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Apple today announced the new iMac with new processors and advanced graphics. The new iMac feature new dual-core Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, in 21.5 and 27-inch configurations.

• Aluminum and glass design
• Brilliant LED displays
• Highest display resolution
• Fastest processors
• Most powerful graphics
• World’s greenest
• Built-in iSight Video Camera and Microphone

Visit the Apple website for more information.

Let your fingers do the clicking, scrolling, and swiping.

The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine. And inertial scrolling makes moving up and down a page more natural than ever. Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology. Use it in place of a mouse or in conjunction with one on any Mac computer — even a notebook.

The entire surface of Magic Trackpad is one large button, so you can click and double-click anywhere. Magic Trackpad also supports a full set of gestures, including two-finger scrolling, pinching to zoom, rotating with your fingertips, three-finger swiping, and activating Exposé or switching between applications with four fingers.

Visit the Apple website for more information.

About Mac OS X Server v10.6.4 Update (v.1.1)

The 10.6.4 update is recommended for all servers currently running Snow Leopard Server version 10.6. It includes Safari 5 and general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your server, as well as specific fixes for:

• CalDAV querying of email addresses with Active Directory and Open Directory servers
• stability and reliability accessing Wiki Server pages
• view movies on Wiki Server with Safari on iPad
• accessing publicly accessible Wikis when logged in to the Wiki Server
• listing blogs on Wiki Server
• vacation mail notices that span across multiple days
• updates from Software Update Server viewable by clients
• stability and reliability to Software Update Server synchronization
• downloading of software updates by Software Update Server
• creating NetInstall images which include iLife updater packages
• address issues copying, renaming, or deleting files on SMB file servers
• improve reliability of VPN connections

Visit the Apple website for more information.

What’s new in Xcode 4

Xcode is the complete toolset for building Mac, iPhone, and iPad applications – and with Xcode 4, the tools have been redesigned to be faster, easier to use, and more helpful than ever before. The Xcode IDE understands your project’s every detail, identifies mistakes in both syntax and logic, and will even fix your code for you. Quite simply, Xcode 4 will help you write better code.

Xcode 4 has a brand new user interface, built upon proven technologies that Apple itself uses to build Mac OS X and iOS, and that have produced over a quarter million Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps.

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The Fastest Fibre Channel Storage Solution

The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre 8 offers the most storage, the highest speeds, and unparalleledreliability. It’s the ideal solution for post-production professionals working with HD, as well as for IT managers looking for a rock-solid storage solution, and with its 8Gb/s Fibre Channel interface, it’s faster than ever. The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre 8 has 12 individually-tested enterprise class disks, supports six RAID modes, including 5, 50, and 6,and allows the user to create up to 60 cost-effective enterprise class SATA disks or 96 high-performance SAS drive disk arrays.

Visit the LaCie website for more information.