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Week in Review - 09/01/03-09/05/03
Virginia Tech confirmed this week that it will use 1,100 Power Mac G5s as part of a supercomputer cluster now under construction. "The new cluster is designed to make its way into the rankings of the world's largest supercomputers, a list that currently has no Macs," reported CNET News.com. "Virginia Tech will use the cluster to perform research on nanoscale electronics, chemistry, aerodynamics, molecular statics, computational acoustics and molecular modeling, among other tasks." The university said it has been working with Apple for months to set up the cluster.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Apple said that it had started shipping some dual 2GHz Power Mac G5s , but said it would be getting up to volume production speed in the next two weeks. "The dual-processor 2GHz Power Mac G5s have begun shipping and are making their way to customers, with production volumes ramping up during the next two weeks," Apple said in the statement. "The 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz models are already in volume production, and we have shipped over 25,000 of them." The statement was not clear as to whom the dual G5s were being shipped to. As we reported last week, Apple said in an e-mail that "initial units will be sent to education institutions to meet key back to school deadlines."
Shares of Apple rose 24 cents to close at a 52-week high of US$22.85 Thursday. Apple has surged nearly 80 percent (79.64) since April 17, 2003, when it dropped to $12.72 a share. Since then, Apple has gained more than $10 a share by introducing new iPods, iTunes 4 and the iTunes Music Store, iSight and iChat AV, Safari 1.0, Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, and the Power Mac G5.
In a move that could test the legalities of Internet music resale rights, George Hotelling on Tuesday night put a digital song he purchased on Apple's iTunes Music Store up for auction on eBay. "Hotelling said he isn't all that concerned about getting his money back for the song, 'Double Dutch Bus,' which cost him 99 cents," reports CNET News.com. "Instead, he said he's using the attempted sale to probe some thorny consumer issues stemming from commercial online music services, in particular, technology known as digital rights management that's used to prevent unauthorized copying." On Thursday, eBay closed down the auction, saying the attempted sale violated its auction listing policies.
Apple posted a Knowledge Base document that says the Power Mac G5 is not supported for use with any version of Mac OS X Server 10.2 , or any earlier version of Mac OS X Server. "Mac OS X Server 10.3 will be supported on Power Mac G5 computers," notes the document. "Power Mac G5 computers require Mac OS X 10.2.7 (G5), which is made specifically for this computer. Mac OS X 10.2.7 (G5) cannot be installed on other computers, and other versions of Mac OS X 10.2 (both server and client) cannot be installed on the Power Mac G5 computer."
Forbes published its latest technology CEO job approval ratings, where visitors can vote on the performance of a list of CEOs. Apple CEO Steve Jobs received a rating of 91% for August, up from 77% in July. Rounding out the top three are John Chambers of Cisco Systems at 76% and Carleton Fiorina of HP at only 43%. Also of note, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer received an embarrassing 7% approval rating.
Virginia Tech confirmed this week that it will use 1,100 Power Mac G5s as part of a supercomputer cluster now under construction. "The new cluster is designed to make its way into the rankings of the world's largest supercomputers, a list that currently has no Macs," reported CNET News.com. "Virginia Tech will use the cluster to perform research on nanoscale electronics, chemistry, aerodynamics, molecular statics, computational acoustics and molecular modeling, among other tasks." The university said it has been working with Apple for months to set up the cluster.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Apple said that it had started shipping some dual 2GHz Power Mac G5s , but said it would be getting up to volume production speed in the next two weeks. "The dual-processor 2GHz Power Mac G5s have begun shipping and are making their way to customers, with production volumes ramping up during the next two weeks," Apple said in the statement. "The 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz models are already in volume production, and we have shipped over 25,000 of them." The statement was not clear as to whom the dual G5s were being shipped to. As we reported last week, Apple said in an e-mail that "initial units will be sent to education institutions to meet key back to school deadlines."
Shares of Apple rose 24 cents to close at a 52-week high of US$22.85 Thursday. Apple has surged nearly 80 percent (79.64) since April 17, 2003, when it dropped to $12.72 a share. Since then, Apple has gained more than $10 a share by introducing new iPods, iTunes 4 and the iTunes Music Store, iSight and iChat AV, Safari 1.0, Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, and the Power Mac G5.
In a move that could test the legalities of Internet music resale rights, George Hotelling on Tuesday night put a digital song he purchased on Apple's iTunes Music Store up for auction on eBay. "Hotelling said he isn't all that concerned about getting his money back for the song, 'Double Dutch Bus,' which cost him 99 cents," reports CNET News.com. "Instead, he said he's using the attempted sale to probe some thorny consumer issues stemming from commercial online music services, in particular, technology known as digital rights management that's used to prevent unauthorized copying." On Thursday, eBay closed down the auction, saying the attempted sale violated its auction listing policies.
Apple posted a Knowledge Base document that says the Power Mac G5 is not supported for use with any version of Mac OS X Server 10.2 , or any earlier version of Mac OS X Server. "Mac OS X Server 10.3 will be supported on Power Mac G5 computers," notes the document. "Power Mac G5 computers require Mac OS X 10.2.7 (G5), which is made specifically for this computer. Mac OS X 10.2.7 (G5) cannot be installed on other computers, and other versions of Mac OS X 10.2 (both server and client) cannot be installed on the Power Mac G5 computer."
Forbes published its latest technology CEO job approval ratings, where visitors can vote on the performance of a list of CEOs. Apple CEO Steve Jobs received a rating of 91% for August, up from 77% in July. Rounding out the top three are John Chambers of Cisco Systems at 76% and Carleton Fiorina of HP at only 43%. Also of note, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer received an embarrassing 7% approval rating.