On Jun 18, 2005, at 5:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If an XBox with a triple core G5 in it can cost $300
The G5 chip IBM's building for the X-box is a cut-down version of the one they make for Apple. Like the CELL processor IBM is making for Sony, these chips do fewer things faster than general purpose CPU's. I also have no doubt that this was one of the 'last straws' pushing Apple away from IBM....
i think Apple can make a MacMini for $400 and dont tell me otherwise.
Ok, I won' tell you otherwise, but the market will bear me out. It's not like the people running Apple are stupid or anything.
And yes, ANY computer can be a server, dont tell me otherwise.
Absolutely. My web server for years was a Performa 6214 'road-apple' with 64 megs of ram, a 4 gb disk, running 8.6.
You said 'server-class', which is an entirely different thing, semantically.
Server class machines have features like fault-tolerance, dual power supplies, higher speed motherboards and Xeon or G5 processors.
Apple makes a 'server class' machine: the Xserve. A dual 2.3 Ghz system, 1U in size, 1G DDR400 ram, OS X unlimited clients, and an 80G drive sells retail for $3999.
Dell sells a similar system, The Power Edge 2850. It's 2U high, and the base SINGLE 2.4 Ghz processor version, 256M ram, NO OS, no drive, no mounting rails costs $4028.
Built similarly to the Mac, you end up paying $7,460. And at that, that's only a 25-client license for the OS (WinXP 2003 server).
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