Re: [cobalt-users] Raq550 vs Xserve

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 I've been using the production model of Mac OS Xserve - in beta for about
2 months at one of my client locations - it uses the standard OS X server
control panels / Mac's GUI but also has a terminal window for those of us
who hate cute little GUI's.

The education/academic price is 2499 and retail to the gen pub is 2999, so
far, I'd give it an OK but not great.  The price is high for what you get,
but I have some clients that are dying to spend the money once I determine
if our company will support that upgrade path because they love Mac and
are willing to pay.  I'd still much rather configure a 1U rack redhat box
for 500 but I am somewhat biased toward practicality over cute form
factor.

As to whomever gets into the G4vsPIII ghz microdifferences "crushing one
or the other" most webhosters etc. never run software that can take
advantage of anything above a ghz so it's a moot point - hw reliability in
general, memory, and drive space and how much expense and hassle or lack
thereof,  is it to get the product supported or not , are the pertinent
specs to be concerned about.

That's my 2 cents....

Cecile

Dan Kriwitsky wrote:

> > FireWire    n/a                     three ports
> > Graphins    n/a                     ATI PCI Graphics card
> >                                     optional ATI Raedon 8500 AGP 4x
> >
> > The above specs speak for themselves... Lets not forget the
> > 1GHz PPC G4 processor will crush the 1.26GHz PentIII
> > anytime... (no need of comparing with the 1GHz P3/256kb L2
> > cache version of the Raq550)
> >
> > A single processor Xserve with the above specs and 256MB RAM
> > and 1x 60GB drive is priced at $2999... Lets see what Sun
> > does with its pricing
> >
>
> Since we're comparing the Apple and Cobalt, I guess this is sort of on
> topic now.
> I couldn't find any information about a GUI control panel for users on
> the http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/web.html page. Let's not forget
> the cost of adding something like Plesk to set this up for multiple
> users as ways of adding and managing virtual sites.
> --
> Dan Kriwitsky
> 
>
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