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Own a Piece of An Apple-Based Supercomputer

Posted by simoniker on from the tremendously-historical dept.

Graff writes "Now that Apple has come out with the Xserve G5, Virginia Tech has been swapping out parts of their 'System X' supercomputer for the more compact 1U Xserves. MacMall is selling some of those System X component G5 systems with an approximate $200 savings and an extra 512 megs of RAM over a normal G5. You can read more about it at MacCentral."

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  1. Is Slashdot selling these computers? by John+Seminal · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The article says you get: $200 savings and an extra 512 megs of RAM over a normal G5.

    Fine, I pointed out that was after a $99 dollar rebate for the RAM and a $40 installation fee. Then I was modded down. Hmmm.

    What I would like to know is if the owners of this site get money for some of the stories they post. I wonder, because what I posted about the fee was vaild, yet it was marked off topic. If they get money based on some stories, then I would probably go elsewhere for my news.

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    1. Re:Is Slashdot selling these computers? by Bruce+J+L · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      Actually you were modded down because you were commenting on the sites normal rates and not the actual virginia computers which were on the side.
      Then you went offtopic griping about mail in rebates

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  2. Re:Wear issue? by dario_moreno · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    hey moderators !

    my post was 3 minutes younger than the post above saying the same thing (but with different arguments).

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  3. Re:Proof? by netwiz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    She saw the audit sticker and assumed I stole it and gave it to her. Still doesn't believe me to this day that the computer is legit

    You've got some real trust problems WRT your GF.

    Unless you've given her a real reason to make said assumption, I'd dump her ass ASAP. That's going to turn into real trouble later in your relationship.

    ON TOPIC CONTENT: Does anyone know if the discount is off the retail price, or off the educational price?