I can see why Apple did it, as the price and complexity did not help sales, and endorsing an established third party is cheaper and easier. It's a shame as I love our Xserve RAIDs (we have three), even though they do put out a lot of heat and noise.
There was no official statement from Apple but the old Xserve RAID page now points to the Promise VTrak E-Class RAID Subsystem. It's bad news but it's bad news with a decent solution. The good news is that Xsan 2 was released and it looks GREAT, and the bad news is that Apple has now discontinued the Xserve RAID. Xserve RAID replaced by third party solutionToday has been a day of good news and bad news.
Update 2/29/08: Engadget has some benchmarks showing that the speed is slightly faster between the new MacBook Pro and the old one but the heat output is considerably less. So a MacBook Pro is recommended but you can get by with a MacBook if you are only editing SD footage and you will not be using Motion or Color. The MacBook Pro also has the advantage of FireWire 800 ports for faster data transfers to external hard disks - essential for HDV editing. Color will not start up at all on a MacBook because of this reason. The biggest difference between the two is the fact that the MacBook Pro has dedicated graphics, which means that you will experience much better performance in applications like Motion.
You are paying a premium for Apple's assurance that it will work, but I have never run into problems with third-party memory. Apple's memory is notoriously expensive compared to other retailers, even though it is identical. Buy the minimum amount of RAM and get it somewhere else for much less. If you are buying an editing machine, you will want to choose a non-glossy display (preferably LED) with as fast a processor as you can afford. New Macbooks and MacBook ProsApple just refreshed its MacBook and MacBook Pro lines to support Intel's new Penryn chipset.
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