Actually, a couple of points. The G5 was the Professional Mac during a period when Apple was very heavily pushing the Xserve. Of course you can't turn it sideways and mount it in a standard rack. You want a rackable Mac, you buy the Xserve. It was designed overlarge on purpose. The Mac Pro is essentially the same case as the G5, so even though the Xserve has now died, you still can't rack a Mac Pro sideways. You can, however, rack either a G5 or Pro vertically.
While I loved Jobs vision and ability to raise my stock price, he had a very love/hate relationship with corporate America. Jobs didn't much care about the success of the Enterprise. Tim Cook, however, is very Enterprise friendly and has been not only talking to corporate America for years, but also to Jobs about the need to corner the Enterprise market. We can probably expect another rack friendly Mac sometime in the near future. Provided Cook doesn't feel Jobs pissed Enterprise off so much that they simply won't buy it out of spite. EdB On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Ugly generalities in both directions. > I can't see how a Mac would make my life any easier but be that as it may, > I have a pretty easy life already. > Anyway I've always contended the workstation class machines from HP are > the W123s of the computer world. The XW8200 on my desk at home has been > editing video for me for almost 2 years now. Prior to that it lived in a > classroom of ours in Madison, WI for ~5 years.Its contemporary is the Mac > G5 dual processor, liquid cooled POS. > Ever try to put a G5 or Mac Pro in a 19" (standard size for everybody else > in the world) rack? You can't, they're too big. Apple's answer? Cut the > ears off the case with a saw, or send it to this company we use that will > laser cut it. Turnaround on the laser cut? A month or two... > Sounds more like a Triumph than a Mercedes to me. A "triumph of form over > function". > -Curt > > > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:31:20 -0600 > From: Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Bought a new computer monitor > Message-ID: <a06240814cb4d0f85a882@[192.168.1.51]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > >I bought a Mac because it made my life easier. Not because I was trying > >further my alignment with any causes. > > Yep. While apple evangelists in the early days were notably > liberal/socialist, and the company still has very similar leanings, > [is albore still on the board?] one of the evangelists is hardly > leftist or socialist, Rush Limbaugh. > > Apple products work very well, and are well designed. > > A Mercedes works very well, and is well designed. > > Winblows boxes are like GM products. Lots of em, they work > reasonably well, are often ugly, and don't have the sleek design > detail you might find in a Mercedes Benz. They don't have the long > service life of a Mac. > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- "Das beste oder nichts." - *Gottlieb Daimler* _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
