Apple is the best - official

BECAUSE OF recent accusations of Apple bashing in our letters column, our reporters have scoured the net for a bit of positive news about the company.

Apparently this week Apple has won the Best of Show award at Bio-IT World Conference in Boston.

It got the award for its Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics, which is a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster based on the Xserve G5. It is aimed at providing a turnkey solution for scientists who have little or no IT support and like lots of nice graphics to help them understand what is going on.

The clusters are a snip at US$28,000 - each cluster ships with two to 16 Xserve G5 servers, 750GB of storage in the head node, an Asanté gigabit Ethernet switch and APC Smart-UPS power supply, all in an XtremeMac Xrack Pro enclosure.

[Reporter goes and lies down now] .µ