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Apple confirms pair of Nehalem Xserves
APPLE HAS QUIETLY LAUNCHED TWO NEW rack-mounted servers based on Intel's Nehalem architecture.
The £2,400 version has a single quad core 2.26GHz Xeon processor, 3GB of RAM and a single 160GB SATA drive in its most basic configuration. Its £2880 big brother gets 2 CPUs.
Both can be built to order with up to 2.93GHz CPUs, 12GB of RAM, 3TB of HD capacity and a 128GB SSD boot drive which doesn't take up a drive slot, although buying any of these upgrades from Apple will cost you an arm and a leg and can no doubt be found considerably cheaper elsewhere. Basic configurations are shipping immediately but some custom options could increase your waiting time up to three months according to Apple.
There are a bundle of other options and upgrades available including RAID cards, PCI gigabit ethernet and fibre channel cards, hot-swappable power supplies and external RAID storage subsystems.
Just for laughs we went into the Buy Now section of the Apple Store and stacked up an 8-core Xserve with every option available (not including the external RAID array, additional software or support) and this is what we got!
This one really isn't for the faint hearted, but Nick Farrel would probably have found a way to use it as a stick to beat Apple with so here goes. This is an 8-core Xserve with every option maxed out including £23,900 worth of software support and a £15,000 7.2TB SAS RAID module. We wonder if they offer discounts for multiple orders? We'll have six. µ
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See if you're going to even attempt to make out that Apple overcharges... please state current examples of another big vendor like Dell or HP which feature EXACTLY the same technical specifications. I think you'll find you get what you pay for with Apple. You are not being overcharged. It's getting embarrassing the number of people who are so ignorant they can't compare like-for-like. I'm not an Apple fan boy. Just a modern day open-minded IT guy who makes sure he knows the facts before making sweeping ignorant statements.
"This is the way Intel wants to beat AMD?"
Yeah.
Intel's 2 CPU's can take on AMD's 4 CPU's, see the benches. And Nehalem MP is coming out soon, so AMD is dead.
Intel has nothing to match AMD.
Dual CPU, what a joke....
This is the way Intel wants to beat AMD?
With just this?
AMD puts 8 CPU's (NOT CORES!) on a board....
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