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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. VT must be covering their Xserve purchase by Monkey+Overlord · · Score: 1, Redundant
    VT must be convering their G5 Xserve purchase, if not making small profit on the whole thing.

    Chances are they purchased the original G5s at a nice discount (and a cost to Mac users who ended up waiting much longer for their G5s). Their are selling them for $2799 now, without a modem. VT G5s have 1GB of RAM, but the machines must be pretty beat up considering their were a part of a Super Computer that was up 24/7 crunching numbers etc. Massive wear and tear that can not be compared to regular refubs from the Apple store (computers that were used by "normal" people on a day to day basis). Keep in mind that Apple had VT G5 equivalents in their refub section a few weeks ago for $2400.

    Also, it appears these machines are promoted as a "part of history", hardly so considering that there is no way to tell that they were a part of VT cluster.

    Is there a warranty on these machines? Do people have to buy Apple Care themselves? Considering what these machines went through in the past 6 months these are valid questions people need to ask.