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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.
Not sure I'd want to run a webserver on OSX. The peculiarities of OSX make me shudder to think of the hair-pulling and "ports" required.
I purchased one of Apple's iBooks last year and was totally dazzled by the display, OSX's performance. I opened a shell and was turned off enough to pack the thing into its box and take it back (eating the 10% restocking fee).
OSX has some peculiarities with its filesystem that are annoying. In Unix, myFilename.txt isn't the same as MYfilename.txt which isn't the same as myfilename.TXT. In OSX, you can't have those three files because the name is the same as far as OSX is concerned.
Unfortunately, I can't remember all the other little annoyances that prompted me to write of the $150 as a fee for trying out one of the iBooks. Too bad too, I really liked the hardware, just hated how different it was from Unix or BSD.
Can't I get them in fruity colors?
--- Evil robots don't kill people, Mad scientists kill people.
256mb ram and 1 GHZ g4, for $3000. It's a rack server, but I got more power than that in a $700 athlon. I wouldn't be complaining if it was $1500 (over twice the cost), but really, I'd much rather have a sun box (proven, fast) for $3000 than an apple.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
Maybe its just due to all my time working on Sun and HP boxes, but how are you supposed to interface with this? You can either go the KVM route, which I find cumbersome and impractical (I only ever see it set up for Win NT boxes), or you can set up a terminal server... but there is no serial line. I havn't looked at Mac boxes in a while, so how are you supposed to connect to this (without running SSH or Telnet on every Apple box in your server room).
... all it needs it another mouse button.
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