MacBook Air

I had the chance to "lift" an MacBook Air recently, because a co-worker got himself such a beast.
Boy... great device... really.

One can argue about the lack of ports and connectivity.
E.g. only one USB port and no ethernet, only WiFi.
Not the perfect enterprise laptop, therefore.

But to me it is the iPhone of laptops... gets people hungry for Apple.
Drags them into the stores and to the Apple brand.
Any maybe get a more "enterprisy" device.

Surely a plus for Apple.

The man who collects Apples - CNN.com

The man who collects Apples - CNN.com: "The man who collects Apples"

should spell "freak" not "man"...

"[...] they are always gonna be making new stuff, so I'm always gonna be buying new stuff."

Apple and ZFS - this is sooo much fun

Breaking news via Engadet: Leopard does / does not use ZFS, part III: it does! (kinda)

Hopefully this is the last time we'll be forced to post on this topic, but we're not holding our breath: now InformationWeek -- which quoted an Apple executive this morning stating the polar opposite -- is reporting that Sun's ZFS file system IS in fact included in Leopard, albeit with a number of huge caveats. According to a company spokesperson seeking to clear up Brian Croll's "misstatement," while HFS+ continues to be the primary system used in OS X, ZFS has been coded in as a latent, "read-only option available from the command line." An IW reader claims to have accessed the system through Disk Utility's Erase menu, and states that "ZFS is only available on non-boot drives on Sun systems, so this is also the case for Leopard" -- seemingly reinforcing Croll's later assertion that Apple is really only "exploring it as a file system option for high-end storage systems with really large storage." So there you have it: Sun's Jonathan Schwartz wasn't pulling our leg after all, even if ZFS fanboys won't be pleased with the (presumably) final word on this.

This is getting more fun than I previously thought...

ZFS for Mac/Leopard .... NOT

Apple: no ZFS for Leopard - Engadget:

"Senior director of product marketing for the Mac OS Brian Croll told IW point blank that 'ZFS is not happening,' contradicting Schwartz's assertion that his company's 128-bit file system would be bringing goodies like built-in data integrity and virtual storage to the iMac and friends."

well, the rumors were to good to be true... even by my big boss.

This make Shrek the only fairy tale these days.

Slashdot:Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs?

Slashdot | Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs?: "Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs?"

Finally, someone getting the value of Sun's ZFS - built into Solaris and OpenSolaris (and some rumors say it will be ported to the Mac).
The most impressive demo of ZFS can be found here (sorry, german only).