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A rack mount for the Mac Pro and other news for March 27, 2014

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<p>It's been a rather quiet morning, but here are three stories we found for you.</p>

<p>Sonnet Tech has announced a 4U rack mount for Apple's cylindrical Mac Pro (http://www.sonnettech.com/product/xmacproserver.html). The so-called xMac Pro Thunderbolt 2 PCIe Enclosure rolls off the tongue and includes three PCIe single-width expansion slots; Thunderbolt 2 compatibility, as the name indicates; and hardware for mounting additional storage. The whole thing comes with a 300W power supply and a 75W PCIe power connector.</p>

<p>BusyMac Software has announced new software BusyContacts (http://www.busymac.com/busycontacts/index.html). They call it a "complete replacement" for Apple's built-in Contacts app and its design resembles that of iTunes. BusyContacts offers sync support for iCloud, Google Contacts, Exchange, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. A public beta is now open.</p>

<p>Mavericks adoption is chugging along at a nice pace (http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/03/27/adoption-of-os-x-109-mavericks-significantly-outpaces-108-mountain-lion). The folks at Chitika note that Mavericks now generates nearly 40% of all North American OS X-based web traffic. They also note that Mountain Lion was at 26.8% after seven months. It's important to note here that Mavericks is free, of course.</p><p style="padding:5px;clear:both;">A rack mount for the Mac Pro and other news for March 27, 2014 (http://www.tuaw.com/2014/03/27/a-rack-mount-for-the-mac-pro-and-other-news-for-march-27-2014/) originally appeared on TUAW: Apple news, reviews and how-tos since 2004 (http://www.tuaw.com) on Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:30:00 EST.  Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://legal.aol.com/terms-of-service/full-terms/).<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6>Source (http://www.tuaw.com/tag/news-roundup)&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2014/03/27/a-rack-mount-for-the-mac-pro-and-other-news-for-march-27-2014/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink[/url]&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/20857606/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this[/url]&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2014/03/27/a-rack-mount-for-the-mac-pro-and-other-news-for-march-27-2014/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments[/url]

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