User manual

AppleSauce
November 2003
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Presidential Keyboard
Frank Wade
B y the time you read this Mac OS X 10.3 will be available
for sale in Australia. There is more information on this
major upgrade elsewhere in this edition and at
<www.apple.com.au/macosx/newfeatures/> . There
will also be a presentation at SAAUC’s November meeting
(7 November). This evening will also offer SIGs, and there
will be an opportunity to enter a raffle to win a new 12in
PowerBook or digital camera.
Whilst you are thinking of SAAUC meetings, put Friday
5 December in your diary. This will be our last meeting for
this year and there will be a number of presentations as
well as our traditional special Christmas supper.
Apple has released new versions of QuickTime, iTunes,
iCal and iSync recently, as well as completely new iBooks.
Mac rumour sites report that new Apple displays are
in the wind for a November release.
Apple recently posted a net profit of $US44 million, or
12 cents a share, for its fiscal fourth quarter ended
September 27. These results compare to a loss of $45
million, or 13 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter.
Revenues for the quarter were $US1.715 billion, up 19
percent from the year-ago quarter. Analysts were
expecting earnings of 7 cents per share, according to
First Call. Apple said it shipped 787,000 Macintosh
units during the quarter, up 7 percent from the year-
ago quarter, as well as 336,000 iPods, up 140 percent
from the year-ago quarter.
SAAUC currently has 239 financial members, at least
133 of whom claim to be using a version of Mac OS X.