Actually, Apple quit selling rack-mount hardware about 3 years ago when they discontinued the Xserve.
Michael On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a friend who's putting together a computer for a local company. > He > > needs it in about a week, and has to be able to walk up somewhere and > plunk > > down a credit card locally to buy it. > > > > He's looking for a Core i7, 8 GB or more RAM and a few TB of > > enterprise-grade hard disks. Some kind of reasonable graphics card. A > rack > > mount enclosure is preferred. > > > > I have no idea why he can't order it online, but he says he can't. I > know > > of no high performance computer companies around town, but I'm not > shopping > > for computers so I'd have no reason to know. > > > > Can anyone offer a suggestion for my friend? > > Only thing I can think of would be to hit up the Apple Store. That > may or may not work; while Apple certainly does sell rack mount > servers, I have no idea if they keep them in stock in the local > stores. Also, I don't know if he's willing to pay the significant > price jump involved with Apple hardware. It is, however, the only > place I can think of that would conceivably stock it (and yes, I > checked MacAuthority's website, just to be sure). > > It's really too bad Fry's Electronics hasn't built a Nashville store; > maybe with Google's arrival, Fry's will make an appearance here. > > -Tilghman > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. [email protected] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
