Apple announced today updated Xserves, as well as the new Xserve RAID. The new servers feature up to dual 1.33 GHz processors, up to 720 GB of storage, FireWire 800, dual Gigabit Ethernet, optional 2 GB Fibre Channel, and unlimited client licenses for Mac OS X Server.
The new Xserve RAID is a 3U rack-optimized enclosure that offers up to 2.52 TB–that’s terabytes–of storage, dual 2 GB Fibre Channel ports, full redundancy for continuous uptime, and powerful remote monitoring.
The Xserve base price drops to $2,799, and the Xserve RAID pricing starts at $5,999. Apple is certainly looking to kick some butt in the enterprise market!
Tag: Mac
Panic released an updated version of their FTP client today. Mostly a bug-fix release, it does include an oft-requested feature: a preference that allows the user to define what the app does when a file is double clicked. From my limited beta-testing of this release, it remains solid and adequate for my GUI FTP needs. (I tend to use Terminal most of the time.)
My favorite antivirus application has been updated. .Mac subscribers should log in and download the new version, which includes an automatic virus definitions update feature.
A colleague just sent me this link to a baked Apple. Please note that there are links at the top of the page to more pictures other than those immediately displayed.
What frickin’ rocks is that the PowerBook still boots and they’ve installed Mac OS X 10.2.
Four and a half years after Apple declared the floppy disk was dead with the introduction of the iMac, the rest of the computer industry is finally starting to follow suit. Dell, of course, is “innovating” ahead of the other PC box companies.
I truly love this quote:
“What Dell has done, I expect every major vendor to do in the next 12 months.”
This from Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, a technology consulting firm in San Jose. Where was Tim four and a half years ago, when it was Apple announcing it was removing the floppy disk drive from its systems, beginning with the then-new iMac?
If you are one of those folks who just cannot let go of WordPerfect for the Mac, you can download the last version, released free by Corel, here. (Thanks to a Macintouch Reader Report.)
Even though I’m late in the day reporting this, Apple released upgraded iMacs today. The 17″ iMac now sports a 1 GHz G4 processor, while the 15″ strolls along with an 800 MHz G4; the flat-panel iMacs sell for $1,799 and $1,299 respectively.
The 17″ iMac sports a faster system bus, 133 MHz, uses DDR SDRAM memory, a 4x DVD-burning SuperDrive, and a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX video chipset with 64 MB of DDR SDRAM. It is also Airport Extreme- and Bluetooth-ready. The 15″ iMac remains compatible with the original Airport, and can use Bluetooth only with a USB adapter.
Thanks to Mike for the link to Kodawarisan Oheya’s step-by-step disassembly of a 12″ PowerBook G4.