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Xserve Discounts - Clearance?

Thursday June 26, 2003 9:16 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
rjstanford notes that Apple is running a special for registered ADC developers (Select or above) for 25% off the purchase of two or more Xserve / Xserve RAID systems. These discounts don't count against your normal hardware discounts. This special runs until the end of July.



Due to the recent introduction of the G5 PowerMac, many have speculated that Xserve's are next.

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Nermal
113 months ago
It makes sense for the Xserve to move to G5, especially for serving things like dynamic web pages. It'll be good to see this happen.
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illumin8
113 months ago

Originally posted by Macrumors
Due to the recent introduction of the G5 PowerMac, many have speculated that Xserve's are next.

2GB of RAM max in that Xserve doesn't sound quite so good now that 8GB can be had in the G5... IMO, this was always the biggest limitation of the Xserve... 2GB limit on memory. Servers need lots of RAM.
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Freg3000
113 months ago
G5 xServes at MacWorld Paris, or whatever European city it is in. Mark my words. ( I actually have no idea-just an educated guess.)
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TeraRWM
113 months ago
http://a400.g.akamai.net/7/400/51/e2614e0d0f949d/www.apple.com/macosx/panther/images/xcode_cluster_062303.gif



Notice anything special?

Found this on the XCode page halfway down...

EDIT: whoops...I guess I've never seen the cluster version of XServe before..
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MacAztec
113 months ago
Theres nothing wrong with that, thats just the xServer cluster model from Apple.
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ryan
113 months ago

Originally posted by MacAztec
Theres nothing wrong with that, thats just the xServer cluster model from Apple.

But compare it to this cluster image on Apple's website. The Xserves in the post above clearly have more ventilation on front.
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fraggle
113 months ago

Originally posted by ryan
But compare it to this cluster image on Apple's website. The Xserves in the post above clearly have more ventilation on front.

The picture you mention is from a rack of "normal" XServes while the other pictures show a rack of Cluster Nodes. Check a larger pictures on the website, they have only one drive on the left and more room for ventilation.
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ryan
113 months ago

Originally posted by fraggle
The picture you mention is from a rack of "normal" XServes while the other pictures show a rack of Cluster Nodes. Check a larger pictures on the website, they have only one drive on the left and more room for ventilation.

Ah, interesting, thanks.
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BigJayhawk
113 months ago
Gee, since the xServes are now "so cheap" why don't we just buy the following for the MacRumors Folding@Home Team?!?

Now THAT should turn out some numbers!!!
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Alexander
113 months ago
Nononono, you should be buying the first one -- a rack of (mostly) cluster nodes. They have the same processors, but are cheaper because they don't have as much of the other fun stuff.

Get it? :)
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