“Apple has sneaked in several small, but significant, announcements overnight,” Jonny Evans reports for Macworld UK.
“The company has confirmed it is now offering a 750GB drive as a build-to-order option [US$399] with the new 24-inch Intel iMac,” Evans reports.
Evans reports, “These large drives are also available to customers buying a Mac Pro, meaning that computer can now be acquired with a massive 3TB of storage pre-installed. The first 750GB drive – which replaces the standard drive shipped in these machines – costs [$399], while subsequent 750GB drives (which fill empty slots) cost [$599] each.”
More here.
NICE!!!! might get one of these baby’s next year… will Leopard of course…
Wow…
I need my coffee…
Too early in the west coast
Holy feakin cow! My studio’s current storage space bought in the form of a SCSI RAID box 2 years ago is only 1.5TB for 30 people…….
bit pricey if you ask me…
Cmart, your studio must not be engaged in a graphics-intensive business! I recently upgraded to 3 TB (external) because my 2 TB wasn’t enough – just for me. And I’m not working as a “professional” at the moment. Fortunately, the price of external drives has continued to come down – though still not enough. Much of the space is for backing up the other spaces. I added storage, in part, to support my move to Aperture and the tens of thousands of photos I manage. That, coupled with is couple video projects uses lots of space – and I need to be sure I have a little room for expansion. Although I am still a fan of high speed SCSI, it is certainly expensive. I would recommend adding more space for the 30 people at your “studio.”
“bit pricey if you ask me…”
I’ll second that. An OEM Seagate 750GB sata-300 can be had for $379 where I order from. I can see Apple having a markup but $599 is a bit over the top.
Dave
Wow. Apple is serious about keeping their equipment from seeming “underwhelming” to those who buy on specifications only.
They’re selling 750GB (7200rpm) Seagate Barracudas at ZipZoomFly for 344USD!
Hg Wells, I’m not sure what you’re doing, but my organization, which broadcasts worldwide two 24/7 TV channels and one 24/7 radio network and produces something like 75% or more of our own programming, only recently (in the last year or two) expanded to something like 4-6 TB of storage for our master control facility (not counting non-networked storage, like the drives on individual workstations). So it does not surprise me at all that cmart is working fine with 1.5 TB of network storage.
Someone explain to me why MDN has ads for free screensavers but they are PC only. Am I the only one who finds this weird? Do Mac users really want to pretty up their Windoze with a screensaver?
Lacie has a new external hard drive – LaCie d2 SATA II 3Gbits Hard Drive 500GB for $279.99. That seems like a really good deal.
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10811
The MacDaddy-Oh! does math so goodly. In his world 500GB > 750GB
LaCie is crap. And Hg Wells is an idiot who thinks his “experience” defines reality. And the 24″ iMac is too large.
How many GB are actually available on a 750GB drive after format?
Buster, I don’t see the ad you’re referring to, but since you brought it up, I often wonder why there are so many screen savers that are PC only. How hard could it possibly be to make a screen saver that works on Mac OSX?
“Someone explain to me why MDN has ads for free screensavers but they are PC only. Am I the only one who finds this weird? Do Mac users really want to pretty up their Windoze with a screensaver?”
So all the PC Windoze-loving trolls that visit the site will click on them and get 75 pieces of spyware installed on their computer in addition to one crappy screensaver.
I’ve used LaCie external drives almost exclusively for years and have never had one issue whatsoever.
And yeah… don’t buy extra RAM or hard drives from Apple. Unless it’s really worth that much extra $ to you to buy it all at once and have it all covered by Apple. It’s not worth that much $$$ extra to me!
I read somewhere that Apple was going to make their upgrade component prices more competitive… I guess not. Apple must have huge volume buying power for parts like hard drives and memory modules. It should share the savings with customers.
But maybe Apple does not want to bother with the expense of more BTO sales. It would rather just sell the standard config and let the users do the upgrades. By jacking up the BTO upgrade prices, Apple makes higher margins from sale to customers who don’t want to bother with doing the upgrade, or who don’t know any better. There’s probably a sales model at HQ that shows that the increase in revenue from reducing BTO upgrade prices is offset by lower overall margins and increased expenses from a higher percentage of BTO sales.
“Someone explain to me why MDN has ads for free screensavers but they are PC only. Am I the only one who finds this weird? Do Mac users really want to pretty up their Windoze with a screensaver?”
Dunno, for the windows users who read this site?