| Tuesday, May 14, 2002 |
09:56 - I guess it's pronounced "Ten-Serve"...
http://www.macuser.co.uk/macsurfer/php3/openframe.php3?page=/newnews/newsarticle.php
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Here's what we have so far:
Apple is currently holding a press conference to reveal details of its new rack mounted server solution - XServe. We will add to this story as details emerge...
Specification: dual 1Ghz G4, 256K L2 cache, 4Mb DDR L3 cache, up to 2GB of 266MHz DDR SDRAM, 2 gigabit Ethernet ports, 2 66MHz/64 bit PCI slots, independent controllers for 60Gb or 120 Gb ATA 100 hard drive, 4 removable (slide in-slide out) drive bays for max. 480Gb storage, security locks, hardware monitoring to predict failures.
With four bays XServe has higher maximum capacity than rival servers from Dell, IBM and Sun that have just two or three; also has faster RAM; and it's cheaper - Dell PowerEdge 1560 $4277, IBM eServer X330 $5186, Sun Fire 280R $19590, Xserve $3999.
XServe only made possible by OS X - couldn't have done this pre-X.
Well, duh. A non-remotely-administratable, no-preemptive-multitasking, non-memory-protected OS would never have been able to fulfill the needs of server customers.
The price is what I find exciting here... the fact tha it's cheaper than its direct competitors is a huge coup, especially in the face of all the rumormongers who were worried that "like all things Apple" it would be a cool machine but just not cost-effective against the competition. Well, this should put paid to the cost argument.
(Sorry about that.)
Let's see what else comes out of this...
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