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G4 Cases Holding Back Clustering Acceptance?

Posted by pudge on from the cases-for-dummies dept.

Mr. Quick writes: "An article at Wired talks about how Mac hardware is well-suited for clustering, but is being held back by the sexy cases. This follows closely on the heels of Apple releasing an optimized version of BLAST. Producing rack-mount *blades* is not in Steve's vision of world domination, but the opportunity exists. I, for one, hope that apple seriously considers developing a rack mounted dual-G4. Quad G4 maybe?"

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  1. A.S.O Serves No Purpose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting
    So far there have been 9 stories posted in Apple.Slashdot.Org. Of those 9 stories, 6 have been covered at MacSlash before they were seen here. They were on M/ at least a day before they were seen here, but in one case, M/ beat A.S.O to the punch by a month. And the signal to noise ratio and comment quality generally seems to be higher there, too.

    Repackaging news from another mac web site and then insulting Apple users by ending each department name with "for dummies" is not an impressive start for this new section.

    1. Re:A.S.O Serves No Purpose by Doktor+Memory · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Repackaging news from another mac web site and then insulting Apple users by ending each department name with "for dummies" is not an impressive start for this new section.

      Remember, a.s.o is from the same drooling morons who have ended each and every story in the last three years about new Apple hardware announcements with the exact same lame gag about one-button mice. That malda still thinks this is funny pretty much says everything you need to know about him as a person (ie: monomaniac, idiot) and the intended purpose of this section of slashdot (ie: "get those damn stories about a company succeeding with unix on the desktop off the front page, we need more space for linux kernal point revision announcments and Sun press releases!").

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      News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters? Like hell.

  2. Re:Practical Macs? by foobar104 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple will never go back to generic looking cases.

    Apple doesn't have to go back to generic-looking cases. A one- or two-rack-unit case doesn't leave a ton of room to be creative, but it's still possible to make 'em distinctive.

    Look at the SGI Origin 300 and Origin 3000* for an example of a rackmount system that's distinctive and cool.

    * Underneath the rack skins, the bricks in an Origin 3000 are 19-inch rackmount components, between one and four units high. SGI racks come with extra hardware in the back for managing all the cables the system requires, but other than that they're not special.