Mac Pro, Mac OS X Virtual Desktops Announced at WWDC

haym37 writes "Of the many announcements yet to come at WWDC, the first is the announcement of the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro contains two Intel Xeons, up to 3 GHz, and is supposed to be 1.6x to 2.1x the speed of the PowerMac G5 quad. It can hold up to 2 TB of internal storage and up to 16 GB of memory. The graphics card can be up to a Radeon x1900 or an FX4500. The case will be the same as the PowerMac." MacRumors.com is providing running coverage from the floor (Note: "[U]pdates will be automatically inserted at the top of the updates section. Do not reload manually."), including another announcement that OS X will include virtual desktops. What a great idea!

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Re:And... iCal

[10Ghz]

Spoken like someone that has no idea of how the corporate world works.

You talked about Linux on the desktop. Are you claimin that "corporate world" is the only place where Linux wpould be used on the desktop? Most Linux-desktops I have seen have been used outside of corporations. But I HAVE seen lots of corporate Linux-desktops as well, and they seem getting more popular as well, with or without calendars. And I have seen them using mostly Evolution for their groupware-needs.

Obviously you've never spent time pushing and fighting for open source solutions to be added to your environment

So push something else. IBM has announced that Lotus Notes will run on Linux, so push that instead. It has more groupware-features that you can shake a stick at.

Calendaring *IS* where it's at.

You talked of using Linux on the desktop, period. Calendaring (or lack of it) does NOT prevent you from using Linux on the desktop. I have seen zillion Linux-desktops, all running fine even though they apparently have a huge flaw of not having a decent calendar. Hall, I have seen many companies that don't give a flying fuck about goddamn calendar.

I wonder what "flaw" people will discover next that will kill Linux'es chances on the desktop? Ease of use and the like have been long fixed, so we need something else now. And today, it seemsthat calendars are it.