3 posts and columns on construction

Was Apple Planning on Doubling Its North Carolina Data Center All Along?

in News on October 25, 2010 at 8:19 am PT

A quick update on Apple’s Maiden, N.C., data center and my post last week reporting that the company was considering doubling its size. Over the weekend, N.C. realtor Bill Wagenseller shot some new aerial video of the site that shows additional construction underway behind the current data center, which would seem to support that claim.

One More Thing: Apple’s New MacBook Air

in News on October 20, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Steve Jobs’s “one more thing” today at Apple’s Town Hall event was the new MacBook Air, or, as he put it, “what would happen if a MacBook hooked up with an iPad.” The quick details: Complete unibody construction, all solid state storage, and there are two models, each with two configurations: an 11.6-inch model with either 64 gb or 128 gb of storage for $999 or $1199, respectively, and a 13.3-inch model with either 128 or 256 gb of storage for $1299 or $1599, respectively.

Apple's "Big-A–" Data Center

in News on August 19, 2009 at 3:04 pm PT

Apple’s plans to build a North Carolina data center will result in a massive facility that could signal its next big initiative, one data-center expert says.