Along with the new Mac Pro Apple introduced some swanky new Xserves that have me drooling. Scheduled to be available in October these things sport 2 Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 processors (up to 3 Ghz), up to 32 Gigs of ECC FB-DIMM memory, 1.33GHz frontside bus per processor, 4MB shared L2 cache per processor, and two eight-lane PCI Express expansion slots. These things can also have up to 2.25 TB of onboard storage. They also have redundant power supplies (that was the sound of many sys admins rejoicing).
The Xserve also boasts having the first Intel ready version of Tiger server (you get an unlimited client version with an Xserve).
All of this for a starting price of $2,999.
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8-07-2006 @ 3:06PM
MySchizoBuddy said...
So its all done now. NO Ipods, no Iphone?
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8-07-2006 @ 3:16PM
MacWebHosting said...
To #1 - It's a Developers Conference - I wasn't expecting to see any of that announced today - not the right venue for it.
Now, on to that sexy new beast - I want it, and I want it now.
The new feature set of Leopard Server also looks pretty cool, ... finally GROUP CALENDARING, and a CALDAV Server for us. Yay! :)
Now to just "Click" and fwd time to Spring next Year, although I have a sneaky suspicion that it might be realeased in Jan '07!
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8-07-2006 @ 4:34PM
Dan Bedford said...
"They also have redundant power supplies (that was the sound of many sys admins rejoicing)."
You forgot to mention Light-Out Management!!! This is HUGE! Turn on a completely powered down Xserve from a remote location?!?! Finally!
And I agree with post #2.. I think that Apple is just giving them enough coverage to be sure they release either on schedule or early, so this way they can shove it in M$'s face if they announce they'll be shipping early. I give it a 65% chance that Leopard will be either shipping at Macworld SF 07 or soon after.
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8-07-2006 @ 9:12PM
alin Steglinski said...
meh who cares about ipods and iphones. SERVERS RAWK
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