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I've never used Mac OS X Server so can't comment on its worth, however... based on the hardware specs and the prices, I can't work out how they ever sold a sing
by corin_ 16y ago
I've never used Mac OS X Server so can't comment on its worth, however... based on the hardware specs and the prices, I can't work out how they ever sold a single one (except to huge lovers of Apple who wanted to look geeky and hip at the same time by having one of these in their home.)
edit: If the price was only a bit higher than what I'd expect to pay for those specs with 5-10tb storage in it, then I'd probably be ok buying it as a home storage device, much the same as I'm ok buying an iPod as an MP3 player. But there's a point where "sexiness markup" becomes "double the price and slap on a bit more".
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- cmelbye 16y agoHaving an Xserve with Mac OS X in a company that uses Macs because it all integrates and it would provide email, chat, directory, wiki, and other enterprisey stuff. I've also seen universities with full racks of them to use for distributed computing (I believe using the Xgrid utility.)
- rryyan 16y agoJust because it's interesting -- The University of Illinois has a cluster of 768 G5 Xserves: http://www.cse.illinois.edu/turing/ http://www.cse.illinois.edu/turing/. It doesn't appear to actually run OS X though (Fedora instead).
- tvon 16y agoA 1U server generally doesn't make any sense in the home.
- stcredzero 16y agoSome people used to put shoulder straps on them to carry them to LAN parties.
- sjs 16y agoCan you fit a decent graphics card in 1U? I guess it all depends on the games being played.
- stcredzero 16y agoRight angle slot adaptor.
- fluidcruft 16y agoMac OS X Server running Open Directory worked well for us instead of running an Active Directory for integrating Solaris, Linux, Windows and MacOS clients. Unfortunately, Apple pretty much pulled the rug out from under us a while ago, the system administrator was replaced with a Windows zealot and now nothing really works at all.