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February 10, 2003
New Stuff: XServe RAID & FreeHand MX
Apple released its XServe RAID unit, and gave its XServe a speed bump to 1.33GHz. The RAID (3U) can hold fourteen 180GB 7200RPM ATA drives for up to 2.52TB of storage. The new XServe can hold four of the drives for up to 720GB of storage. That’s over 10 days of DV-quality video for you Mac video hounds out there. In other terms: Original 5GB iPod = 1,000 songs; XServe RAID = 500,000 songs. Nice.
Not completely off the radar, Macromedia also announced the release of FreeHand MX, its eleventh version of the vector-based layout/illustration software. In this version, they’ve tied it even closer into its Studio MX siblings, Flash and Fireworks. It finally anti-aliases vector artwork by default in OS X — you had to select Flash Preview mode in FH10 in OS X in order to get this effect, and it always rounded off your line ends and manipulated your color palette. The 30-day trial is available at Macromedia’s website.
They’ve also added some tools to Studio MX in their release of Studio MX Plus (Windows-only!!!). The main additions are Macromedia Contribute and DevNet Resource Kit SE. All for $900.
Posted by paullheureux at February 10, 2003 05:13 PM