What's Hot

This is your guide to the hottest, newest technologies -- and how they affect Clients & Profits. Edited by Chris Lawrence and Phil Nigash. Looking for deals? Mac Mini If you have a spare monitors, mice, and keyboards around, the new Mac Mini is a great cost and space-effective upgrade. Be aware that it ships with a low 256MB of ram. More can be added as an option, but it's costly. Aftermarket ram can be added (replacing the factory-installed ram since there's only one slot), but the case is not easily user-serviceable (requires a putty knife to open). PowerBook G4 The new PowerBook has no significant drawbacks despite its small size, and its multimedia capabilities are just about the best you can expect from a small notebook. Xserve RAID Xserve RAID is an industry breakthrough product, offering up to 2.5TB of high-performance redundant storage at just over $4 per gigabyte -- a fraction of the cost of storage from Dell, HP, Sun or EMC. Xserve RAID features dual independent RAID controllers for redundant storage, a dual 2Gb Fibre Channel interface for ultra-high performance and dual power supplies for peace of mind, all starting at $5,999. Clients & Profits does not currently work with Apple OS X server in a cross-platform environment, but should be fine for all-Mac shops. Chip paths diverge at Intel Desktop and notebook processors will start to go their separate ways with the introduction of two new chip families that Intel will tout this month at its Developer Forum. During the four-day conference in San Jose, Calif., the company will provide further details on Prescott, a successor to the Pentium 4, coming later this year, as well as the Pentium-M, a new type of notebook chip debuting March 12. HP's Intel server Hewlett-Packard has begun selling two important new products, servers with eight Intel Xeon processors. The new systems, the ProLiant DL760 and DL740, have arrived to replace an elderly model that Compaq Computer introduced in 1999.