Pre-Macworld news: New Mac Pro and Xserve
Like the Oscars for the technical categories, which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out ahead of time rather than bog down the major Academy Award presentations, Apple (AAPL) is using this week to introduce new products that Steve Jobs feels aren’t worthy of his keynote at Macworld next week.
Today it announced two of them:
- A new Mac Pro, with two 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, a 320GB drive, and up to 4 terabytes of internal storage for photo editors, designers and other memory hogs (starting price: $2,799). See here for press release.
- A new Xserve with a standard single 64-bit 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Xeon processor, a 80 GB drive, up to 3 terabytes of storage and an unlimited client license for Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard (starting price: $2,999). See here for press release.
Hey Elmer…please do…hold your breath, that is. We’re tired of your bashing diatribe and envy. Show us a better Intel box right now?
The Xserve still says “up to 3 terabytes of memory”.
(Does anybody EDIT this stuff? I guess not.)
No blue-ray option? That’s something of a disappointment.
Whatever the new products are, the Apple corporate use of their own iPhones seems to have locked down security big time, as no info is out there this year at all! How about paying a dividend on the stock, that would be better than a split.
The new Mac can handle 4 terabytes of storage, not memory as stated.
ex ped: right you are. fixed. thanks.
Am delighted with the announcement of two new Mac productswhen will we know what the other MAJOR innovations are ?
Have heard a rumor about a stock split-any truth to that and when, please.
ex ped: We’ll know what the major innovations are next Tuesday when Steve Jobs announces them in his keynote, which begins at 9 am PT (12 pm ET). As for a stock split, I wouldn’t hold my breath. –Philip Elmer-DeWitt
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Silicon Valley veterans like to joke that Steve Jobs must be surrounded by a reality distortion field; if you get too close to him, you start to believe what he's saying. Thanks to the success of the iPod, the launch of the iPhone and the renewed interest in the Mac, Apple has made believers out of millions of customers - and made a lot of investors rich. But Philip Elmer-DeWitt believes that an ounce of skepticism never hurts when writing about the company. He should know. He's been covering Apple - and watching Steve Jobs operate - since 1982, first for Time Magazine, then for Business 2.0, and now for Fortune.
I thought these babies went to 3.2GHz. Did I pick that up wrong??
ex ped: You did not get that wrong. They start at 2.8 GHz and go up to 3.2 GHz, per the press release.