Apple has announced that they will discontinue their high end professional server line, the Xserve starting on the end of January of next year. Xserve is Apple’s high end 1U rack space servers running Mac OS X Server. Apple also said that the Mac mini server is their most popular server platform. Apple also added the option to sell Mac ...
Read More »Apple price list in Saudi Arabia
This is a list of Apple Mac computers, iPods and other accessories in Saudi Arabia. We will do our best to keep it up to date. Make sure to visit the Mac Buying guide in Saudi Arabia post as well. If you would like to submit an update to the prices then please post a comment in this post. DISCLAIMER ...
Read More »Mac Buying guide in Saudi Arabia
I made an Arabic version of the MacRumor’s Mac Buying Guide in Arabic on SaudiMac.net. Keep an eye on the MacRumor’s guide if you were planning to buy an Apple product. For example they don’t recommend buying a MacBook Pro at the moment (an Intel Core i5 based MacBook Pro should be released soon). Saudi Arabia based Mac stores usually ...
Read More »Mac Pro & Xserve firmware update improve virtualization + 2 more
Apple has released 2 EFI firmware updates. Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.4 and Xserve EFI Firmware Update 1.2. The updates “Improves compatibility with virtualization products” and “Improves system reliability during the boot process”. The Mac Pro update also “Improves storage performance under Windows XP for Boot Camp users”. Via: The Mac Observer. Apple also released Unitor Family Driver 2.5 ...
Read More »Xserve with Nehalem
Apple released the latest update to their Xserve servers. It features Intel’s “Nehalem” Xeon processor. The $2,999 model’s spec are: a single 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Xeon 5500 series processor with 8MB of fully shared L3 cache 3GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC RAM a single 160GB 7200 rpm SATA Apple Drive Module dual Gigabit Ethernet on-board two PCI Express 2.0 ...
Read More »New Mac Pros and Xserves
One week before Macworld 2008, Apple updated the Mac Pro line. The new Mac Pro combines two of Intel’s new 45 nanometer Quad-Core Xeon 5400 processors running up to 3.2 GHz, new graphics and up to 4TB of internal storage. Prices start at $2,799. (From Macworld). Looks like those new Xeons are not as crappy as some haters claim it ...
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