Thursday 23 May 2002

Well, Apple sure have been busy recently! Not content with giving us a sneak peak at Jaguar, they first fulfil their promise from the WWDC and unveil Xserve, their amazing-looking rack-mount server, and then announce improvements to the iBook specifications with faster processors and upgraded video cards. What remains in store for New York in July, I wonder?       One thing worries me a bit about all this: not so long ago Steve Jobs was making a big thing of the need to rationalise the hardware product line and came up with the famous 'Four Boxes', neatly divided into comsumer desktop, pro desktop, consumer laptop, pro laptop. But now we have the Xserve, the G4 PowerMac, the G4 iMac, the G3 iMac, the eMac the G4 TiBook, the iBook (in two sizes) and the iPod (have I covered everything?). I sure hope Steve knows what he's doing, and that he has a long-term, focused strategy.       But seriously, folks: isn't the Xserve gorgeous?! My immediate reaction when first I saw it on Apple's site was 'this could be made by B&O', and it certainly does continue the Apple design philosophy in a wonderful way. I have never seen any other rack-mount server illustrated, but I cannot imagine anything BA (before Apple) being other than boring and utilitarian compared to this. Way to go! 12:42:38 AM

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