[cobalt-users] Re: cobalt-users digest, Vol 1 #4422 - 17 msgs

[Step Firth <step@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/5/02 6:47 pm, "cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Checkout the Apple specs and you will see the price is VERY VERY VERY
> reasonable for what you get...
> I just double checked the Raq550 specs, this "new top of the line"
> Sun/Cobalt looks like a joke when compared to the Apple Xserve...


Well, it does. I had not seen the 550 prices when I came across the xServe.
Problem is, I just need something that works out of the box, with a
processor faster than a Raq3/4. The 550 was mooted as a new 'low-cost'
solution, to me low-cost means around a grand (ukp) or 1500 dollars.

The apple is very high spec, and I am tempted seriously, as we currently run
darwin quicktime streaming server on a generic linux box, cos the raqs can't
cope, but that is another 1u space we have to buy. The xServe (I still
prefer Apple Raq) is built for that job.

Step