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In Apple's Q3 financial conference call yesterday, it was confirmed that the new iMac scheduled to ship in September will use the G5 processor from IBM (probably the PowerPC 970FX as this is the line which has hit delays).

In Q3, Apple shifted 13,000 XServes. Not bad for a company largely unproven as a server vendor. Combining this with the very unusual move of pre-announcing product specs. suggests Apple is finally in a position to start taking the enterprise market seriously. The Windows NT Server Migration Tools which will be built into Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Server should encourage contined growth for Apple in this area.

Highlights at http://www.macminute.com/2004/07/14/q3highlights

Markus

mmm, G5 iMac, lovely.

Also heard rumors of possible new iPods in August, I *knew* there was a reason why I did not buy one on monday

rich101

> possible new iPods in August

That could explain the 121 40GB iPod's now available at ebuyer at a v. reasonable £264.99+VAT = £311.37 !

Just checked and there are 15GB (£211.49 inc VAT) and 20GB (£242.04 inc VAT)versions on there too . . . .

I have never seen iPods being sold at a discount before even on the last model change.

Beats me how anyone could have more than 20GB of MP3's anyway.

rich

RB5-Black

ermmm my 40GB ipod is full

Iain Young

I've filled up my 60Gb Zen, so it's easily possible to have that many

Markus

I've got a modest library on the machine here and it's 15GB, and that does not include the 100 odd cd's sitting at home which I need to rip.

Rumor has it that the largest iPod would be 60GB, thus meaning, I would hope, the smallest would be 20GB.

angrynorth

Good job the next iPod will be 60gig then RB5

AllanB

If Toshiba can churn enough of the drives out then maybe the 60Gb ipod will sell if the wait is not too long. I think you may see PowerMac G5s go into some constraint soon and the US Goverment have just bought another 1100 XServes so this may ahve a knock on effect too. Not sure if this is one of the projects using XGrid to link them together to act as one supercomputer. We've seen a big big increase in XServe sales. Consdiering what they do they should sell more but don't market them very well. Great piece of kit when linked to the XServe RAID. XSAN could be internesting too and a greta way of getting XServes into a windows emvironment. We've actually seen some takeup from mainly Windows clinets looking for something reliable unlike the Windows servers they have.

We still have a few of the old Imacs left ( we bought all the stock) and eMacs were looking scarce but stock came in again today.

We are seeing linger delays on the older G4 Powermacs that support dueal booting for OS9 and we suspect they could disappear soon. Again we did have good stocks ( cpuple of hundered) but these are going very quickly and could run out in a week or so.


AllanB

angrynorth

The XServes are immense;y popular at the moment, UMaine and another university, plus Virginia Tech plus the US Army and there are a fair few clusters knocking around powered by these.

By the end of the year its predicted there will be 8 or more Xserve clusters listed within the top 100 fastest super computers along with the VT and Mach5 (army) being in the top 5. That's pretty good news for the G5 as a whole, but it will obliterate stocks of 2.0Ghz processor.

rich101

OK,

60GB is a whole lot of cd's or p2p

rich