New & Noteworthy: PowerBook price cuts; iBook in college; Salon on the Digital Millennium Copyright act; more

PowerBook price cuts official We reported Friday on speculation by several news outlets that PowerBook price cuts were on the way and that the CD burner promotion would end early. Apple confirmed the news late Friday in this press release.

When Packing for College, Which Computer? From the New York Times: "...at $1,300, the superbly designed, snow-white, five-pound iBook is far less expensive than equivalent Windows notebooks. Without a doubt, this is the off-to-college computer I'd buy for my daughter. If she weren't 2, I mean." (Thanks, William Bonk). More.

Fingered by the movie cops From Salon: "This article does have a point, but it’s not about piracy. It’s about a flawed piece of legislation that allows a person to be penalized for an alleged action before he has the chance to defend himself." More.

DVD RW format endorsed by Dell Seven members of the DVD RW Alliance (including its newest member: Dell), which is a group of companies committed to the benefits of the DVD RW format, announced the launch of several new consumer electronics and personal computing products supporting the DVD RW standard. DVD RW is a competitor to the DVD-RW format used in Apple's SuperDrive. More.