New and Noteworthy: MacFixIt editor on MacRadio.com; Interview with Apple Asia-Pacific VP; more

MacFixIt editor on MacRadio.com MacFixIt editor Ben Wilson appeared on Gene Steinberg's Mac Night Owl Live this past Friday to discuss the WWDC announcements and their impact on the Mac community. The latest troubleshooting news and information was also covered. More.

Interview with Apple Asia-Pacific VP MIS Web has an interview with Tony Ho, Apple's Asia-Pacific Vice President. After 14 years at IBM, he left to join Apple last October. Ho, 39, was formerly general manager and director of IBM?s Greater China PC division, where he was responsible for sales in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. "Apple's goal in Beijing is to increase market share in its traditional strongholds such as publishing and design, expand into the consumer electronics space with its iPod digital music player, and make inroads into the enterprise space via its Xserve and Xserve RAID servers." More.

AMD responds to G5 with Opteron chip line Advanced Micro Devices unveiled a new line of Opteron processors for servers. The chipmaker introduced the Opteron 800 and Opteron 100, the two latest versions of its 64-bit Opteron processor for servers . AMD created the 800 line for four-processor or eight-processor servers and the 100 line for single-processor servers. Because of Opteron's pricing, manufacturers will be able to build a four-processor server that will sell for less than $10,000. More.

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