Tom Yager on the new Xserve

did someone say yager? as in Jägermeister?

I'm happy they finally added dual power supplies, and put the video on board so that i can run the H/W RAID card + a fiber channel card; xserve's are finally becoming real servers. Hears hoping they also got rid of that silly "server shell is the rack hardware" design idea, that is freaking dumb and annoys me with my current xserves.

Edward, the delay is very simply, "It's not November yet."

So, technically, Apple could still make good on their "Coming in October" billing and make a lot of people really happy.

I've been pestering our inside sales team at Apple cause I want to replace my three XServes ASAP. They consistently say they'll know about it at exactly the same time it's announced on Apple.com.

DRAT!

Is the reason for the Xeon XServe delays any ( still ) unknown huge buyer like was Virginia Tech?

Tom Yager could do with hiring a proof reader...

Boy I hope "coming in October" meant October of *this* year. I know Apple has until 11:59pm on October 31 to meet their advertising of "October," but I have a project for which I need an XServe and I can't buy one of any kind. The old G5 one would have been fine, but instead Apple leaves us out to dry for two months with *no* XServes at all. Grrrr...

TUAW is hosted with the rest of the WIN family in some remote datacenter with security and nasty dogs. Sadly, I don't think we'll be using Xserves anytime soon.

And Engadget doesn't hate Apple, they just don't LOOOOVE Apple. :)

Is it just me, or would TUAW run excellent on one of those bad boys?

Hey Scott, out of interest, is your site on like a global Weblogs, INC. server? Perhaps a suggestion to whose in charge about the XServes.

Oh wait, god of Weblogs Engadget hates Apple. :)

I was looking at the specs for these - I don't know about everything else, but the new option of 15k RPM, SAS connected drives instead of the slow-ass 7,200 RPM SATA shit really made it for me. We were getting ready to buy a batch of servers; and I love mac, but we do web work; and database serving just isn't feasible on anything other than SCSI - SAS in particular looks really cool, I've never worked with it before however.