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Apple Introduces Xserve Rackmount Servers

Posted by pudge on from the better-late-than-never dept.

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.

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  1. Did They Fix the Filename Problem Yet? by zentec · · Score: 1, Troll


    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.

  2. What ?!?!? by denzombie · · Score: 1, Troll

    Can't I get them in fruity colors?

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    --- Evil robots don't kill people, Mad scientists kill people.