in AVCHD Lite at 720p. The FZ40 and FZ100 super zoomers are very similar in their 24x zoom lenses and 14.1 megapixels, but the latter can record 1080p and pull off some high speed burst shooting, while the former is constrained to 720p. The FX700 fulfills the mildewed role of a "safe" 5x zoom point and shoot, though it scores 1080p recording in addition to the needlessly high-res, looks-good-on-a-Costco-placard 14.1 megapixel stills. Finally, the TS10 brings up the low-end, with a rugged design and that good old 14.1 megapixel resolution. Its 4x zoom and 720p motion JPEG recording make it the oddball of the bunch, but it's waterproof down to 10 feet, shock and dust proof, and a good bit cheaper to boot. The TS10 will be out in September for $249, while the LX5, FZ40, FZ100, and FX700 will be out in August for $499, $399, $499, and $399, respectively. Press releases are after the break.

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"An iPhone, an iPhone, my carrier's prominence for an iPhone." Grab a cup of coffee and get natural comfortable, fans of behind-the-scenes gang drama. Wired has published an exhaustive and fascinating expose on the "loveless luminary marriage" that is Apple and AT&T -- all from sources versed with the matters but who cannot (or will not) be named, of course. In other words, don't take this as gospel, but frankly, none of this sounds too crazy or outside the realm of what we've already surmised ourselves. In brief, the two companies have been contentious towards one another since just after the iPhone was unveiled. For AT&T's part, the carrier was reportedly taken aback when its requests (delivered by Senior VP Kris Rinne) to restrict YouTube's bandwidth usage (or make it WiFi-only) while the network ground was built up fell on deaf ears in Cupertino. Word has it Apple also refused to allow its devices to be used in campaigns to combat Verizon's Map for That ads: "It was [effective] because of AT&T's network. We would have been letting them use the iPhone to put lipstick on a pig," remarked one unnamed Apple exec.



What's most interesting to us here is the ongoing reported disquisition to drop AT&T in favor for Verizon. That chapter outwardly begins just months after the original's launch, with an investigative team (including Scott Forstall) finally concluding that Qualcomm's CDMA (or CDMA / GSM hybrid) chips would require a whole




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all-out redesign of the device, not to mention a nasty lawsuit with AT&T over its unswerving deed (perhaps a minor issue, knowing Apple). Back then, Verizon wasn't seen as a guaranteed improvement, and by the numbers to order to one benchmark privy to such meetings, the carrier switch has been discussed at least a half dozen times, with the general consensus always being that it would "cause as many problems as it solved." We can't imagine this is gonna help stem the perpetual VZW iPhone rumor mill.



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Merely days after iTunes 9.2 hit the pipes in order to enable iPhone 4 syncing, Apple's systems program team has pushed out the first "minor" update since with 9.2.1. Truth be told, the list of changes, fixes and tweaks is rather lengthy for a simple point-point update, with this one allowing users to correlate apps on the iOS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes, see to and sync PDF proof as books, etc. As for fixes? For starters, it'll "disable older versions of some incompatible third-party plug-ins" (thanks?), while also addressing "minor issues with dragging and dropping items, a work issue when first syncing to some devices with iTunes 9.2" and other general speed issues that users were reporting. As for iBooks 1.1.1, that one still seems to be propagating through the iTunes server factory, promising support for books with audio and video, improvements for PDF input and other miscellaneous bug fixes. Feel free to toss your impressions of the new builds in poster below, but don't blame us if your eagerness ends up second-story work singular you love dearly.



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Sharp, you see, hasn't had much luck with its North stars and stripes phone efforts as of late -- they've made almost all of the now-dead Sidekick series, and the Kin... well, you know how that ended up working out. So on that note, we seriously wish these guys the very best of luck with their first non-Sidekick, non-Kin entry in the US market in as long as we can remember: the FX for AT&T (which looks extraordinarily like a Sidekick, actually). This puppy pairs a touchscreen with a QWERTY slide and just a 2 megapixel camera -- not particularly high-end -- but interestingly also appearance support for AT&T's FLO TV-based Mobile TV service, making it a nice upgrade for Quickfire users. It'll be procurable next Sunday, July 25 for $99.99 on concentrate after $50 mail-in rebate; in the meantime, follow the break for the full press release.

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For those of you hoping that RIM could pull off a handset capable of challenging the incredibly slim and futuristic tree-borne Android handsets in the touchphone arena, you'll have to dream past the Storm 3. From the looks of it, we'll be getting a fairly minor "refresh" of the Storm 2, as it should be to our tipster, with upgrades more designed to accommodate flowering 6 than anything. As seen on the the slide, the phone will double the Storm 2's RAM with 512MB, the camera will be bumped up to 5 megapixels, and the WiFi is being shifted to 802.11n -- a spec RIM is already rocking on the Pearl 3G, so not unprecedented. Outside of blackberry winter* 6 and that (supposedly) blazing new WebKit browser, we're assumably most enthused about the "coming soon" 3G mobile hotspot functionality, individual that's made our Android handsets invaluable as of late. We were already hearing the Storm 3 and Curve 3 (another refresh, says our tipster) were holiday possibles for Verizon, and the bottom of this slide points to an "___ember" month.

