Xserve Refresh?
Any additional reports of similar Xserve orders would be appreciated.
Xserves are really starting to lag behind the PowerMacs. Especially if the PMs are supposed to be getting a speed bump next month.
Currently, Xserves are dual-2.3, while PowerMacs are dual-2.7.
Last I heard, dual-core PPCs max at 2.5 GHz right now, but four of those would collectively be 10 GHz, compared to the Xserve's current "mere" 4.6 GHz.
Where do people think the xServe falls into the transition to x86? At the beginning or towards the end?
Towards the later half of the switchover I would say.2x 2.5 ghz processors does NOT mean they are equal to a 5ghz processor. That would only be the case in the perfect world where all instructions could be executed in parallel and already knew how to be divided up. For example... to preform (A*B)+7.... you have to finish multiplying A*B before you can add 7... you cant do both at the same time... (wow that was a bad example... but still works)
Of course, which is why I said "collectively" (just adding up the GHz). OTOH, two slow processors can often result in more speed than one fast one, since a big process will hog all of a single processor, but a dual machine still has another processor free to do other things.
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