London's MacExpo 2004 Opened Yesterday, Here are Photos

posted by Apple on this web page. The event attracted 100 vendors including top Mac software and hardware firms like Adobe, Bose, Epson, HP, Microsoft, Quark and Sony. About 20,000 visitors are expected over the three days, some 20-30% of a U.S. Macworld Expo crowd. [Dana Baggett]

[11/19 updated] IBM Power5 "G6?" Top Servers Smash Top HP Rival by Three Fold according to this Reuters article on Yahoo News. IBM's servers running Unix with IBM's Power5 (G6?) CPUs beat out HP's highest end server running Intel chips, not just by a comfortable margin but by nearly three times. To quote the salient part of the article,

IBM said its eServer 595 in the widely recognized TPC test of banking, insurance and retail transactions performed 3.21 million transactions per minute, or nearly three times the 1.2 million transactions of HP's fastest tested machine.

The G5 is a Power4 CPU so the Power5 may become Apple's G6 CPU. Does anyone still think Apple should switch to Intel CPUs? [Dana Baggett]