BBB Pans Apple's Initial Power Mac G5 Ad

1999–2004March 29, 2004Dana BaggettApple hardware
The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus recommended that Apple stop advertising the Power Mac G5 as the fastest, most powerful personal computer and that the G5 is the first 64-bit personal computer according to this CNet article. The NAD found Apple's evidence insufficient for the claim and that Apple's wording could encompass workstations. Dell Computer was fingered as the fink.

-- TGIF, March 26 --

[Update 10:30a EST] Apple Revised Offerings from Four of their Hot Deals Retailers:

ClubMac has fantastic deals on a variety of products for your Mac, including Planar Systems 17" Flat Panel LCD Display with $80 mail-in rebate, Adobe Creative Suite Standard Upgrade from Photoshop, Hewlett Packard LaserJet 3380 All-in-One Device, Epson Perfection 4870 Flatbed Scanner with SilverFast, Netalog Transpod All-in-One Car Solution for iPod, TriSynergy X-Plane, You Software You Control 1.0, and much more.

OWC has money saving deals on a bevy of upgrade products for your Mac, including FasterMac.NET TurboMac Unlimited, OWC Mercury G4 Processor Upgrade for all Power Mac G3 Models, OWC Mercury G4 Processor Upgrade for Power Mac G4, Hitachi 160GB 7200RPM SATA Drive with 8MB Data Cache for Power Mac G5, OWC Laptop Screen Protector, Miglia Alchemy TV DVR PCI Tuner Card, and much more.

MacConnection has great deals on a wide array of Mac products, including Roxio Toast with Jam 6 with a $30 mail-in rebate, Canon ZR80 MiniDV Digital Camcorder, Speck iSport Custom iPod Waist Pack, Intuit TurboTax Deluxe 2003 for Mac with FREE single download of TurboTax State, Intuit Quicken 2004, Extensis Portfolio 6.1, Apple eMac Bundle with Vivicam 3340 Digital Camera, and much more.

O'Reilly has great deals on some of it's most popular book titles for the Mac, including "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition," "Mac OS X for Geeks," "Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition," "Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual," "The Best of the Joy of Tech," and more.

[Update 8:30a EST] Students Testify in Favor of Expanding Maine iBook Program to High School: Some 25 middle school students testified before the Maine Legislature on how important the iBooks had become to their education in 7th and 8th grade according to this morning's Portland Press Herald article. The Legislature is considering Gov. John Baldacci's proposal to extend the program to 9th grade in high school basically at no cost for the first year. The 25 students representing nearly every county in Maine testified that the iBooks had become so central to their education that they can't conceive of going to high school without them and recounted all of the benefits for the Legislature. [Dana Baggett]

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