Apple's first serious foray into the server world definitely have some controversial design decisions. The impact of these will be determined once these units get into the field. From a price standpoint, the Xserve shows up reasonably close to its Intel brethren, and in many cases surpasses the cost effectiveness of the Intel machines. From a performance standpoint, the Xserve
should certainly be able to holds its own in many cases, and if Apple's statements are verified, it even will surpass the performance of these Intel based servers on all the major tests. The Xserve can easily be a contender in the low end, low profile server market.
About your comments about the Suns: look at the specs. They are cheap... for a sun, but what's always been true about Sun remains true: Don't buy low end Suns!
Similarly, very few people use cell phones exclusively.
Then you've never been to Europe lately? Here, we have a decent GSM-network that almost never fails (yeah, on New Year and on Valentine it always fails). I know lot's of people (both young, old, poor, rich, student or CEO) that have gone to GSM exclusivly. The only reason I still have a PSTN line is for the fax and (more important) the ADSL access on it!
Bond diving faster than a crashing airplane, entering it through the side door, getting into the cockpit and rescuing the plane...
Don't remember which Bond it was, but I thing it was Goldeneye
I know there's bonnie, and ap, and a few others (don't forget BOGOmips;-)), but an "all-round" benchmarking tool like Sandra is something that's missing...
Glad they'll port Sandra!
As in the article: "Ed McGarr, Sorenson's vice president of sales and marketing,
says the compression software Macromedia uses in its Flash Player
is different from the one Apple uses in QuickTime."
So, it appears to be a completely different codec:-(
You mean 802.11a or b? Here in.be, any operation of 802.11a is prohibited. Use of 802.11b is permitted for all users, as long as the range is no more than 300m. If you are using it as a non-public network for more than 300m, you need to get a license (which costs you heaps of money, but the chances foor getting one are quite good), if you want of offer public services on the 802.11b band, you need to get permission from the minister of telecom himself...
Here in.BE, we already have that kind of thing, sort of...
When you buy an new electronic or electric device (from your PC to your coffee-maker) you now have to pay a fee called the Recupel Tax. This tax (from € 0.5 for "small IT" over € 11 for a monitor to € 20 for a freezer) goes to an organisation that recycles the equipment.
As a side-effect (and this is quite handy) every time you buy something, the dealer is forced to accept your old equipment.
So we poor.EU people (where 802.11a is not allowed as the 5.4 GHz band is not free) can get a speed bump as well? I only wonder at what range the 22Mbps will work? 50m? 25m?
My feeling as well...
I don't mind big ads or even flash ads, as long as those flash ads "stay were they are". The kind of ads I realy hate is the kind that "scrolls along" with you...
Same here in Gent. My sister's bike was stolen 4 times during her first 1.5 years at uni. Mine hasn't been stolen yet, but the lock costed more than the bike: about € 50 for the lock, while decent second-hand bikes are going aroung € 40-80...
Last time my sister reported the theft to the police, they told her "then steal one yourself"...
They don't care!
... a better windows than windows. That was actually one of their slogans, and it was so true! Apps ran usually a lot faster and more stable than under dos/win3.11!
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Similarly, very few people use cell phones exclusively.
Then you've never been to Europe lately? Here, we have a decent GSM-network that almost never fails (yeah, on New Year and on Valentine it always fails). I know lot's of people (both young, old, poor, rich, student or CEO) that have gone to GSM exclusivly. The only reason I still have a PSTN line is for the fax and (more important) the ADSL access on it!
Bond diving faster than a crashing airplane, entering it through the side door, getting into the cockpit and rescuing the plane ...
Don't remember which Bond it was, but I thing it was Goldeneye
I know there's bonnie, and ap, and a few others (don't forget BOGOmips ;-)), but an "all-round" benchmarking tool like Sandra is something that's missing ...
Glad they'll port Sandra!
As in the article: "Ed McGarr, Sorenson's vice president of sales and marketing, says the compression software Macromedia uses in its Flash Player is different from the one Apple uses in QuickTime." So, it appears to be a completely different codec :-(
a .uk person who cares about EU? Maybe I need to submit a scoop to /. ....
You mean 802.11a or b? Here in .be, any operation of 802.11a is prohibited. Use of 802.11b is permitted for all users, as long as the range is no more than 300m. If you are using it as a non-public network for more than 300m, you need to get a license (which costs you heaps of money, but the chances foor getting one are quite good), if you want of offer public services on the 802.11b band, you need to get permission from the minister of telecom himself ...
realy? Didn't know that! That's great ...
Here in .BE, we already have that kind of thing, sort of ...
When you buy an new electronic or electric device (from your PC to your coffee-maker) you now have to pay a fee called the Recupel Tax. This tax (from € 0.5 for "small IT" over € 11 for a monitor to € 20 for a freezer) goes to an organisation that recycles the equipment.
As a side-effect (and this is quite handy) every time you buy something, the dealer is forced to accept your old equipment.
So we poor .EU people (where 802.11a is not allowed as the 5.4 GHz band is not free) can get a speed bump as well? I only wonder at what range the 22Mbps will work? 50m? 25m?
My feeling as well ...
I don't mind big ads or even flash ads, as long as those flash ads "stay were they are". The kind of ads I realy hate is the kind that "scrolls along" with you ...
had such a system when they stole it three weeks ago :-(
Same here in Gent. My sister's bike was stolen 4 times during her first 1.5 years at uni. Mine hasn't been stolen yet, but the lock costed more than the bike: about € 50 for the lock, while decent second-hand bikes are going aroung € 40-80... Last time my sister reported the theft to the police, they told her "then steal one yourself" ...
They don't care!
then why is its HQ in the States?
... a better windows than windows. That was actually one of their slogans, and it was so true! Apps ran usually a lot faster and more stable than under dos/win3.11!