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HP's been extremely direct in saying that it plans to release webOS tablets and other devices in the future, and now that the Palm acquisition is complete, it looks like those plans are open gate to move forward -- the company just filed a 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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We're admittedly using our Jump To Conclusions Mat a little bit here, but we're pretty sure Apple's Magic Trackpad (or several they'll end up calling it) just got FCC high sign -- and pending how tightly Apple usually manages its FCC dealings, this could mean it'll be announced as early as this week. A device known only by its model number A1339 is the culprit here, described as a "Bluetooth Device" used in either with a MacBook without any registered deputy filings for WiFi or WWAN networks. The ultra-rough label fix* diagram is definitely the right shape for the accessory, and what's interesting is that the test report was completed way back in October of 2009. Has Apple seriously been sitting on this thing for the better part of a year? Keep a close eye on the Apple Store for this one, folks.

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When the Kobo e-reader first appeared, its very affordable pricepoint of $149 made it an pretty proposition. It's been a few months, however, and the market is ever-more crowded, with both third edition by the editors of the old glory heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 e-readers as well as multi-taskers such as the iPad moving into the space big time. In fact, almost all qualifies as an e-reader these days -- but there's still room for a thin, light devoted device that reads books in an
groovy* way for an affordable price... or at least that's the story that Kobo is trying to tell.



We've spent the last few weeks reading with the Kobo, with the main goal being to find out if the simple device has enough physiognomy to contend with the host of options (and price points) procurable to consumers today. Read on for our thoughts.

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ASUS' VG236H was quietly announced back at CeBIT, but the 23-inch 3D monitor is just now getting around to making itself known to affirming retailers. On sale now for a penny under $500 (which includes the turnaround $180 NVIDIA 3D Vision kit), this 1080p display has also managed to hit the test bench over at Hot Hardware. Critics over there found that it was amongst the nicest looking TN (boo) panels out there, and that the third dimension had no issue popping out on command. In fact, they had little to complain about, noting that it "consistently hit the mark in their testing [while producing] a outstanding image, whether it be 2D, 3D, work or play." Granted, it's not like you've too many options when it comes to
grab a 3D LCD, but at least we're hearing this finical one is worth a look (or three).

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We guess this doesn't come as a waylay




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A solid four months after first seeing thing sodden across half of Las Vegas, Motorola's i1 finally has a date with Sprint. The planet's first Android-equipped smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect will go nationwide on July 25th (via telesales and websites; all other Sprint channels will see it on August 8th), bringing martial spec ruggedness, push-to-talk capabilities and a certain ability to bide all sorts of death grips. Unfortunately, Android 1.5 is a bit of a dinosaur at this point, but it's still a heck of a lot better than that G'zOne Rock you're currently toting. Get ready -- you've got just under a week to scrounge up $149.99 and the nerve to sign another two-year contract.

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If you've been busy wondering what a 1,000mph car might look like, here is your answer. A full-sized model of the Bloodhound SSC has been hammered with one voice




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concurrently and is currently on show at the Farnborough International Air Show. We reckon the reason it's there is because the real deal Bloodhound will be built by aeronatics companies and its supersonic speed will justify describing its evolving as "flying." Three of the men sensible for the project, including driver Andy Green, were knotty in the current land speed record holder, the Thrust SSC, which acheved 763mph back in 1997. With better aerodynamics allied to a Falcon hybrid rocket and Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, it's believed that the Bloodhound will go all the way past the magical 1,000 marker, but there's still at least a year before a shakedown run can be enacted. If aggregate goes well, however, they might be able to squeeze their attempt at the world land speed record in before the 2012 robocalypse. Fingers crossed.

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Looks like Seagate's not content with giving users a choice of connector -- the outfit's latest GoFlex apparatus utilizes a docking system to give users an easier way to upgrade their NAS. 'Course, those that really plan ahead will go ahead and grab a multi-bay device like Data Robotics' Drobo FS, but for the money, it's hard to argue with the FreeAgent GoFlex Home. Designed to work seamlessly with Windows-based PCs and Apple's Time Machine, the 1TB and 2TB devices provide a NAS dock for the drive to sit in, and the dock itself also boasts a USB port for adding ostensible storage to the mix or sharing a printer over the network. Seagate's also tossing in its Share Pro service, which enables families to access content stored on the drive from mobile devices such as an iPhone, iPad or BlackBerry. Best of all, the $159.99 (1T / $229.99 (2T asking prices won't totally crush the bank, so it seems like you've just about run out of excuses for backing up those juvenile memories.

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If the pint-sized ASUS laptop above looks a wee bit familiar, it's because you've seen it before -- the 12-inch UL20FT is fundamentally a refreshed UL20A, but with the principally elusive Core i3 ULV guts. The UL20FT appeared at ExcaliberPC this weekend, while its Optimus-equipped big brother appears destined for Amazon; in a slight change of plans, both feature the 1.2GHz Core i3-330UM processor. While the $600 UL20FT is a solid netbook alternative, the $900 UL80JT has double the dimensions (500G and memory (4G plus an optical disc drive, and if our review of its doppelganger is any indication, the 14-inch switchable bijou machine will have stellar battery life. Still, we can't help feel a little bummed by the lack of the Core i7-640UM we were incipiently promised.



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Shocking as this might sound, up till now there were no (official) games in which iPhone and Android users could go at each in live multiplayer mode. Exploiting this vast void is Social Gaming Network, whose Skies of Glory aerial dogfighting title has been ported to Android (2.0 and above) while retaining the ability to utter with iOS devices over WiFi, 3G or Bluetooth connections. Frankly, we can't think of a better game to get the cross-platform multiplayer displacement going: fAndroids and iPhoneys gunning each other down while talking smack to themselves should prove good for both parties. On a more serious note, given the tireless growth that both platforms are showing, this kind of thing should hopefully tend toward being the rule rather than the exception.

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