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Strange days, on the one hand you see Apple discontinue its main enterprise product (the Xserve) in the same week as we see the company's enterprise credentials climb a notch or two, and we also learn the company's looking to mobile payment solutions in order to bring people without credit cards inside its future iWallet economy.

Today's Xserve release was pretty much on par with what you'd expect. Upgraded Nehalem processor, faster bus, etc. There was, however, one curve ball that Apple threw us in the storage department.

All of the duckies are lining up for some new chips in high end Macs.

Apple today discontinued its line of XServe RAID storage systems and is replacing them with Promise RAID Boxes. The new boxes can be configured with up to sixteen 750GB SATA hard drives or 16 SAS 300GB drives for up to 12 TB of storage. The former Xserve RAID was 14x750Gb.

Promise's RAID box is also certified to work with Apple's XSAN Disk Management suite.

Apple's big announcements are usually saved for Macworld San Francisco. So what does it mean that the fastest Macs ever were unveiled the week before the Expo begins?