A few years ago Apple's product naming was horrendous. Performa, Quadra, 6300 6400 4200 9600, it made no sense, had no meaning/continuity. Now they are a thing of beauty. Each type of hardware (portable, desktop, monitor, etc.) has its own name. Mac (for desktops obviously,) Book, Pod, Studio Display. And each product has a prefix that correlates with its target market. i Power and now with the introduction of eMac, most likely e (i think apple will make an eBook based off the 12.1 iBook... I also think they will make the e series publicily available saying that families can get the same thing their kids work on in schools). I think Apple might spin off the Server line into its own category. There are two i machines, 2 power machines, 1 e machine (err, eMachines), and soon to be 2 server machines. You see where I'm going. . With the next revision in the Power Macs, Apple will release an update to what is currently the Power Mac G4.I think with inkwell they will release a tablet/pda type device... iPad is my best guess. I think there will be a set-top box somewhere. Using rendevous, airport2, bluetooth, firewire. It will allow u to browse the internet, iChat, Mail, share and play your music, watch ur movies, pictures, DVD's and tivo like service. Let me know what you think of my rather lengthy post
- Entertainment media and all-purpose server for home use (I guess B&O price tag)
- Workgroup server (user profiles, directory, inter-/intranet and file services) for schools, and - depending on scalability - small, medium and enterprise level businesses
The techology is either allready available or coming or at least imaginable. From what Bodhi said in an other thread, I guess Apple has a pretty cool clustering solution coming and I bet they have a pretty user friendly management utility to come with it.
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Not so good, but obvious: "MacRack".
I doubt the name will have either "Mac" or "Rack" in it.
Apple: Think - that would make a difference.
Yes, I think you're right. It's not a particularly exciting name, but as long as the hardware itself is exciting, I'll be happy.
eMac
how about rMac or
LabMac
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iServe
iHost
iWishithadag5
iSuck
iG3 sever
iRack
For a professional line:
ProServe
ProIwishithadag5
and finally:
"The neat expensive doodad that can host all kinds of information on a networky thingy."
I do have to say "PowerRack" has a certain appeal to it <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> .
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- BLAST number crunching for bioinformatics
- Hollywood SFX and production processing
- Entertainment media and all-purpose server for home use (I guess B&O price tag)
- Workgroup server (user profiles, directory, inter-/intranet and file services) for schools, and - depending on scalability - small, medium and enterprise level businesses
The techology is either allready available or coming or at least imaginable. From what Bodhi said in an other thread, I guess Apple has a pretty cool clustering solution coming and I bet they have a pretty user friendly management utility to come with it.
:eek:
Sorry to bring this thread to such a low level but I couldn't resist.
<strong>For the basic line of file servers:
iServe
iHost
iWishithadag5
iSuck
iG3 sever
iRack
For a professional line:
ProServe
ProIwishithadag5
and finally:
"The neat expensive doodad that can host all kinds of information on a networky thingy."
I do have to say "PowerRack" has a certain appeal to it <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> .
[ 05-08-2002: Message edited by: Crusader ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
No,no,no....
iServe and PowerServe
sMac (server)
LabMac
uMac
<strong>Ok I know it's bad but.... iRaq?? hows that?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Terrorist!!!!