From the Dark Side 2--Portable MHz Gap Widens as Intel Announces 1-GHz Mobile Pentium Today

according to this TechWeb article. While double the clock speed of the 500 MHz PowerBook G4, Intel's new laptop CPU is expected to offer about the same performance for most operations. Intel's new CPU is expected to show up today in at least one manufacturer's high end laptop.

-- TGIF & Weekend, March 16-18 --

[9:30p 3/16]WWDC: Early Registration Discounts End Soon: From Apple, "Join developers and Apple engineers from around the world at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference from May, 21-25 in San Jose, California. At WWDC, you can get the latest updates on technologies like Carbon, Cocoa, Quartz, Aqua, QuickTime, WebObjects, Darwin, USB, and FireWire in over 100 in-depth technical sessions, hands-on workshops, and more. Streamline your Mac OS X development efforts at WWDC. And remember, registration discounts for ADC Select and Premier members ends April 20, at 5 PM PST.

[6:30p 3/16]More Apple Retail Store Evidence--Pittsburgh, PA, this time. In today's edition of the Pittsburgh Business Times, Herky Pollock, executive vice president at CB Richard Ellis/Pittsburgh, states he's representing Apple in its location search in Pittsburgh. According to Pollock, Apple hopes to have 3-4 stores in Western Pennsylvania open by the end of this year with the first stores open in the next couple of months. In comparison, Gateway has just three stores in the Pittsburgh area according to Greg Pacek, the reader who called our attention to the PBT article. We posted our own evidence of a store in the Washington DC area on March 6th plus there is other evidence first posted elsewhere for Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Chicago, New York and Denver. [Greg Pacek]