Andy Ihnatko recommends Windows-only Adobe Album; No more CRT iMac; more

Andy Ihnatko recommends Windows-only Adobe Album Longtime Mac fanatic Andy Ihnatko has recommended Adobe's Photoshop Album (only available for Windows) as a superior alternative to Apple's iPhoto: "As a guy who personally prefers Macs more than PCs, it pains me to speak of the Windows-only Adobe Photoshop Album (US$ 49.99). It's just so flippin' good. Apple has had its own digital photo library and management tool for a while, but whenever I talk about it, I'm forced to steal a line from 'The Godfather, Part II': iPhoto has got a good heart...but it's weak, and it's stupid. The new edition is vastly improved but still falls short of the ideal." More.

Xserve offered in stripped-down, client-limited cluster model Apple has begun offering the Xserve "cluster node," which includes dual 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 processors, 2MB L3 cache per processor, 256MB DDR333 SDRAM, 60GB ATA/133 ADM, Mac OS X Server (10 client), and Gigabit Ethernet. It's priced at US $ 2,799.00, and lacks both and optical drive and graphics support. The limit on clients is somewhat surprising, as Apple has never taken this tact with Mac OS X Server before, always offering an unlimited client license. More.

Apple stops selling the CRT iMac CNET reports that Apple's decision to pull the last remaining CRT iMac model from its online store signals an end to the system's public availability. "Introduced in a shade known as Bondi Blue , the iMac spent its childhood in candy colors like grape and lime and its early adulthood in wild hues like Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power before spending its later years in subtle shades like graphite and snow. Within hours after its disappearance from the Apple Store, the iMac was being eulogized by the Mac faithful." More.

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