On Oct 20, 2004, at 10:19 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote:
On Oct 20, 2004, at 9:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only difference is a matter of packaging and the Windows centric documentation
I'm still not sure I "get" why Apple thinks this HP deal is good for them, but I'm sure there are smarter people who have looked at this issue.
Same reason they're selling 'em in Target and Wal-Mart...to sell more iPods. Plus, this gave HP instant competition with Dell without having to develop their own worthless ripoff of the iPod.
This also gets the iPod into some corporate doors that HP sells into where the halo effect will surely take root. THAT will be a bummer for HP. though...especially of any of their customer's corporate IT execs takes the red pill and sees that Apple is selling powerful, reliable and easy to configure 64-bit servers at substantially less than the cost of HP's, they're going to HAVE to at least consider it.
(price 'em:
Xserve DP 2.0gHz, 2 gig memory with unlimited OS X server license is $4399, a 1TB raid is $5999; $10,398 total.
HP Dl145 dual AMD opteron 2.2 Ghz 1U server with 2G memory and SuSE Enterprise Linux: $5,704.001, MSA 1500 FC modular storage enclosure, $2959, plus $4193 for the drives (7 147 GB SCSI drives. You can't get HP's system with ATA drives like Apple's). $12,856 total
Note I priced it with Linux instead of Windows. Windows Server 2003 Enterprise edition, 25 seats is $3199. The Linux was $1117 for the cheapest option.
Apple comes in at nearly 20% discount.
Oh yeah "Macs are just tooooo expensive" )
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