Saturday July 05, 2008

- Hitachi will bring out 5 TB disks by 2010 - Lionel - 07:41:51

Source : Electronista

Hitachi announces that by 2010 its hard drives will reach the density of 1 terabit per inch, and will offer 3.5" products of 5 TB.
To illustrate these remarks, Hitachi announces that a computer equipped with 2 of these disks would have the same memory size as a human brain, a thing impossible to check.
More than ever, one should wonder what use could be made such products, at least for the general public and the vast majority of the professionals.
Also let us hope that the data flow of these disks also make a real good advance, if not it will take an unacceptable amount of time to fill them or copy the contents of it.

[translation by crispin]

- A big edititing group changes to the Mac - Lionel - 07:31:52

Source : Heise.de

If Apple needed a very strong sign to show the world that Mac has returned to business use, it has just been offered to them by Axel Springer DG of one of the largest editors of the European press, based in Germany.
The group announced that it was going to acquire Macs to replace its of its PCs used by its 10.000 employees. The reasons given by their DG in a Youtube video must give to pleasure the people running Apple:
- the Mac is simpler to use
- the Mac is more elegant
- the Mac is less expensive to buy and especially to maintain.
The changeover should be done gradually over 5 years.
Of course, it is also a large defeat for Windows Vista, the transition towards this latest version is not simpler than a complete change of computing environment.

[translation by crispin]