badr
05-14-2002, 03:02 PM
www.apple.com/xserve
holly smokes, this thing packs a punch
holly smokes, this thing packs a punch
 | View Full Version : new apple servers! WOW Avail 05-14-2002, 03:06 PM Xserve offers four hot-plug Ultra ATA/100 7200rpm drives, and can be configured with up to 480GB of storage per 1U server Wow. avara 05-14-2002, 03:08 PM These are the most powerful 1U servers I've seen. Pricey though, but then again a comparable server from IBM costs about the same. This should have gone into the dedicated forum, IMHO. ;) justinF 05-14-2002, 03:30 PM pretty tempting........ they are very nice Sainthax 05-14-2002, 03:46 PM $2,999.00 1 GHz PowerPC G4 256K L2 cache & 2MB L3 cache 256MB DDR SDRAM @ 266MHz 60GB Apple Drive Module CD-ROM drive ATI Graphics Card Dual Gigabit Ethernet Two USB ports Three FireWire ports $3,999.00 Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 256K L2 cache & 2MB L3 cache per processor 512MB DDR SDRAM @ 266MHz 60GB Apple Drive Module CD-ROM drive ATI Graphics Card Dual Gigabit Ethernet Two USB ports Three FireWire ports $7,799.00 Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 256K L2 cache & 2MB L3 cache per processor 2.0GB DDR SDRAM @ 266MHz 4x120GB Apple Drive Modules CD-ROM drive ATI Graphics Card Dual Gigabit Ethernet Two USB ports Three FireWire ports AppleCare Premium Support Plan I like the monitoring software :cool: avara 05-14-2002, 04:01 PM Me want! :drool: (crud... we need a drooling smiley!) rbro 05-14-2002, 06:17 PM Whoa! Those are COOOOL! I am a HUGE Mac/Apple fan...I just wonder if they can really expect to compete in the 1U rack server space..... Get-Hosted.com 05-14-2002, 06:43 PM Nice! Wonder how hot a 480GB machine runs with 2 Procs? These might appeal to those Mac/Apple advocates. Most will do whatever they can to use Apple, so this is just one more thing they can say they're superior at. :) roly 05-14-2002, 06:45 PM mmm... i want one, just load mac os x then add yummy apache mmm... Dogma 05-14-2002, 06:59 PM Originally posted by rbro I just wonder if they can really expect to compete in the 1U rack server space..... I think so. People that I've talked to have been really happy with mac servers, the main problem was that Apple didn't offer a 1U computer, only the big G4 box. Are any hosts offering this? rbro 05-14-2002, 07:09 PM Originally posted by Dogma I think so. People that I've talked to have been really happy with mac servers, the main problem was that Apple didn't offer a 1U computer, only the big G4 box. Are any hosts offering this? Probably not yet. Now I think OSX Server is essentially FreeBSD and I know it runs Apache, but does that mean other apps compiled for UNIX, various CGI scripts, Miva software, Control Panels like Plesk, Cpanel, Ensim etc. will run on OSX Server, or would they need to be recompiled specifically for OSX? Because I think that would be a major stumbling block..... mkaufman 05-14-2002, 08:54 PM Wow, I'm really starting to like the Apple products...too bad they're too expensive and dominate the whole .. Apple market (if you know what I mean....you gotta buy an apple computer to use their os etc :( ) hbouma 05-14-2002, 09:08 PM Don't they have Linux for the G4 PPC line? Although that wouldn't solve the driver issue for the hot hardware on these macs... Hal Mike the newbie 05-14-2002, 09:14 PM Originally posted by hbouma Don't they have Linux for the G4 PPC line? Although that wouldn't solve the driver issue for the hot hardware on these macs... Not Linux but... http://www.openbsd.org/plat.html baileysemt123 05-15-2002, 12:38 AM I thought YellowDog could be run on Mac hardware. OMG, I have gotta hit the lottery... this thing is unbelievable!!!!!!!!! :cool: :D Bailey avara 05-15-2002, 08:36 AM Originally posted by baileysemt123 I thought YellowDog could be run on Mac hardware. OMG, I have gotta hit the lottery... this thing is unbelievable!!!!!!!!! :cool: :D Bailey SuSE Linux runs on Mac hardware, and I believe Mandrake does too (from the Mandrake site: "Mandrake Linux 8.2 for PPC - Fire up your Mac! The most up-to-date and easy to use PowerPC Linux distribution is available."). Though you'd have to be silly to run Linux instead of OS X. ;) badr 05-15-2002, 11:30 AM linuxes for PPC: yellowdog suse mandrake linuxppc coming soon: redhat but why? os X is freeBSD with all apps you could need. most of them have been recompiled already or you can DL the developper tools and compile them yourself osX is the best of both worlds with an apple GUI and unix under the hood. baileysemt123 05-16-2002, 02:34 AM Agreed! I run OS X here on my desktop (an "old" B&W G3 w/ 384 ram) and I absolutely love it. :love: However, when searching entries on the Apple TIL, I find that WebObjects is dog-slow... is it always so clumsy, or is Apple's own use of it just overloading it? I run on a cable modem and I nearly go out of my mind waiting for searches and articles... So I guess my impression of WebObjects isn't real positive. Is this well-founded? :D Bailey |