Tom Yager reviews the new Xserve

The Xserve, the jewel in Apple's enterprise crown. We all know that Apple missed their target ship date, but that's ok if you believe what Tom Yager is saying. His two part review (part one, part two) paints a picture of a near perfect 1U server that is more than capable of handling most jobs. Tom does warn that if you are just looking at the list of parts that make up the Xserve you won't see the full picture. As with all Macs the Xserve is more than its components, it is also the software that is running on it. All Xserves come with Mac OS X Server 10.4 Unlimited-Client Edition at no extra cost, and once you power it on this thing is ready to go.

Now, Tom mentions that this isn't a perfect server and if you're looking only at numbers you can build on for yourself at a cheaper price, but you'll be missing out on all the nice touches: the OS, the mix and match hard drives, the large number of Firewire and USB ports, and so much more.

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Brady J. Frey

We run 3 of the G5's - and I have a love hate relationship with them... but only on the software, the hardware has been relatively perfect. So, as far as we go, we may not be interested until Leopard comes out - or if we decide to jump ship and install Linux or Unix on here. Which we've debated for years now; that GUI does some serious mishandling on poorly installed open source systems, I have numerous locked files to keep it away!

October 27 2006 at 6:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

pixelslut

"forget xserves, WHERE IS THE NEW iPOD SHUFFLE?"

Theres so much wrong with that statement i dont even know where to begin...

October 27 2006 at 12:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Will it still have those 2 big holes in the front? I thought that was just to cool the hot G5's, are they still needed for intel chips? 4 drive xserves rocked.

October 27 2006 at 1:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

niclet

Mmm, no word about the noise of the machine. I know, 'strange comment', but since I'm interested to dedicate one for musical applications, the level of dB is a crucial factor. I presume I must wait to see one in store when released.

October 26 2006 at 9:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bryce

forget xserves, WHERE IS THE NEW iPOD SHUFFLE? on apple's website it says they ship october, and now its almost november! I have called my local Apple Store 2 times already and they never give me a date, "O, they will be in a week or two, we don't really know..."

October 26 2006 at 6:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply