Morning Again,

Ah Ha refreshed Apple store. Entry level is now at $3199, and memory $525.

On the side of discontinued, I think Apple could be moving towards mac 
mini-servers, as this is the market for there server release. Put a few in the 
network and they perform extraordinarily, and this would be sufficient for most 
design studios, offices, education institutions to support an OS X Lab or Two 
whom already have other backbones in place.

Besides this great effort of iPad and iPhone to actually connect to an Exchange 
server over there own in house server has many asking questions. Although this 
does raise eyebrows about Apples plans for Enterprise and further support 
within this realm for own devices considering uptake of said devices. Media 
companies could be scratching heads with FCP server and Xsan a small problem, 
hopefully SJ pulls Rabbit out of hat for these, although I think acceptance 
into other servers with software could be inevitable.

Cheers!
`RobD....

On 07Nov2010, at 2:39 am, Rob Davies wrote:

> Morning,
> 
> No need to add OS X standard as OS X server is a standard install of OS X 
> with the Daemons accessible to the uninitiated and some administrative 
> software.
> 
> So it still behaves as per OS X just a bit more fruit to access if required, 
> as OS X standard can be employed to behave as OS X server if initiated.
> 
> Save the bucks, but a catch must be had somewhere?
> 
> Cheers!
> RobD...
> 
> On 05Nov2010, at 10:44 pm, Daniel Kerr wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I notice they've now added the "Mac Pro Server" version to the Apple Store
>> as well.
>> 
>> Though,..am I missing something here:-
>> (OK,..here goes). From the Apple Online Store.
>> <http://www.apple.com/au/store> MacPro
>> 
>> Quad-Core
>> One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processor
>> 3GB (three 1GB) memory
>> 1TB hard drive
>> SuperDrive
>> ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5
>> A$ 3,499.00
>> 
>> If you configure this to be the same as the Server model on the store with
>> 8GB RAM and the second Hard Drive it comes in at $4224
>> 
>> Server
>> One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processor
>> 8GB (four 2GB) memory
>> Two 1TB hard drives
>> SuperDrive
>> Mac OS X Server unlimited-client license
>> ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5
>> A$ 3,799.00
>> 
>> Now if you wanted to run Snow Leopard Standard on it, you'd buy that for
>> either $39 (although that's the upgrade from Leopard version) or the full
>> Mac Box Set so as to get iLife and iWork as well. That's $169.
>> Total $3968.
>> 
>> So,..by my thinking,.you buy the server plus MacBox Set for $3968. Save $256
>> AND get a full OSX Server unlimited client license.
>> 
>> Again,..I ask,..am I missing something there??? Lol :)
>> (I only just threw that together,..so I could have overlooked something and
>> I used all the pricing straight from the Apple online store RRP pricing of
>> course)
>> 
>> Kind Regards
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 5/11/10 10:00 PM, "Craig Bruce" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Know many companies still running these awesome machines.. Get them while 
>>> they
>>> are still avail.. I'm still rocking some pre intel Xserves with no problems!
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On 05/11/2010, at 7:24 PM, lem1 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Apple has announced the end of the Xserve, sad as I quite liked the 
>>>> systems.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.apple.com/xserve/resources.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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