[rescue] Xserve

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue May 14 14:50:36 CDT 2002


On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:44:04PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:59:56PM -0400, Big Endian wrote:
> > Umm.... loaded Xserver (dualie 1ghz, 2gb ram, 4x120gb disk, RADEON 
> > AGP card) is $8k.  V100s(500mhz,128mb ram,40gb disk) cost $1k.
> 
> Why the hell do you want a Radeon card in a RACKMOUNT SERVER?

Because they are also being sold as workstations.  Possible uses, studios
that need the space.  Distributed real time rendering for video walls and
caves.  People who don't like the look of the G4 desktops.  I'm sure others
can come up with more uses.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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