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Ars Technica with insider info on Apple's Intel Switch

iPod PhotoJon Stokes over at Ars Technica seems to think that there will be some big announcements coming from Apple soon, as he's decided to "spill insider information from unnamed sources that I can confirm are in a position to know the score." Stokes notes that he normally wouldn't release this info, but he fears the news will soon become stale. There's a bit of discussion about the political situation that Apple tends to create with its chip suppliers and a note that OS X tends to always be compiled for size over performance.

Here's the most eyebrow-raising bit: "If you think XScale is too powerful for the iPod, it's used in powerful color PDAs, then you're not taking the device seriously enough as a portable media platform. The XScale is plenty powerful enough to do video playback, and I have reason to believe that Apple is currently working on a video iPod to counter the Sony PSP. (My guess is that we might even see it in time for Christmas.) When the video iPod hits the streets, Apple will have an iPod product that plays each of the media formats (music, pictures, video) represented in its iLife suite."

The mythical video iPod? Did my new 60GB iPod with full color screen and photo capabilities just become dated?
 
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