Year: 2005

The Register: ‘Whatever happened to… the Apple Mac?’

In his Macworld Preview column for The Register, Andrew Orlowski ponders Apple’s plans for its computer business — in light of iPod’s overwhelming success. In particular, the columnist wonders what a budget Mac would mean for Apple in terms of market share, profit and image. “With Microsoft’s continuing difficulties in getting Longhorn out of the stable, 2005 looks like a prime opportunity for Apple to capitalize on its hard work,” concludes Orlowski.

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WiebeTech intros slew of new products at Macworld

WiebeTech today has introduced a number of new products at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. First up, the company’s newest RackFire+ packs up to 1.6TB of storage into a small 1U rack mount enclosure. It features two big FireWire drive trays, each with a capacity of two 400GB drives for 1.6TB total. In addition, each tray is a high-performance, hardware-based FireWire RAID. Pricing begins at US$699.95 for just the enclosure.

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