Why not just use the burning capabilities of the Finder for ripping off audio. Getting music off a cd and making a copy of it not high-tech stuff. I have Toast and I almost never use except to make linux disc images (which is totally legal -heck, they're giving the stuff away:) As far as I understand it the kind of activities that might be hampered by Toast are the same kinds of things that you can do with iTunes/Finder anyways. The other things don't infringe on anyone's copyright.
I am concerned with the idea that Roxio feels like it has to get into the Micosoftesque mindset of making the world brutally safe for capitalism even if this results in making their users' world a suckier place...
Given that it has fewer CPU's, it is probably cheaper than some of the better-performing ones tested.
Have you seen the price of Sun computers? To get anything decent you need about $10,000, and those weren't the kind of Sun computers in this competition. Sun's cheapest 2 processor machine (that I could find on their crazy site) is $17,995. It lacks DDR RAM, Gigabit ethernet, and has a max of two hard drives. Of course I would like to see how this setup compares to the Xserve in other tests though. My point is that Sun is killing itself with really grotesque prices -their great OS now has a lot of competition in the lower end -Linux and now Xserve, and that competition is soooo much cheaper. It's a good thing for them that Microsoft's OS sucks so badly, or I imagine corporate types would've dumped Sun to go to X86 hardware a while ago. Luckily Microsoft seems incapable of putting out a decent OS so the server market still has innovation and competition. I'm willing to give the Xserve a chance, there's definitely room for competition here.
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Why not just use the burning capabilities of the Finder for ripping off audio. Getting music off a cd and making a copy of it not high-tech stuff. I have Toast and I almost never use except to make linux disc images (which is totally legal -heck, they're giving the stuff away :) As far as I understand it the kind of activities that might be hampered by Toast are the same kinds of things that you can do with iTunes/Finder anyways. The other things don't infringe on anyone's copyright.
I am concerned with the idea that Roxio feels like it has to get into the Micosoftesque mindset of making the world brutally safe for capitalism even if this results in making their users' world a suckier place...