Archives for the day Tuesday, August 7th, 2007


Sure, we already knew the Halo 3-themed Xbox 360 was on the horizon, and we even warned you to save a bit extra for those Halo-clad accessories, but now we’re absolutely certain that you better have the necessary dough by next month if you’re looking to be an early adopter. Yep, Microsoft’s special edition console will be landing sometime in September for $399.99, and will include “an authentic Spartan green-and-gold finish,” matching wireless controller, a 20GB hard drive, headset, a Play and Charge Kit, and “more” — though we’re not exactly sure what the latter may be. Get in line early folks, we’ve got all ideas this will be a fairly hot commodity.


As if Cupertino didn’t give you enough to chew on today, it looks like the Mac Pro received a small update as well. ‘Course, it seems pretty minute until you check out the pricetag ($999, for those wondering), but nevertheless, users looking to maximize their machine can now opt for a PCI Express RAID card to come built right in. The card promises “up to 304MBps of sequential read performance in RAID 0″ and supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 0+1, and Enhanced JBOD. Moreover, it sports 256MB of cache and an integrated 72-hour battery for protection, and while the machine ships with each hard drive individually configured in the Enhanced JBOD level, you can migrate the drives into a RAID setup of your choosing without reinstalling OS X by tapping into Apple’s RAID Utility software.