Apple Introduces Xserve Rackmount Servers

2nd Post! writes "MacCentral is reporting the announcement of 1U Apple rackmount hardware. The Xserve, despite its cheesy name, seems quite powerful: dual G4/1GHz with 4MB DDR L3 cache, up to 2GB DDR (yes!) SDRAM, 4 ATA drive bays (up to 480GB), 2 Gb Ethernet ports, 2 64/66 PCI slots (one of which may be taken up by one Gb Ethernet card), and, of course, FireWire. Pricing starts at $2,999 for a single 60GB disk and 256MB RAM." Yahoo! has posted the press release; Doc Searls is writing about Jobs' speech. Update: 05/14 18:14 GMT by M : Apple's page about the Xserve is now live.

Comments

Sign of the beginngin of the End of the World.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

Apple does something business savvy.

Damn, it is sweet looking though.

Re:Problems with XServe hardware.

[GoRK]

Where do you get 64 bits from? The registers in all the PPC chips that apple are currently using are 32 bits wide just like on x86.

Also your definitions of preemptive task switching and async i/o must be seriously wacked to say that linux can't do them and darwin can. As someone who has poked around in both systems kernels on both architectures, you are really missing the boat.

In fact, I'll go ahead and go so far as to say you are so fucking stupid, you should probably seriously consider rendering yourself incapable of propigation. Welcome to my killfile.

~GoRK

Re:No RAID in the low end model?

[alen]

That's the whole point. You have to buy the hardware RAID. It's standard on the competitors cheaper models. And software RAID is a joke.

Re:What the fuck is Apple smoking?

[Wakko Warner]

Um, retard? "Netra T1" and "Netra X1/V100/etc" were two separate and distinct thoughts. I know the two are different products but, unlike you, I'm not an anal-retentive pretentious fuck whose sole purpose is to nitpick others' "incorrect" posts.

I can go to "www.sun.com/products", too. Please pull your head out of your ass and try and get the point I was driving at, which I've reiterated several times. I will not reproduce said point for you here; you will have to figure out how to find my previous posts on the matter.

I'm quite impressed you were able to click "reply", however. Perhaps, some day, I too will have vast-yet-unimportant knowledge of the minutiae of Sun hardware (or figure out how to use the middle mouse button in X) so I can make posts like yours too. I yearn for this day.

- A.P.