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InfoWorld today announced the recipients of its 2005 Technology of the Year Awards, which recognize “significant technologies of the past year that promise to make the greatest impact on enterprise IT strategies as well as the products that best exemplify the implementation of those technologies.” Apple was honored for the best operating system (Mac OS X 10.3 Panther) and best server hardware (Xserve G5). Read More

Though doubting it is, as Apple claims, the fastest desktop computer in the world, Infoworld calls the Power Mac G5 “the ideal Mac.” It may not be the fastest in raw computing speed, but the reviewer says that “I/O throughput, especially memory performance, is infinitely more important than raw computing speed.” Infoworld also praises the G5’s design, “efficient and highly integrated system chip set,” and Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) operating system. Read More

InfoWorld has published a special report on Apple, consisting of four articles: Apple’s playing in the big leagues now (“The company gets aggressive to pull in enterprise IT”), Apple’s G5: More than a pretty face (“This machine may bring home the superiority of bandwidth over megahertz”), Apple RAIDs

InfoWorld has named Apple winning platform in its 2002 Technology of the Year awards. “With its platform, Apple tried to balance three seemingly conflicting goals: Keep existing Mac users happy, make OS X’s GUI and application support as rich and accessible as Windows’, and be regarded as the best Unix client platform on the market. The Mac platform is taking shape as one that users and developers outside Apple’s established niche markets can embrace.” Read More

Writing for InfoWorld, Tom Yager gives the latest PowerBook G4 a glowing review. “After spending quality time with the PowerBook running Mac OS X 10.2.2, we don’t care if we ever touch another $3,500-plus top-end PC notebook. Yes, it is that good, and its value has nothing to do with its sleek looks,” he writes. “The PowerBook G4 isn’t a product to watch; it’s the only notebook on the market worth spending $2,500 on, and at that price, it’s a steal.” Read More

In his latest InfoWorld article, Tom Yager writes “Surely the brightest spot in this dull economy is Apple Computer. After years of pumping out great-looking niche machines, Apple took the chance that the general market would go for a Unix box if it was done properly. Apple picked the worst possible time to take the biggest risk imaginable. Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server are unqualified hits on everything from $999 notebooks through entry servers.

Writing for InfoWorld, Tom Yager reports that he shelved his IBM ThinkPad for a PowerBook G4. Yager said that a long business trip gave him plenty of time to immerse himself in Mac OS X. “I started exploring the PowerBook and Mac OS X on the plane. Four hours later, I was still exploring and the battery meter said I had 30 minutes left. I was using Microsoft Office X and knocking around in Apple’s development tools… Since I got back from my trip, I have continued to use the PowerBook G4 by choice.